| gg0624: you will need to read the guidelines for the particular colleges you want to apply for. I was just reading and printing forms for the colleges my D is interested in. A lot of them are very specific about who can write your recommendations. For example, for University of Chicago Teacher A must be an English or Social Studies teacher and Teacher B must be Science or Math. They do allow a Supplemental Recommendation (3C) which could be your Humanities teacher.
I copied the following directly from the Stanford website to give you an idea of what another college requires: "We require two teacher evaluations and we strongly request that these letters come from teachers who have taught you in grades 11 and/or 12 in two different subject areas from among the following: English, mathematics, science, foreign language and history/social studies. The best piece of advice we can give, as you choose teachers to write these evaluations, is to choose people who like you and who will share unique examples of your academic strengths and personal qualities. We will accept a maximum of two teacher evaluations." Stanford also says: "Yes, you may submit one additional letter of recommendation if you have another person, not a teacher or counselor, who knows you well and will provide us with information about you that your other recommenders will not."
So, as you can see it really depends which colleges you are applying to. If you want to post the requirements from the websites of the colleges you are applying to we can see if the teachers you are proposing will work. |