<p>Does it matter when a teacher taught you?</p>
<p>For UNC, I want to ask my freshman English teacher. He taught me three years ago, but in my sophomore and junior years I did Literary Meet, of which he is a sponsor.</p>
<p>I feel that he knows me well, and that's why I'm thinking about asking him.</p>
<p>Not a good idea in most cases because colleges want reccs from junior/senior teachers because they want info about the students' current performance. </p>
<p>If the teacher has kept an ongoing relationship with you due to being advisor for a club you're in like yearbook then the teacher may be excellent to ask for a supplemental recommendation if the colleges you're applying allow those.</p>
<p>Actually.. I have the same question. The teachers I've had for junior and will have for senior years are teachers that I've only had for a year and barely know me as a person. My freshman Honors Bio and Anatomy teacher knows me very well as a person..she's now retired. I plan to ask my Bio teacher, who taught me for two years, to write my recs to competitive schools.</p>
<p>Hmmm, well I would have to agree with northstarmom on this because I know I had a question about college teacher recommendations and the commonapp website told me that it would be best to stick to junior and senior year teachers, though if a teacher taught you for an extended amount of time I think this would be more reasonable then say some freshman teacher, but hmmm, it is tough nonetheless, so...</p>
<p>I think if the relationship continues in an academic context beyond freshman year there should be no problem - and a teacher who has taught a student for two years is also a good choice. I think recommendations don't make or break the application, but why not get the best you can?</p>
<p>Im in a school district where you have your freshman year in your JHS building and soph/Jr/Sr in a seperate building so i cant even remember any of my 9th grade teachers let alone ask for letters. But i did ask for letters from a few of my 10th grade teachers as i had a few of them 2 years in a row. I asked in june so that gave them a whole summer to write em up.</p>
<p>Believe it or not, for some schools, particularly top ones, recommendations can make or break the application. You can learn how heavily the recommendations are weighted by looking at the colleges' common data sets (there's a link pinned at the top of one of CC's college information boards) or checking the colleges' admissions web pages.</p>
<p>Incidentally, some colleges specific that recommendations come from junior or senior year teachers. Before having the teacher write the recommendation, take the time to talk with the teacher and also give him/her a memo reminding what you accomplished in their class. It can be good to attach copies of your best tests and papers.</p>
<p>what about recommendations from the principals? one of the principals at my school was one of my teachers freshman year but me and him have gotten close throughout the years</p>
<p>what about sophomore year teachers that really impacted you? (my english teacher that year was the best teacher ive ever had and probably will have)....and also, if i'm applying ED, the senior year teachers would know me for only 1 month before having to write the rec, wouldnt that be kinda pointless?</p>