<p>I’m not talking about Hitler or Napoleon invading and losing to Russia. It seems like there’s a sort of pattern that happens in my school. The girls who get into top tier schools (like 2 last year and one the year before) focus on journalism and English. All of them got recommendations from their English and History teachers. And more creepy, all of those girls liked guys that were one year younger than them.</p>
<p>Is there a universal “unknown rule” or is it just junioritis and paranoia getting the better of me?</p>
<p>Coincidence. You’re seeing things that aren’t there.
The only “unknown rule” might be that the English/History teachers write awesome recs, have high standards - which is the reason those girls wrote good essays,…</p>
<p>The age of the boyfriend might say something about maturity - if there were, like, 1000 cases like this and average numbers would start to matter. In your case - paranoia. </p>
<ul>
<li>about the matter of Hitler or Napoleon: Yes, I believe that history is doomed to repeat itself. Napoleons’ “world domination tour” was not the first. Hitler was not the first who killed masses of innocents just “because”. We do not learn from history if we say the past is in the past.</li>
</ul>
<p>Lol junioritis… I miss those good old days.</p>
<p>Math/science teachers are not as good writers as English/history teachers, maybe? Like Alexander1 said? To be honest, even if my science teachers love me this year, I don’t think they’d write good letters of rec, because they wouldn’t be able to express it as well as my history teacher or my future English teacher. After all, writing is not their (the math/sci teachers) specialty.</p>
<p>I don’t know about the one-year-younger boyfriend thing… though that’d be cool if it were relevant because I like someone a year younger than me, too. :p</p>
<p>i asked for my english and latin teacher’s recs (i’m a girl, btw in top percent of class)…just because they knew me. Plus, it freaked me out when my science teacher from soph year messed up my name and what class I took from her for a summer program rec.</p>