<p>So at the end of the year I asked two teachers for recommendations because for some reason I thought you needed two. And I was going to ask my Japanese teacher for my third optional one, which in reality should be my second. I'd rather send one core and my Japanese teacher rather than two cores. </p>
<p>Do I tell a teacher never mind or let them write it and say yea thank you this helps and then throw it away? </p>
<p>LOL.</p>
<p>They’ll probably never know your recommendation wasn’t sent, however I think it would be rude to have them write it for nothing. I’d just politely inform them, through e-mail or some other means, that you won’t need their recommendation.</p>
<p>I don’t get it.</p>
<p>And the thing that complicates a simple “never mind” email is that I sent them my resume TODAY, so it would be really weird to change my mind so quickly.</p>
<p>That doesn’t complicate things IMO - in fact, I think the earlier you tell him/her, the easier and less awkward it is. Plus, the earlier you tell the teacher, the less chance that s/he had written the recommendation letter already. Better to tell your teacher now before s/he writes it than after she already wrote it. =p</p>
<p>Just tell her something like “Sorry, but I found out that I won’t be needing the recommendation. Nothing personal, it’s just that I’d prefer to have my recommendation from a different subject.”</p>
<p>My friend is actually planning on asking a bunch of his teachers for letter of recs and then he’ll choose the best one. It miiight seem messed up but it couldn’t hurt to still let them write it and then choose the best one. :P</p>
<p>God I’d so rather have someone else do this for me xD</p>
<p>I want to ask my Japanese teacher to help play up my being “globally aware” and stuff like that. </p>
<p>So I’m thinking of having my US History teacher write the core rec because she’s the Model UN counselor. I’d be asking the English teacher to not write it. But everyone asks the English teacher!</p>
<p>First world problems are pretty much the worst of them all.</p>
<p>Just go with your gut :). But personally, if you think you are not going to use a rec, don’t ask a teacher to write it - because then they’d have written all that for nothing. =/</p>
<p>BTW, I don’t know what colleges you’re applying to, but I know some science/techy colleges require one rec from a science/math teacher - just make sure you keep up with the requirements of each college you plan on applying to.</p>
<p>@FollowTheReaper, but you don’t see the letters before they send them…</p>
<p>CSIHSIS if you are applying with commonapp (and I think most schools do it this way) you don’t send the letter - the teacher uploads it directly to commonapp or sends it directly to the school. So you definitely would have to tell them. They don’t just hand it to you to send in.</p>
<p>All of mine just require a core subject teacher, so it’s fine. </p>
<p>OH GOD I’M GOING TO SEND THE EMAIL. It’s only 12:27 am, it won’t be that awkward.</p>
<p>At least it’s the summer so I won’t have to deal with this in person until September xD</p>
<p>Alwaysleah, you can choose to not waive your right and you can read them.</p>
<p>^No, read the commonapp. It says you’ll be able to read them ** after ** the college evaluates you ** if ** the college keeps them on record (not all do). </p>
<p>And I wouldn’t ever recommend not waiving your right anyway.</p>
<p>I did it. The worst is over. It’s done.</p>
<p>-walks away like I was the last survivor in a slasher movie-</p>
<p>This happened with me but I wasn’t applying to colleges. One of my teachers swore he sent in my LOR to the correct email address, but he didn’t. I didn’t want to make him feel bad so I wrote him a thank you card and told him they received it. I actually had to have a different teacher write the letter, but it all worked out in the end. :)</p>
<p>I think you should let all of your teachers write their recommendations. I wouldn’t say anything, because, no matter how polite you are, I think they’ll still be a bit offended. Besides, it’s good to have a 3rd one just in case you might end up needing it.</p>