<p>As a quiet and shy student, I rarely, if ever, participated in classes. Furthermore, I demonstrate no significant interest in any of my humanities courses. Of course, this becomes in an issue for my college applications since the colleges I am applying to requires a humanities recommendation. </p>
<p>I have decided that my best option would be to ask my Spanish teacher who I’ve had for two classes. While he does greet me when he sees me outside of class and has praised me before for being good at Spanish (I think he was just being polite; my grades were only about average or slightly above), I can imagine the recommendation will be lackluster. Considering I rarely participate and haven’t demonstrated much interest, the recommendation will probably be worse than just bland. </p>
<p>On the other hand, I imagine my mathematics teacher’s recommendation will be stellar. I don’t raise my hand voluntarily, but my teacher knows me outside of the classroom and he is comfortable just calling on me in class. </p>
<p>I know I am not presenting much information here, but hopefully someone can answer to how much of a disadvantage (regarding having one very poor and one very good recommendation) this will have on my chances into Cornell, Columbia University, or MIT. </p>
<p>Unfortunately elements of my shyness will probably show up on both recommendations. I feel comfortable with my math teacher, but I am just a silent person. </p>
<p>So, as another question, how would my personality affect my chances?</p>
<p>Edit: Sorry, probably not the proper forum, but if there are responses I am grateful to hear them.</p>