<p>I have a teacher who is currently attending my first choice school, however I'm not sure of her writing ability (physics teacher). She likes me, but that might not be enough when it comes to actually writing the recommendation.</p>
<p>Is the fact that she's doing graduate work at the school have any bearing on the letter? I don't even know how it would be brought up to the person reading it, since I'm sure the reader wouldn't know her personally. Just curious if anyone has had experience with this sort of thing.</p>
<p>I don’t necessarily doubt her writing ability. She could be a good writer, but if her status at the university had no effect on her recommendation then I have other teachers who I trust to be very good writers. Not to sound cynical or anything, I’m just curious.</p>
<p>Yeah pick a teacher that knows how to write a good rec. The only science teacher that liked me that hasn’t left the school was a teacher that was very young, he told me he was going to look through his old recommendation letters to see how to write one. He wrote 1 paragraph, and in addition to uploading it, he emailed it to me. He also did a rec for my twin which happened to be IDENTICAL to the my rec with the name swapped. (he specified specific projects and activities we did but we worked on the project together as a team and also both captained separate competition teams)</p>
<p>And the funny thing is, when I asked him to upload it again to another college site, he lost the file, but since he had emailed it to me, I emailed it back to him to upload it. XD</p>
<p>But I needed a science rec, so… :/</p>
<p>At least I know my other rec was well written from another teacher who knew how to write these.</p>
<p>And I’m trying to get into Penn so hopefully the other rec works!</p>
<p>Does she know you well enough to convey meaningful anecdotes? That’s the most important thing – not whether she’s attending grad courses at your target college or a reputation for flowery prose. Good luck to you.</p>