Teacher Recommendation Letters?

WhataProcess
Sun, 13 Sep 2015 12:43:36 +0000

For most schools it will be fine. Most important is that these are the teachers that know you well. Schools that require 2 recommendations often say from two different subjects, which yours are. Depending on your major, some will say at least one from…(e.g. science/math).

However there are schools that will say the teachers should be from different academic areas. In this case I don’t think your choices would be ideal. In general, I think this is the best strategy in any case, and what I recommend to my own kids. I think it is a good thing to show that teachers from different academic disciplines know you well and they will tend to comment on different academic/personal strengths, revealing more about you.

So, you need to know what the schools you are applying to require or “recommend”. You may need to consider a math or humanities teacher. If your school allows it, you could ask 3 teachers, and designate which recommendations go to which schools based on that school’s requirement. But only ask for them if you know that you need them. Asking a teacher to put in that effort, and then not even using it would be wrong.