Recommendation requirements

Colleges and Universities A-Z Wesleyan University
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My son is interested in applying to Wes for class of 2023. I’m somewhat worried about the letter of recommendation requirements.

The application website states that “Two academic teacher evaluations are required. You are encouraged to submit one from a humanities or social sciences teacher and one from a math or science teacher.”

My kiddo is lopsided in interests. He gets good grades in his math and science classes, but he struggles and he’s not a happy student. His English, Psychology, arts, history, languages teachers all praise him to the skies, but he’s not likely to get a good letter from his math teachers or science teachers. He is getting three teacher recs in total, one from an English teacher, one from the teacher who taught him Psychology and US History, and one from the theatre teacher.

Have any of you had admission success at Wes with a lopsided student who submits two teacher recs that are both in humanities/social sciences? Or, conversely, two math/science teacher recs?

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@ninakatarina I think “encouraged” means you can use your judgment and do what you think will show his best strengths. My son is also more of a humanities guy. Like yours, he does well in his science and math classes but it’s not where his passions lie. He knew he’d get two great recs from his history/ English teachers, and so he went with that. (He did get 800 on math SAT so we felt like that shows he’s a decent math student and sort of makes up for no math rec.) He applied ED, so we’ll hear if he’s accepted within days. Good luck to you!