Letters of Recommendation

TheSpookyGhost
Wed, 03 Jan 2018 08:11:31 +0000

I’m a first year college freshman trying to transfer to a couple of universities over the CommonApp, one of which is CalTech. I just noticed that CalTech requires 2 academic evaluators. The instructions state that “for the purposes of Academic Evaluator recommendations, you may choose to invite a college instructor or academic advisor”. Does this mean that high school teachers aren’t allowed to be recommenders. I just changed majors from environmental studies to physics, so none of my professors in the first quarter are remotely related to physics. On the other hand, I had a physics teacher in high school who I believe had a fond opinion of me. Finally, I’m also a bit worried that my first quarter professors would be repulsed by my switching to another major after taking their class. I’d like to here what all of you’re thoughts are.