<p>Letters</a> of Recommendation | MIT Admissions
I just realized that they say 1 stem teacher "should" fill evaluation A and 1 humanities teacher "should" fill evalutation B. and they use "as a general rule"</p>
<p>Does that mean to say that 2 stem teachers or 2 humanities teacher could fill both applications and the application wouldn't be automatically rejected?</p>
<p>I don’t know about automatically rejected, but I think it’s probably best to follow the application guidelines. You also won’t be automatically rejected for dropping out of high school.</p>
<p>If you feel that a second recommendation letter from a STEM teacher could add something to your application that the first recommendation letter from a STEM teacher could not, then you could always add a supplemental recommendation letter. The idea seems to be to get as many views of you as a student and as a person as possible, and the hope seems to be that a humanities teacher might know things about you, such as the way you communicate through written word or oral presentations, that a STEM teacher might not.</p>
<p>The wording is not intended to be ambiguous – read “should” as “must”. It’s more clear if you read the list located below those instructions, which gives examples of classes that would count for one requirement or the other. The “as a general rule” is intended to help you classify your teachers, as they used to get a lot of questions about which teachers counted for the humanities rec.</p>
<p>Or see, for example, Matt McGann’s blog [here](<a href=“http://mitadmissions.org/blogs/entry/about_mit_recommendation_lette]here[/url]:”>About MIT Recommendation Letters | MIT Admissions):</a>
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<p>Unlike lidusha, I actually think that not submitting at least one Eval A/STEM and one Eval B/HASS rec would lead to rejection, in the same way that not submitting the required standardized testing would lead to rejection. If you don’t provide the required application components, your application will not be considered.</p>
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Definitely follow Mollie’s advice here over mine. If she says it would lead to rejection, it would probably lead to rejection. She knows a lot (a lot!) about the MIT admission requirements and process–more than most people here, including me.</p>