<p>Your grade is less important than what they say about you. After all if the grade was the important thing they could just look at your transcript. You want the teacher that’s going to describe you as curious, a pleasure to teach, a kid other students in class respect, that kind of stuff. Do a web search about strong letters of rec and you’ll see illustrations of what I mean. For example, the thread at <a href=“http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/parents-forum/1183872-letters-recommendation-good-vs-fantastic.html[/url]”>http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/parents-forum/1183872-letters-recommendation-good-vs-fantastic.html</a>. So if you seem to have “clicked” more with one than the other, use that one. Both math and science are subjects in which you’d have had the chance to show some of the skills that matter for biomed, so either is fine. </p>
<p>And be sure to ask the one you choose if they would be willing to write you a strong letter of rec or would prefer you ask someone else. This is always appropriate, phrased politely of course. While it can be uncomfortable for a student to ask a direct question like this to a teacher, it HAS to be done. In “The Gatekeepers”,in which a NY Times reporter followed the admissions committee at Wesleyan for a year, is a real-world example of a bad rec. Obviously when the student asked for a rec she assumed it would be positive, but here is what she got:
This could have been avoided if the teacher had been asked if they would write a strong rec. The student did not get in.</p>