<p>She was my AP Environmental Science teacher, and she knows me quite well, is thoughtful, and is also adviser of a club I am an officer of now. Is having a 10th grade teacher write my rec a good or bad idea?</p>
<p>I think it’s fine…you should pick whoever can write the best recommendation about who you are now (academically). It probably wouldn’t be a great idea if you’d had her in tenth grade and then never seen her again, but it doesn’t seem like that’s the case.</p>
<p>If she can give good insight about you, and you are still talking to her, then I would say it is fine.</p>
<p>My GC told me that 10th and 11th grade teachers are ideal since you were a completely different person when you were a Freshman and your Senior teachers don’t have enough time to really know you.</p>