<p>Hi, I'm just wondering, are we allowed to ask senior teachers to write college recommendation letters before mid october? Is this acceptable? I had a teacher last semester for economics, and will get him again for macro next year. So I want to ask him for a recommendation, but i don't know if i can do that. :(</p>
<p>Definitely. As long as you’ve had him it should be fine.</p>
<p>Actually, if you were kind of dumb you could ask a teacher you’ve never had or known if you wanted haha</p>
<p>oh i have a question about letters of rec. as well.
do they have to be from two different disciplines such as math and history?
what if i got one from a foreign language?
what would look best, or does it not matter?</p>
<p>^Try to get your most intelligent, witty teachers. Make sure they like you enough to write an excellent recommendation about you. If you are going to be in a major which relates to a certain HS subject, seek a recommendation from that teacher. Keep in mind, that even if a teacher’s class is not your best, they can still like you for your personality and write about that.</p>
<p>Well I’m wasn’t one of his slacking students, in fact i was one of the hard workers. But the problem is, this was last semester. I don’t even know if he remembers me. I had him first period so i was kinda quiet… :(</p>
<p>It’s better early than late to ask teachers for recommendation letters. If you ask a teacher to write a letter of rec a few days before the application deadline, he or she might not be willing to write in short notice.</p>
<p>I think you should get a wide variety of teachers and ask the ones that like you the most. Determine with which teachers you built the strongest friendship.</p>
<p>There aren’t a lot of teachers that i liked or talked a lot with. I would ask my 9th grade bio teacher, but she’s in the Jr. High School, so’s she probably forgot me now…I sometimes talk with my physics teacher, but i suck at physics, so i don’t think it’s good to ask him.
I’m applying early (deadline is Nov.1), do you think i could leave a good impression and get a senior teacher’s rec on time?</p>
<p>Well you’re just because you’re not very good at certain subject doesn’t mean you cannot ask that teacher for a recommendation. I asked my counselor, English teacher, and art teacher. Only because I was very close to my counselor and I help out in the office so she was able to write about my leadership/communication skills etc. I wasn’t my best English teacher’s student when it came to getting an A’s. I was a B student in his class my junior year. I didn’t want to ask my Senior English teacher because he procrastinates a lot. My Art teacher’s recommendation was awesome because I was president of art club and won competitions so she was able to write something nice too.</p>
<p>What you can do to make it a bit easy is write down all your high school activities and outside of school things that you do. </p>
<p>It can be helpful for the teacher so they can mention it, especially if you’re a quite student. What I did was just gave every teacher that was going to write a recommendation for me a resume. Made it so much more easier!</p>
<p>Just remember you can ask any teacher/coach/administrator. Make sure you keep a copy. It will come in handy if you need it later.</p>
<p>Oh that’s very interesting, a resume. My counselor asks for a resume, but I didn’t know you can do the same for teachers too. So…I think i’ll do what you did honeybutterfly. Thanks! 
and Thanks to everyone else too! :)</p>
<p>“But the problem is, this was last semester. I don’t even know if he remembers me. I had him first period so i was kinda quiet.”</p>
<p>Unless these are 100 person lectures or something, he probably remembers you. However, if you had more personality in another class you might be better off with a recommendation from that teacher.</p>
<p>He teaches history, econ., macro, and some other elective. So that’s over 100 ppl right there. I think he’ll remember me if I told him my name, but i don’t think he’ll really remember anything significant about me…And the only class where I showed my personality is history (which i’m getting one of my recs from) because that’s the only class where I feel comfortable with the teacher. The others are kind of blah…I feel just a little bit inclined to ask my physics teacher, but 1) he has horrible grammar. 2) He’s a genius (really he is) from Yale who’ll probably think I don’t deserve it; He probably only gives it to AP Physics kids. :(</p>
<p>By 100 person lectures, I meant in 1 class.</p>
<p>If you can’t come up with anyone else who can write something interesting about you, go with whoever seems cool, and doesn’t get a lot of requests for recommendation letters. When a teacher has to write 100 recommendation letters, they probably don’t get all that much attention. I remember one teacher complaining about how she had to write something like 160-some letters. I’m inclined to think that’s an exaggeration though, since she’d only have like ~180 students a year, but that’s what she said.</p>
<p>would it be bad to ask a foreign language teacher?</p>
<p>If I switched high schools and moved out of state in junior year and want to ask someone I had at my first high school, could I do that?</p>