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I've spent an ungodly amount of time thinking about this. While LORs are obviously not the most important part of an application, I've been trying very hard to make each component of my app follow some kind of consistent theme or thread.

While I have my standard two prof LORs, I also potentially have two more LORs, one from my boss who I worked closely with on wrongful conviction while in college and another is my boss currently who can speak to other aspects of my leadership/analytical/critical thinking skills. I would go into more detail, but the basically each of these additional two LORs are tied into some part of the rest of my app.

My question is 4 too many LORs? I was thinking of submitting the two profs and then one more, but I feel like I'm missing out on something important from someone who knows me very well and can speak highly of my abilities that will be useful in law school. On the other hand, it also looks like I'm compensating for something. Thoughts?

4 is too many. 2 is the norm, generally speaking you don't want to have a third unless there is good reason to. Read the instructions for each school closely - some really do cap it at 2 or 3. One of the worst things you can do is apply w/o following their instructions. I've heard about candidates with T14 marks getting rejected at 2nd tier schools because they didn't follow the application instructions.

I don't think 3 is too many if you're out of school for any amount of time, because then it would be 2 old academic ones which are required to be academic. And then one recent employer one

Troianii wrote:I've heard about candidates with T14 marks getting rejected at 2nd tier schools because they didn't follow the application instructions.

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Apparently the max number of LoR is not an issue, because LSAC doesn't let you assign more letters if you hit the school's cap.