<p>Arg, I'm stressing out. You need two reccomendations for the CommonApp, right? I've got the English/History teacher figured out (actually, I have 2 candidates for that - AP English and English 11 teacher), but I have NO idea who to ask for the Math/Science teacher one. Can anyone help me decide on these potential candidates? >_<</p>
<p>Teacher 1: My AP Chemistry teacher from junior year, knows me very well because I went to go visit him before EVERY test, and he did like me enough to write me a pretty decent summer program rec! However, I um, kinda failed the AP Chemistry exam (ughhh. I don't want to talk about it) and he PRIDES himself on his students AP scores, so I'm betting he's not too thrilled with me at the moment (And I'm kinda avoiding him at school, lol) :( </p>
<p>Teacher 2: I had honor Precalc with him in junior year, he kinda knew me -- got an A- overall in the class, probably one of the higher grades. Wasn't standout student or anything, mostly known as a "good student" who did her homework. Went to afterschool help few times, participated in his penpal club occasionally. Still waves to me and says hi in the hallways, remembers my name at least, haha =)</p>
<p>Teacher 3: I had REGULAR honor Chem with this teacher... sophmore year. I'm a senior now, so he prob doesn't remember me :( He did know me really well though, almost my lab partner haha... </p>
<p>Teacher 4: My CURRENT AP Calculus AB teacher... I don't know, he doesn't know me well at all but he likes me (pretty much)! And I think I'll do okay in the class as well -- not sure yet... hopefully he'll get to know me better as the year progresses -- but I'd have to give it until November-ish to give him my request for a rec, right? </p>
<p>I don't know much teacher to ask... I'd really prefer not to ask my AP Chemistry teacher because of our weird issue, but yea... help?! :(</p>
<p>Go with your gut feeling and make sure the people you pick know you and know your capacity to work. That's the best way to look at the situation.</p>
<p>I just finished doing my recommendations to give to my teachers last night, but I'm out of stamps so I have to wait to give them to them, go figure.</p>
<p>Tough question...Maybe narrow it down to two teachers and just split ur recs between them both. I was almost going to do that, but I realized my physics teacher would prbly write me a better rec than my chem teacher so i just stuck with him.</p>
<p>she said shes already getting one from her humanities teacher. Im just saying get half of the science/math recs from one and the other half from another maybe.</p>
<p>Thanks for contributing to the discussion, seniorsrule, that was really helpful.</p>
<p>Anyway, not that I know anything being only a junior, but it seems like you know the situation best and have more insight into it than any strangers on a forum would. So mull it over more, and you'll probably come up with a better decision than we would. It seems like any of these teachers would write decent recs. People have all these stories of "OMG my X teacher loves me and I got a GREAT rec from him, we have a really close relationship" but I don't imagine that's the case for most kids, even top ones who get into selective schools, especially with all the 3000+ student public schools out there.</p>