AHHHHHH i got a 2 in English Comp. !!!
i was so depressed, but i was even more worried about my English Teacher. She said she would write me a def rec last year but im afraid she cant say that many good things about me based on my score. Her class didnt concentrate on the AP test at all. We rather just studied TONS of literature and she said we could take the test if we wanted, knowing she didnt prepare us properly. However, her class has been like that forever and next year she said they are changing the curriculum to concentrate on the AP test more. I got A’s in both semesters in her class and i loved her and the class. I was thinking that she would be my best and strongest rec but im not so sure any more. Do AP scores count that much in decisions and does it look bad if she says good things about me but my AP score doesnt support her?
<p>While I see where you're coming from, I fail to see how an AP score will greatly affect a recommendation letter. Any effective rec from teachers are one that comments on the personal qualities more than the academic merits. Those "best in 33 years of teaching" are becomming to common these days, (actually stated by many adcoms, who wonder how it is that many teachers have a best student in their career every single year) and are not as worthy as they used to be.</p>
<p>AP scores are not any more important to adcoms than a grade in a single class. No college requires that you report them, and in the standardized testing category, they are less important than SAT's or SAT II's. </p>
<p>Also, I wouldn't worry too much about the score affecting the teacher rec. He/she must have an opinion of you outside of how you did on the test. The recs are translated into a score on a 1-5 or 1-9 scale depending on how the college does it. You want somebody to say very, very nice things about you or it is just an average rec.</p>
<p>If your teacher doesn't teach very much to the AP test, she probably doesn't put too much emphasis on them or the grades, so I wouldn't be too worried about the grade affecting your rec.</p>