<p>I hear from a lot of people, including my friend at Harvard, that it is recommended to have 2 LORs (letter of recommendations)- 1 from a humanities subject teacher and 1 from a science/math teacher. I want to submit my 2 from my business teacher and my english teacher because I know them much better than I know my math teacher. I want to pursue the math side (economics/statistics) of business, but I don't think my math teacher would write as great a LOR because I don't know him that well. I come to see all 3 teachers regularly during lunch for extra help, and I am involved with my business teacher's EC clubs. I just feel a much greater connection between my english and business teachers because I can freely talk to them about non-school related stuff.</p>
<p>My question is, do I NEED a science/math teacher's LOR for what I want to major in?? I can submit all 3 but I'm not sure how well that will play out... also I'm not applying for big time schools, I'm most likely EDing NYU. </p>
<p>It's not that my math teacher hates me, but I like my english and business teachers more.</p>
<p>although business isn't really a "subject", I have taken 3 of his elective courses over the past 2 years, been in FBLA for 3 years and soon to be 4 (may be president for next year), and I was captain of his New Jersey consumer bowl team this year (I was involved in the past 2 years, just not captain) which won the county championship. I feel that I'd rather have those 2 teachers write them for me because my business teacher is very old, and has a track record of communicating well with people and retaining connections as a business teacher and track coach, so I think his letter will be well-written. as for my english teacher, she is an experienced english teacher and I heard from graduates that she write amazing letters..... my math teacher is simply a math teacher and I'm not exactly sure how his letter writing skills will be especially.</p>
<p>Well NYU requires 2 LOR. One from an academic teacher and one from your guidance counselor. That means the advice of 1 math/science teacher and 1 humanities teacher does not apply to NYU. It is fairly good advice…but for NYU you’ll just want to pick the best teacher.</p>
<p>Take this with a grain of salt, but I got into Stern with four recs (Guidance counselor, two teachers, and the CEO of some company I worked for)</p>
<p>After speaking with many people involved in admissions, they mostly say to use two or three because if they didn’t there will always be the go-hard kid to send in seven. </p>
<p>I chose four only because I knew that they all held very high positions in their respective fields and they all had a different, unique thing to say.</p>
<p>Since NYU is a common app school they require an “academic” LOR but they do not dictate which discipline, and they also require a GC letter. They said that if that third letter is really strong and provides fresh and different insight I to a student then it is fine to send. As a prior poster said, they do not want redundancy nor do they want a folder-full from a student. Three should not be a problem especially if they are personal and not the run of the mill boilerplate letter.</p>
<p>I am actually disappointed when they said only 3 rc letters.
The worst part is two of them comes from the school.</p>
<p>My strength is at outside business related business leadership activities where 3-4 execs and managers from major banks and salesforce can write me rc letters ;/</p>
<p>@allenac22</p>
<p>thanks! and do you think a LOR from an adjunct faculty teacher from NYU Poly would help in any way? Even though I am not attending poly, I know a teacher there but he’s not a full time professor. He might be able to provide some insight on why I would be fit for NYU but I don’t want to go out of my way unless it will really help me… I could just replace my math teacher’s “bad” LOR with his if it’ll do well.</p>
<p>Just make sure any extra recommendation provides a new perspective, and is not a simple re-iteration of what you already provide in your common app and essays.</p>