<p>I guess all of you guys know that Stanford 'strongly recommends' teacher recs from 1)Math 2)Science 3)Humanities ,separately with each teacher having taught in senior high school.</p>
<p>My Problem:</p>
<p>I come from a highly specialized Math/Science school, and its been 3 years since I have been taught by a humanities teacher. I went too deep into science :(</p>
<p>My solution:</p>
<p>I have a confirmed physics teacher.</p>
<p>I am debating between a 1) Biology teacher (who will write a freagin good rec coz I know him for years) and 2) a Math teacher (who taught me for half a semester; we have too many math teachers circulating each semester)</p>
<p>Can Stanford go easy on the rules and lets me get it from my bio teacher? Or do I have to strictly follow them?</p>
<p>as long as the bio teacher taught you in 11th or 12th grade (or 10th if it was an AP/IB type class) you are fine. They should come from core subjects like science/math/english/foreign language/etc but Stanford doesn’t have a preferred distribution of letters across those subjects. Pick who will write you the best letters.</p>
<p>Just to let you know, Stanford only needs two teacher recommendations: “We will accept a maximum of two teacher evaluations.” You did scare the crap out of me for a minute there, until I checked the admissions website. Hope I helped you out a little. Good Luck.</p>
<p>if you wanted you could include a 3rd teacher recommendation as the 1 optional additional recommendation…although I imagine for most people there’s not a whole lot of value there.</p>