<p>I'm currently a freshman in a big public school and it was hard for me during the first semester to get along with the professors. i'm planning to transfer as a sophomore and i could only get 2 recommendations from TAs: one physics TA and one english TA. I'm planning to major in engineering. the universities that i'm applying to are like cornell, upenn, columbia, etc. i got 4.0 and had decent ECs, SAT, rank, etc.</p>
<p>will the recs hurt my chances?</p>
<p>Defintely not. It doesn’t really matter to the university whether your letter of recomendation is from the president of the university or from an athletic coach. They want to hear a neutral perspective of your capacity to bring something to their campus. </p>
<p>If your TAs know you have great potential and will account for this than they will make for excellent letters of reccomendation.</p>
<p>I transferred from a big state school last year and all my recs were from TA’s. I got into both cornell and penn, along with six other highly ranked schools. You’ll be fine. Good luck!</p>