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"It is important that your recommenders be teachers who can write about your recent academic work in rigorous academic subjects. We strongly encourage students to ask 11th and 12th grade teachers to write for them. Given Yale's extremely competitive applicant pool, it is probably a mistake to ask a favorite ninth-grade teacher to write, or to seek out a coach or chorus director as a recommender unless he or she has also taught you recently in an academic course."
@rockermcr, please allow me to explain my reasoning. Yale OUA has stated that "it is probably a mistake" to ask recommendation letters from EC-leaders such as "coach[es]" and "choir director[s]," I would surmise that this would extend to other EC-advisors. In addition, the suggestions were that the recommenders should be those who have taught "recent academic course[s]." From my personal experience, I could say that my 9th grade Biology class was vastly different from my 11th grade AP class in the rigor of coursework and the academic challenge.
But again, to the OP, you are NOT doomed. The instructions are vague enough that you may be well within your boundaries.
Last edited by seattleyj; 10-31-2009 at 03:10 PM.
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