garbus222 wrote:
I do the same what Markkm does. It won't be perfect rec, but I think it'll still be way better than 7 individual recs. I expect my recommenders to put effort into preparing 1 good letter. With 7 they'll just get annoyed and I suspect that when they prepare 4th one, they will be totally fed up.
I read somewhere that schools won't punish you if the rec is not perfect. They apparently realize that recommenders are busy people.
On BW forum people say that each letter should be written individually, but I think it's a bit exaggerated. At least I cannot do so, knowing schedule of my recommenders. I'm taking a bit of risk, but that's life.
garbus222 wrote:
I do the same what Markkm does. It won't be perfect rec, but I think it'll still be way better than 7 individual recs. I expect my recommenders to put effort into preparing 1 good letter. With 7 they'll just get annoyed and I suspect that when they prepare 4th one, they will be totally fed up.
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If it's not perfect (i.e. doesn't cover the point, skips question), the school is going to think recommender doesn't care too much for the applicant. It is very HARD to have a 1 vanilla letter that can be used for your schools. Perhaps if you think your recommener will be annoyed,, you should pick a different one.