Help! My teacher asked me for...

Applying to College
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<p>I have three teachers that I've requested letters of recommendations from. The three teachers include my chemistry teacher, AP Biology teacher, and AP English Lang & Comp teacher. I'm the first person in my family who's going to college here in the States and so I'm very confused about a lot of things!</p>

<p>First, my chemistry teacher taught me during my sophomore year. If the schools I'm applying to do not have requirements as to who writes my letters, do you think it would be okay if he wrote one? My chemistry teacher thought highly of me and was very enthusiastic in accepting my request for a letter. Some of my peers told me that regardless, I shouldn't ask a sophomore teacher but I'm not too sure. If someone could point me in a more certain direction, that would be very helpful.</p>

<p>Secondly, my AP Biology teacher recently sent me an email asking me to give her "stamped and addressed envelopes" as soon as possible. I was really confused by this. I thought colleges now accepeted electronic letters of recommendations? I'm applying to most schools on the Common App and one or two big research universities with their own application. Are there schools that still only accept mailed letters? And if so, do you know if there is an accumulative list of these schools? </p>

<p>Thanks for taking the time to read this!</p>

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<p>Your biology teacher may not be aware of how to submit her recommendation letters, or she may prefer to send them snail mail. Ask her; you may need to provide her with instructions about how to submit her letters electronically.</p>

<p>I don’t think there’s an issue with asking a sophomore year teacher.</p>

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<p>Or, you know, you could just do what she asked: write the address of the admissions office of each college you’re applying to on an envelope, put her name and the school address in the top-left corner as the return address, and put a postage stamp in the top-right corner.</p>

<p>If I had asked you for stamped and addressed envelopes, I’d rather get envelopes than a lesson on how to use commonapp.org.</p>

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<p>It is a bit better to ask Jr/Sr year teachers, but if the sophomore year teacher has something special to say than sure, you can use it. But you only need 2 letters from teachers, 3 is kind of overkill unless there is some special project or research you did with them.</p>