Asking a prof to write a letter not for this school

[Ideal Impulse]

The background info: I am a postbac in Speech and Hearing Science, currently attending at what is my top choice for graduate school. I am also applying to several other schools. I talked to the graduate advisor in the department at my top choice, who recommended that two of my letters come from professors, and one from someone who can give the admissions committee a fuller picture of me (volunteer supervisor, boss, etc). So that's what I am doing for that school.

However, three of the schools I am applying to strongly recommend three professorial letters. I am planning on asking a prof. at my current school; I've taken two classes with her, and although they were both enormous lectures, I did very well in them and often met with her during her office hours. She has basically agreed to write them, but we are meeting next week to discuss it in more detail.

However, is it weird to ask her NOT to write the letter for my top choice school, which is also the school she teaches at?

[LJK]

Do you have the option of sending in 4 recommendations for this particular school? Or any of them really, since you will have 4 letter writers anyway. If its an option, let the school decide whether to read the 4th recommendation or not.

Actually telling her that she is your third ranked academic recommendation would be tough. Are the other two academic recommendations from another school? You could play it as wanting their recommendation letters as well as the non-academic one that was recommended to be included as the 3 since she is able to verbally put in a good word for you.