<p>can i apply online even though my teachers and counselor send their recommendations by mail?</p>
<p>Yes! actually there is no possibility (or I don't know of any) for teachers to send their reccomendations in any other way than by mail.</p>
<p>Absolutely!</p>
<p>That's what all the kids did, unless they opted for snail mail.</p>
<p>how bad is it if i get my recommendation from a freshman teacher?
but i was his lab assistant in my junior year.
this is not only a question for amherst but for other colleges as well.
some college require teacher recs from 11 or 12th grade only, but im not talknig about those schools.
im talking about schools that dont necessarily have rec restrictions.</p>
<p>It is always better to get a recommendation from your junior or senior year teacher because they can talk about your most recent performance in the class. While you are working as a lab assistant with your freshman teacher, s/he can only evaluate you in context of the work you do in the lab and not in the classroom.</p>