<p>Do you email them? ask in person? give them your transcript? tell them about you? what are you supposed to do? cause im so lost. What exactly did YOU do step by step?</p>
<p>and do these matter that much?</p>
<p>It it important that you choose the two teachers that you feel know you the best as these can be a deciding factor in the admission if you are borderline for a school. First you need to ask the teachers in person and ask them for their email, this is more formal instead of through email. Then you need to see if your school has a letter of rec packet that you need to fill out and return to your teachers. If your school doesn’t have this then you need to type up a list of all of the colleges you are applying too, if you are applying early or regular, and what date the application is due. Then return this form to your teachers asap and Ask them if they need any more info on you.</p>
<p>I would ask in person–it’s more polite, and I think it gets better results.</p>
<p>Some schools have procedures about this, some don’t. Ask your guidance counselor maybe? In my school we gave each teacher stamped/addressed envelopes plus a resume / brag sheet (which included our grades), and a “due date.” Some teachers didn’t use the envelopes though. The above post’s suggestion to include a list of colleges might also be a good idea, though nobody did that at my school…</p>
<p>At my school sometimes our teachers would show us the letters they wrote before sending them, too, just as a matter of course. Sounds sketchy, yes, but then I saw one of mine and the woman who was my teacher of two years AND my after-school adviser had continually misspelled my name. Oops. But I think that seeing your teachers’ recommendation letters is a rarity, for good reason.</p>
<p>How important are they? I don’t know. In borderline cases I can see them being important. Probably depends on the school, and on the student, but bad recommendations are a bad thing.</p>
<p>Also, when you ask the teacher to write your recommendation, you can also ask what they need. 
That might get you the best results.</p>