Question About Teacher Recommendations

Applying to College Common and Coalition Application
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<p>I will be applying to college in the fall, and am unsure who to ask for my second recommendation. </p>

<p>I am definitely asking a teacher I had for International Relations, APUSH, and an independent study on terrorism and failed states my junior year. She says that I am one of her favorite students and even asked me and my friend to meet her for lunch sometime this summer, since we have both taken all of her classes so she won't see us as much next year.</p>

<p>For the second one, though, I can't decide between my Satire & Comedy and AP Lit teacher from junior year or my sophomore year AP Gov teacher, who is also the faculty sponsor of Model UN, one of the clubs I am involved in. The second teacher loves me and says that I am one of the best students he has ever had, but my only concern is that he is another social science teacher. I am planning on majoring in either anthropology, political science, or international studies/relations, so he is from my area of interest. The English teacher also finds me engaging and likes me very much, but I did not earn as high a grade in her classes as in AP Gov and I wouldn't consider myself a special favorite of hers. However, as an English teacher, she probably can write excellent letters of recommendation.</p>

<p>Which would you recommend?</p>

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<p>What about asking all your teachers and sending the best ones?</p>

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<p>Can you do that? I know at my school, you give the teachers the envelopes to mail the letters themselves to keep things confidential.</p>

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<p>^Aj, your school allows students to see teacher recs?</p>

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<p>Which teacher should I ask though? At my school, I definitely do not get to see what they write. All the teachers send them out themselves, but they can give you a copy of what they wrote if they want to.</p>

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<p>Ask the one who knows you best and who you know will write you the best rec. That’s probably more important than what class they taught.</p>