how many is too many- LOR

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yorkiepoo

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How many letters of recommendation are you sending? If you are doing a committee letter, how many are you sending to your committee? how many is too many?
 
yorkiepoo said:
How many letters of recommendation are you sending? If you are doing a committee letter, how many are you sending to your committee? how many is too many?
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AADSAS may only allow 4, but you can submit more to schools directly.

I think 3-5 is good.
6 is pushing it
7 is too many
 
Make sure you have enough to cover the specific requirements for each school before you apply. Some schools have uncommon requests - like Loma Linda - if you won't be able to get the LORs needed then you can save some $$ up front.
 
If you know you will be able to get very strong letters, I'd submit 4. Any more seems like it would be too many. At least: 1bio, 1chem, 1 dentist, and maybe a prehealth advisor, another teacher, someone you have worked for or did research under (just something more personal). The first 3 covers most of the dental school's requirements for letters. Otherwise I think it would be overkill.
 
My school is sending a committee letter and I submitted 6 letters to them: 2 dentists, 2 science, 1 research, 1 non-science...each person that isn't a science prof knows me really really well...so I'm not sure if I'll send all 6 or just 5...still deciding...
-ld
 
i talked to one school that required 2) science 1) dental. they randomly select the fewest LORs that meets their requirement. it saved me the trouble of getting a non-science letter
 
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