<p>Does Cornell prefer junior/senior teacher recs over sophomore teacher recs?</p>
<p>I would surmise that Cornell prefers recs from teachers that know you best.
I would personally tend to recommend a junior year teacher, since they've had you for at least a whole year, while senior year teachers have had you for a couple months.</p>
<p>The admissions person at the CAS info session said they prefer junior/senior and if you get ones that aren't, they will probably ask "why not?"</p>
<p>the only exception to this would be if you were applying to a bio major and you did really well in high school bio as a 9th or 10th grader...and you still do lots of bio ECs...</p>
<p>who better than your bio teacher to write you a letter?</p>
<p>Resurgam has a point, but I'm lucky that I took AP Bio junior year and that subject's teacher is one of my rec writers, since I'm going into pre-med.</p>
<p>agghh i got one of mine from a 9th grade teacher (academic decathlon coach who knows me fairly well). how bad of an impact would this have on my overall application :( ?
[i should probably have explained on the common app that 4 out of my 7 junior-year teachers were laid off due to the educational budget cuts in CA, but i didn't bother. argh i'm so stressed.]</p>
<p>Most schools want junior or senior teachers for rec letters. I wouldn't be surprised if it is the case for Cornell. Even if Cornell allow it, why bother, you would have to get another rec for other schools anyway. Get two letters from your junior or senior teachers and be done with it.</p>