<p>I was recently at Colgate and found out they don't accept recommendations from freshman teachers, but accept the common application. </p>
<p>on the common application do they say you can't use freshman teachers?</p>
<p>is it common at other colleges that freshman teacher reccommendations aren't allowed?</p>
<p>I doubt that many people would want to use a freshman teacher anyway. They know you from THREE years ago.</p>
<p>Well can someone answer the question because i want to. i have known this teacher throughout my three years of high school, it was just that he only taught me in 9th grade. Thanks.</p>
<p>I don't think the common app asks for recs...
It's a separate part of the whole process since the letters of rec are sent in on their own.</p>
<p>So if the college says no 9th grade teachers, it means just that.</p>
<p>On a separate note, I'm using a 9th grade teacher, but then again the same teacher is my sci. oly. coach and will be a 12th grade teacher as well. And plenty of schools I'm applying to ask for no 9th grade teachers... Any way you can use similar logic to get around it like I am?</p>
<p>I think if you've been working with your 9th grade teacher throughout high school, you could probably use them as a secondary recommendation, but I would choose a teacher, preferably from your junior year, as your main academic recommendation.</p>