At a private college’s info session that we attended this week, the admissions rep stressed the importance of LORs in their application process. The advice was similar to the other thread - start approaching teachers from whom you’d like to request LORs.
This talk of LORs reminded me of my older kid who asked her private coach to write a letter for an honors scholarship application. He asked for some basic academic info so she gave him her resume. He gave her the letter to review instead of sealing it in an envelope. She looked at it and was appalled. He had basically written to her resume and said little to nothing about her growth in her sport (for which she was also being recruited by colleges.) She chose to toss it and submit two teacher LORs and got the full ride.