<p>Okay i have just decided to transfer and finished the app. but i am on break now and need a recommendation letter from my college. I am going to ask my english prof. but should i wait until january when i come back to ask her in person or should i just email her now. Thanks. The admission is rolling and i want to guarantee oncampus housing.</p>
<p>You can email her whenever, but I wouldn’t expect an answer until January if I were you. Could she be totally on the ball and eager to write you back? Sure. But don’t get your hopes up too much.</p>
<p>Depends on how well you know the person or not. Face to face contact is more intimate and is great if she doesn’t know you well.</p>
<p>Just email them now. You don’t have anything to lose, really. If they don’t want to reply they’ll just let it sit in their inbox and respond in January. If I was a prof I’d prefer if someone emailed me sooner rather than later, anyway. </p>
<p>It doesn’t make sense to purposely waste nearly a month of time when for all you know she could be willing to send in the rec the day she gets the email.</p>