<p>I am aware that one rec letter has to come from a humanity teacher...
I do not particularly get along with any humanity teachers
so I was wondering if I would be disadvantaged for asking my band teacher to write me a rec letter. First of all, is band considered a humanities class?
Second of all, the teacher has known me since 4th grade so he knows me well.
He is aware of the difficulties that I have had in my life such as living on my own.</p>
<p>What do you guys think?</p>
<p>Band (music) teachers are fine.</p>
<p>I’m getting my humanities rec from my Spanish teacher.</p>
<p>I’m thinking of getting my Grade 9 Visual Arts teacher since I don’t really have anyone better (I don’t get along with English teachers…), though Gr. 9 seems quite a far way back</p>
<p>@ttyl8: Grade 9 is too far back.</p>
<p>Yeah they usually ask for grade 11 or 12 teachers only. I think they just want a complete image of you, so if a band teacher knows you better than a history or english teacher, I would go for it.</p>
<p>My problem is that I can’t reach any of my Gr. 10/11 humanities teachers since I switched schools (And I’ve only taken 3 humanities courses there anyways) and I’m not taking a single humanities course next year.</p>
<p>^^ Many students switch schools. You could email or write one of the teachers from your last school. At your current school, a language, history, arts, or political science teacher could write a humanities letter for you. What subjects are you taking this year?</p>
<p>If all else fails, bring some writing samples to a humanities teacher at your current school; schedule a meeting to go over your transcript and plead your case. Exercise your social skills and throw yourself on that teacher’s mercy. </p>
<p>It’s just a problem; think of ways to solve it.
:-)</p>
<p>I’ve only taken 1 humanities course for Gr. 11, and that’s Gr. 11 English. My Gr. 11 English teacher didn’t like my writing style so we really didn’t click… I could so predict what he’s going to check off. I took Gr. 12 English as a correspondance course so I really can’t get a rec for that. </p>
<p>As for the courses I’m taking this year… I’m not taking that many since technically, I could’ve graduated a year early so I figured that studying on my own or getting work experience would probably be a better idea than to take unneccessary courses. My school doesn’t even offer honour courses so I figured that doing some studying on my own is better than taking a course that moves too slowly. </p>
<p>Whatever, I probably won’t apply anyways because I practically have a 0 chance of getting in.</p>
<p>Sorry for reviving an old thread, but I thought it would be better to do so than to create a new thread.</p>
<p>For the humanities reference, am I allowed to ask humanities teachers that don’t actually teach me a humanities course? From my understanding, the only requirement is that the rec must be a humanities teacher, but doesn’t necessarily have to teach me an actual humanities course. I know this should be a last resort, but I really don’t have anyone else. </p>
<p>I am currently taking Co-op who is taught by a social science teacher, so I’m thinking of asking her to write the rec for me even though she doesn’t teach me Social Science. I am also considering to join a music group and asking the conductor to write me the rec (I didn’t take music as a course because it would be an easy course, though I still love music…). </p>
<p>For background info, I have only taken one real humanities course since last year, and that was Grade 11 English. Not only was that from a different school, but let’s just say I wouldn’t expect my Grade 11 English teacher to give me a fantastic reference. I took Grade 12 English online, so I couldn’t exactly use an online teacher for a rec. It’s not that I’m a total Math/Science person who only takes Math/Science courses, but it’s just that I took a bunch of extra humanities courses in my first 2 years of high school and I don’t see a point in taking extra high school courses in Grade 12 when I could be doing something better with my time.</p>
<p>HAHAHHA,</p>
<p>I am in similar boat. I am getting mien from my Economics Teacher</p>
<p>Economics is actually a Social Science course, I think, so you have nothing to worry about lol</p>
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Is there a particular reason you don’t want to ask a 9th or 10th grade humanities teacher to write you a rec?</p>
<p>First of all, I thought that would be far too back and perhaps a Social Science teacher (though I actually get her for co-op) would work better.</p>
<p>Most of the humanities courses I took in 9th or 10th grade were continuing ed courses. As for the few humanities courses I took in day school, I don’t even remember the teachers that well, so I would assume that the teachers would remember me much less. I’d be surprised if they actually remembered my name =P</p>
<p>Is it O.K. to send in a third rec letter from a teacher who has been active in an EC activity that teaches math at another school? The rec would be great and add a lot of different points to the other rec letters.</p>
<p>Yes, you can send in a supplemental letter from whomever you like.</p>
<p>So am I allowed to just ask my co-op teacher to write my humanities rec?</p>
<p>Anyone? lol</p>
<p>You’re allowed – there’s no requirement that the teachers you choose for your recs have taught you in an academic course.</p>
<p>Nonetheless, the MIT website mentions that they “find that the best recommendations are written by teachers who know an applicant well as both a student and a person.”</p>
<p>Sorry for reviving an old thread, but I just came across Matt’s post:</p>
<p>“Who should you ask? You should certainly ask a teacher who has taught you in an academic class in high school (i.e. no middle school, and no basket weaving class).”</p>
<p>[MIT</a> Admissions | Blog Entry: “Some recommendations about recommendations”](<a href=“http://www.mitadmissions.org/topics/apply/the_freshman_application/some_recommendations_about_rec.shtml]MIT”>http://www.mitadmissions.org/topics/apply/the_freshman_application/some_recommendations_about_rec.shtml)</p>
<p>This still means I’m technically allowed to ask my co-op teacher to write my humanities rec? I understand that I should still avoid it, but it’s not like I have anyone else…</p>