<p>Hey guys:
I know that most colleges want 11th and 12th grade teacher recommendations, but I have a teacher from 10th grade whom I believe liked me. He also is the sponsor of my school club.</p>
<p>I think that he'd be able to write a very nice rec for me. However, he is my 10th grade teacher. Does anyone know any colleges that frown upon or Strictly Will not consider 10th grade teacher recs?</p>
<p>If anyone has a list of colleges that ban 10th grade rec's, please let me know.
Also, i might end up sending 3 college rec's instead of 2, will colleges mind??</p>
<p>Thanks!
Btw, here are the colleges I'm thinking about applying to:
-U Maryland
-UC Berkeley
-Harvard
-Princeton
-Dartmouth
-Brown
-Swarthmore
-Cornell
-U Penn
-Stanford
-UCLA
-U Chicago
-Boston U
-Northwestern
-Vanderbilt
-Duke</p>
<p>I’d include at least one 11th grade teacher who had you a full year in an academic core subject. If you want to include a 10th grade teacher as a second one, that is your choice, unless the college specifically tells you otherwise in its requirements.</p>
<p>I suggest narrowing down your list of colleges, or you are going to have to spend months writing all those essays.</p>
<p>P.S. - Be sure to apply to some colleges that are moderately selective, as opposed to extremely selective. Ivy league admissions are impossible to predict.</p>
<p>Charlie</p>
<p>yup, thanks. my first rec was going to be from an 11th grade teacher who will be have me for the entire year, and he’s a pretty cool dude.
Secondly, yes, that list of colleges is provisional</p>
<p>I would discourage you from bending the “rules/strong suggestions” that (especially) selective colleges impose on academic recommendations. Often they are looking for junior year/senior year teachers, and some insist on sophomore year/junior year. Often they are looking for one from a humanities core subject, and a second from a quantitative subject (math/science). You can usually send additional supplementary recommendations – such as the one from your sophomore year teacher.</p>
<p>Unless those schools explicitly prohibit it (check their policies), they will accept sophomore recs. Consider, however, whether that teacher will remember you well enough to write a specific, reveal rec.</p>