<p>I plan to apply to several ivy leagues and top 50 schools this fall, and i am pretty sure i will study engineering. Do I need to get teacher recommendations in math/science? I have a language arts teacher who i know will write a great letter for me (she only chooses a few students from each of her classes to write letters for) and a japanese teacher who has had me since my freshman year and knows me really well. I didn't have very good math or science teachers this year, though, and I don't think either of them know me very well. Would it be better to get recommendations from two teachers who know me really well, or one teacher who knows me well and one teacher who doesn't know me as well but taught me in math/science?</p>
<p>It would be highly recommended, and even required at some schools, that you have one rec from a math/science teacher. I know, for example, that Columbia SEAS required a letter specifically from a math teacher, and others may do something similar. I had kind of a similar situation as you, where I didn’t really feel my junior year math/science teachers would do a good job. I got lucky, and ended up having my sophomore year math teacher again senior year, and he wrote my rec. I know not every school is going to require you to have a math/science rec, but some will, so I would definitely try to find someone. I don’t know how detrimental it would be, but it might seem kind of odd, I think.</p>
<p>I’m also wondering about this. For colleges that don’t require you to apply to a specific engineering school (Yale, Princeton, Harvard, Brown, etc…), is it acceptable to have letters of rec from two humanities teachers?</p>
<p>I’m probably applying as an environmental science engineering major. However, my EC’s are focused around writing and humanities. I have strong relationships with my English and Language Arts teacher. Can I skip out on a math/science rec?</p>
<p>^Bump. 10char</p>
<p>One rec should definitely be math or a solid science, since a lot of top engineering schools require it and most will look down on having no math or science rec.</p>
<p>^However, HYPS doesn’t require you to apply to an engineering school. It’s only admissions into the college.</p>
<p>i think that it dosen’t matter what the teacher teaches cause i feel that recommendations are more about the teacher telling the college how you are as a person. And no matter what they teach if a teacher can do that for that really great. (this is completely my thinking) If its not in a subject you plan to study in I think it’s fine and it shows you work hard in class that may not even be your strong subjects. Maybe you can get a balance. ex: i got my french teacher and drama teacher and physics teacher and i’m majoring in engineering and i got into top engineering schools.<br>
but i don’t think it really matters what subject they teach, but thats just my opinion, hope this helps</p>