Thanks for the advice, but it seems my English teacher is generally reluctant to write rec letters. It’s not so much a school wide policy, but it’s more so my school doesn’t want students leaving for other prep schools. For some of the teachers at my school, I find their credentials very questionable and deeply wonder how they became a teacher (although we are an independent school). Would my history teacher or my last year english teacher work as a subsitute for the rec letter, since I think the problem is just with a couple teachers at the school.