<p>What type of teachers should you ask from to get a recommendation? All of them? Also, should you do it junior or senior year?</p>
<p>Sometimes colleges tell you what types of teachers to get recommendations from, so check up on that, but usually any teacher from core subjects is fine. (If you’re applying as a music major though, your music teacher would be fine too.) </p>
<p>You ask for recommendations either at the end of your junior year or beginning of your senior year, but I’d say leave it for beginning of senior year.</p>
<p>Ask two teachers that you know well (not necessarily ones who gave you an A+) who can say something interesting about you.</p>
<p>I disagree with deferring to senior year. If you have to, go ahead, but it would be courteous to ask them at the end of the junior year. That gives them the summer.</p>
<p>^Agreed. It also almost guarantees that yours is among the first they do, so they spend more time with it–a result of not having to worry about anyone else’s.</p>
<p>I walked in to my teachers on the last day of junior year with a handful of potential places I was going to apply. I asked them if they would consider writing a recommendation for me and they said yes. I said thank you and then they explained the method they used and anything further they needed from me.</p>
<p>Peace.</p>