Chance Me: GPA 5.4 [NJ resident, 4.0 unweighted GPA, 1540 SAT (800M, 740RW), applied math or industrial engineering]

[ucbalumnus]

@aunt_bea

I’m sorry but I really don’t believe that you cannot find a history, language, nor foreign language teacher who will write a letter of recommendation for you.

Agree that the OP should check those teachers.

However, some students have encountered significant difficulty getting recommendations:

Teacher told S24 to write his own letter of recommendation [and other teachers are refusing or rationing letters of recommendation]

My son asked his computer science teacher to write him a LOR. It is a good choice because he is applying for CS and Games, excelled in the class, and has had a good relationship with the teacher and engaged with him on several outside the class projects. He provided the teacher with a brag sheet, a letter outlining all his accomplishments in the class as well as the reasons why the Computer teacher was ideally suited to describe my son’s personality and outside class projects. Essentially a “draft LOR” if the teacher wanted something concrete to work from. However, the teacher said he always gets students to write their own letters and just email him a copy. He provided a template that reads like a laundry list of activities and said S24 could just cut and paste his name into it if he wanted or write his own. Obviously S24 is not going to use the template. (Frankly, it would have been a poor LOR if the teacher had written the LOR using the template). S24 could write the LOR, I could…