<p>I really want to apply to a school ED, and they require two teacher letters of recommendation. I think my chemistry teacher will write me a good letter, but I don't know who I want to write the second letter. They don't require that it be a humanities teacher, but I think it would make me seem not well-rounded if both of my letters were from science/math teachers. However, either of my humanities teachers this year know me too well. As the title asks, would it be bad to use a senior-year teacher's LOR? The ED deadline is November 1.</p>
<p>If they don’t know you too well, then what will they write? Go with the teachers who will give you the best LOR.</p>
<p>The goal of the letters of rec isn’t to seem well-rounded. It’s to have teachers who know you well evaluate you: Go with the teachers who know and like you the best.</p>
<p>Sorry, I don’t think I made my point clear. I’m currently a junior, and I’m wondering about using LORs from my teachers next year for ED. </p>
<p>I think I could get a good rec from the social studies teacher next year (this year my social studies class is a lecture with no student participation; next year it will be a very discussion-driven class, and it’s a topic I’m interested in). I also might get good recs from some semester-long classes I’m taking at a nearby university.</p>
<p>My fear is that my professors/teachers won’t know me well enough by November 1, or that the adcoms will assume that they don’t know me well enough.</p>
<p>With an ED deadline, your teacher would be writing the LOR in Oct and you would have to ask in late Sept/early Oct. IMO, that’s too short a time for a teacher to know you well enough to write a strong LOR. If you have a math or other science teacher who could write you a strong second LOR, I’d go with that rather than a weak one that demonstrates breadth.</p>