LivMASpeechie Posted November 29, 2018 Share Posted November 29, 2018 Hey there! So I may have made an error when requesting letters of rec for grad school... most of the schools im applying to only have a slot for 3 recommenders to upload, but I ended up asking 4 people to write me one and all 4 have agreed to. I don't want to make a bad impression and have to eliminate one of them after I already asked. I was wondering if anyone knew of a way to submit the 4th one anyways even though there is not a slot for it on the application itself? Do you think they would read it if I mailed it to their admissions office? Just curious! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Warelin Posted November 29, 2018 Share Posted November 29, 2018 44 minutes ago, LivMASpeechie said: I was wondering if anyone knew of a way to submit the 4th one anyways even though there is not a slot for it on the application itself? Do you think they would read it if I mailed it to their admissions office? Just curious! Unless a school asks for 4 letters of recommendation, I wouldn't give them 4 letters of recommendation. Admissions committes often have more than enough to handle. What I recommend doing though is dividing the work between the 4 professors. This will allow you to use all 4 professors. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LivMASpeechie Posted November 29, 2018 Author Share Posted November 29, 2018 Thank you so much for your input! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
smarieSLP2b Posted November 30, 2018 Share Posted November 30, 2018 Does CSDCAS allow you to select within the application portal? If there was a way you can eliminate one that would be good. If not, I wouldn't try to mail in an extra one. Regardless I don't think it's a huge deal whether they get 4 or 3. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rezzy S. Posted December 1, 2018 Share Posted December 1, 2018 I made a similar mistake. I'm just going to be very apologetic and say I misunderstood the requirements and asked for one more than I needed. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AlwaysaFalcon Posted December 3, 2018 Share Posted December 3, 2018 When I applied using CSDCAS I was able to add a fourth recommender. Personally I think it helped my chances but it's ultimately up to you, I see others points as well. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kamtea Posted December 3, 2018 Share Posted December 3, 2018 When I emailed CSDCAS, they told me there is no way to choose 3 out of 4, or 2 out of 4 (if your program only wants 2). All letters will be sent to all programs apparently. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sweetroll Posted December 4, 2018 Share Posted December 4, 2018 @AlwaysaFalcon I am planning on doing this, however all my schools ask for 2 professor evaluations and a third one of either another professor or a supervisor. I have 2 professors evaluate me and 3 professional references (school pyschologist and two speech pathologist). Will the schools read all of the letters? or will they pick random 3 evaluations? Im worried they will pick randomly and it wont be from my professors. Any thoughts? Thanks! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LivMASpeechie Posted December 6, 2018 Author Share Posted December 6, 2018 On 11/30/2018 at 1:10 PM, smarieSLP2b said: Does CSDCAS allow you to select within the application portal? If there was a way you can eliminate one that would be good. If not, I wouldn't try to mail in an extra one. Regardless I don't think it's a huge deal whether they get 4 or 3. CSDCAS gave me 6 slots, so I am uploading all 4 to there! All my other schools only have 3 slots so that is why I was considering sending them in separately. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LivMASpeechie Posted December 6, 2018 Author Share Posted December 6, 2018 On 12/3/2018 at 7:55 PM, Vortega said: @AlwaysaFalcon I am planning on doing this, however all my schools ask for 2 professor evaluations and a third one of either another professor or a supervisor. I have 2 professors evaluate me and 3 professional references (school pyschologist and two speech pathologist). Will the schools read all of the letters? or will they pick random 3 evaluations? Im worried they will pick randomly and it wont be from my professors. Any thoughts? Thanks! I would say to call the grad schools to see what their process is! That way you know for sure Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AlwaysaFalcon Posted January 15, 2019 Share Posted January 15, 2019 On 12/3/2018 at 6:55 PM, Vortega said: @AlwaysaFalcon I am planning on doing this, however all my schools ask for 2 professor evaluations and a third one of either another professor or a supervisor. I have 2 professors evaluate me and 3 professional references (school pyschologist and two speech pathologist). Will the schools read all of the letters? or will they pick random 3 evaluations? Im worried they will pick randomly and it wont be from my professors. Any thoughts? Thanks! I honestly don't know the answer for sure. LIke @LivMASpeechie said I"m sure it wouldn't hurt to call the department and ask. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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