<p>I'm having a dilemma about my letters of recommendation. I hope to major in English, and therefore have written one of my essays about the incredible influence my English teacher this year has had on me. </p>
<p>However, could I then ask this same teacher to write one of my recs? I know she'd do a good job but I don't know if it'd look weird or overdone?</p>
<p>Any help would be amazing!</p>
<p>I don't think that's a bad idea- your essay will be your own objective perception of how you learned and improved as a person through your English teacher, while your teacher's rec might be more subjective, with you being a student who stands out among a pool of others.</p>
<p>Thanks, that's what I was hoping :)</p>
<p>It might look weird and overdone to some people. It might look sincere and eloquent to others.</p>
<p>Since you're just doing what you were instructed to do, and it's not that extreme, I don't see any reason that you should worry.</p>
<p>if you asked that teacher to edit your essay, it might look like you sucked up to them first, and then asked for a rec letter (to some shallow, superficial folks...)</p>
<p>but i dunno. personally, i think it's probably fine.</p>
<p>I think it would be weird to write about this teacher in an essay and then NOT use her as a reference. (Unless you're writing how you overcame her evilness or something like that.) If she was a positive influence, her rec will only reinforce the picture you paint in the essay.</p>