<p>currently i am attending uc berkeley, and transfer apps for fall 06 will be due somewhere around march or april, so i was wondering if anybody who transferred from a large school can tell me how you went about getting prof recs, since the lectures are large and rather impersonal, i don't know how i can just approach a prof and ask him/her for a transfer rec letter. it'd be pretty weird. some professors are incredibly arrogant, too, so that could make things very difficult. even if i take part in discussions and make myself heard and go to office hours, there are still too many students for me to have a good enough relationship with a teacher for him/her to write a good rec for me. so any advice? i'd really appreciate it.</p>
<p>ask brilliant questions during class,
go talk to them during office hours....... </p>
<p>as boring as it sounds,
this is pretty much the only way your gonna get to know them</p>
<p>Do you have any smaller classes at all? I go to UGA, so most of my classes are huge lectures, but I took one English class my first year that had about 35 kids in it, and that's the prof I'm getting my rec from.</p>
<p>ya i do have one class that's kinda smaller than the others, so i guess that'll work. so do schools only need one rec then? that's nice to hear :)</p>
<p>The ones I'm applying to (NYU and Barnard) only ask for one teacher rec. Barnard asks for a mid-semester report from each prof as well, but that's more of a quick grade report so far than an actual rec. Good luck!</p>