What exactly is considered a "good" recommendation?

alex348
Sat, 16 Dec 2006 10:20:23 +0000

My thoughts exactly - because I’ve got a BRILLIANT English teacher (everyone says he must be one of the top 5 Eng. teachers in the country, if not the best) that I want to get to write one of my recs, and I’m pretty sure that what he writes would be really good, BUT I’m worried that the adcoms won’t know that it means something (a lot, actually) coming from him (i.e. that he isn’t just being “overly-nice”, to quote asiaknight). :)