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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]OP what school is differentiating between whether a student is entitled to two letters of recommendation vs one? How do they make this decision? Only school I can think of is SJC which has a separate college counseling team for their scholars program. Either way, doesn't seem like a good policy.[/quote]

I've never heard of a parent complain about this at SJC. Had kids go through scholars and non-scholars. None of them had issues getting into college.[/quote]

Did your non-scholars kid get two letters of recommendation? Asking because I have a kid interested in SJC and I don't think they will be eligible for scholars.[/quote]
New policy is that only scholars get 2 unless it is a REQUIREMENT for a school. 
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I get that they don't want to pile on teachers' workloads, but seems like a strategy not well-suited to a private school that prides itself on getting all graduates into college and touts the amount of scholarship money graduates are offered every year.[/quote]

DP: Having been through it twice at other schools now, I'm guessing you haven't had a kid apply recently? If colleges only want you to submit one LOR, you should not submit more, so I don't see this policy as an issue. If anything, they are "protecting you from yourself" on that topic.

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Not necessarily. You can send one additional letter. It's only when you overwhelm them with several letters that it could be disqualifying. This is my second time going through it and we sent an extra letter for my oldest. He got into his first choice even with the extra letter.
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