<p>The school I'm applying to requires 2 recommendations. I've already gotten one teacher to write me one (and she writes very good, candid recommendations). I recently went to a 4-week summer program for science and math and was contemplating asking my professor there to write my second recommendation. Does status in a recommendation really matter - would college officials be impressed with a recommendation from a college professor? I'm sure he would be able to write substantial stuff about me, but then again I only worked with him for 4 weeks at a summer camp... Would asking a teacher I had for a semester be a better alternative?</p>
<p>Most colleges prefer recs from your high school teachers. However, the professor can serve as an additional rec beyond the required.</p>
<p>^^I agree. Get a second HS teacher and you can use the professor as an extra. Colleges don’t mind one additional recommendation, especially if one is outside of a normal school context – they just don’t want ten that say the exact same thing.</p>
<p>Wait, I wasn’t clear enough in the first post. The university actually requires one recommendation, and allows only one extra (two recs total, max). So I should proceed with a second HS teacher rec and not worry about the college professor at all…?</p>
<p>If it only requires one, then you can use the professor as the additional.</p>