<p>for one of the teacher recs, i asked my 9th grade chemistry teacher, mostly because she’s known me for 4 years through science olympiad, and because i want to major in chemistry. Yale said that it’s a mistake if i do this… am i doomed?</p>
<p>where does it say that?</p>
<p>[Applying</a> to Yale College | Frequently Asked Questions | Office of Undergraduate Admissions](<a href=“http://www.yale.edu/admit/faq/applying.html]Applying”>http://www.yale.edu/admit/faq/applying.html)</p>
<p>does anyone knoww??</p>
<p>^
I wouldn’t say doomed, but not following suggestions <em>may</em> have cast a negative light to your application.</p>
<p>How is the OP not following directions? Those aren’t directions, they’re suggestions, and they aren’t even found on the application or in the application instructions.</p>
<p>You would be making a mistake if you chose a teacher who taught you in your freshman year, and with whom you haven’t had any type of academic relationship since. However, your situation is entirely different. Don’t sweat it.</p>
<p>^
“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.”</p>
<p>@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.</p>
<p>But again, to the OP, you are NOT doomed. The instructions are vague enough that you may be well within your boundaries.</p>
<p>Well shes known you for 4 years. I think the message they are trying to get through is “don’t get a 9th grader just cause they were your favorite because they will forget a lot about you”</p>
<p>I think you’re fine.</p>
<p>ugh i hope so</p>
<p>The good news is that we’re all doomed.</p>
<p>Why you saying that?</p>
<p>The reality is that 95% of us will get rejected from Yale.</p>
<p>And, further, 100% of us will eventually die.</p>
<p>We’re all doomed.</p>
<p>We have to be possitive!!!Is very important to be possitive…</p>
<p>In the SAT’s books I read that we have to think possitive and always to say ourselves that we are the perfect applicant for colleges!!!:D</p>
<p>lmao. This is fantastic.
Apologies for the unnecessary comment.</p>
<p>you’re doomed to never-ending torment beneath davy Jone’s Locker</p>