Too Many LORs?

[medballer2010]

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So I ended up receiving 8 total LORs, I didnt intend to get that many but alot of schools were asking for different things to satisfy what they wanted. In the end, I ended up sending all 8 to every school I applied to. Even though they are all good recs, do you think that this will end up hurting me because it is probably more than schools wanted?

 

[SportingMD54]

So I ended up receiving 8 total LORs, I didnt intend to get that many but alot of schools were asking for different things to satisfy what they wanted. In the end, I ended up sending all 8 to every school I applied to. Even though they are all good recs, do you think that this will end up hurting me because it is probably more than schools wanted?

I think I have heard of others doing this and being just fine. I would have personally read the reqs for each school and picked only the ones they wanted, but I think Shemarty did what you did and it didn't hurt her. You might PM her and she if she has anything to add.

 

[johncalvin]

My committee required 5+ letters before they would interview me and write a committee statement.

For a friend last year, this same committee actually attached all 7 letters to the composite statement.

But I think adcoms usually don't care how many letters are attached to a committee statement. Sending 8 on your own, though....

I don't think it'll hurt you per se. For example, they may only look 2 random science and 1 non-science. They (obviously) won't bother to selectively only consider the best ones.

 

[SpaceDementia]

As far as I know, schools care more about how many packets they receive. So if you have several letters in a letter packet sent by your school committee, then it won't be quite as big of an issue.

If you're sending them individually, then yeah, I definitely wouldn't send more than 6.

 

[Mattabet]

I think ideally you wouldn't send 8 LoRs, but I doubt that the extras would hurt your application. I think it's more likely that they're likely to get ignored, because they're not going to want to read through 8 pages of redundant 'this kid is nice' prose. I doubt they would be vindictive and actually punish you for too many though.