<p>I am a senior that is in a dilemma because of the recommendation.</p>
<p>I have a lot of teachers that i could ask for a recommendation because I am usually nice to them and have a positive influence in the class.</p>
<p>My question was that</p>
<p>Does the career (which college the teachers went to and which jobs they had) matter for my recommendation?
Do colleges actually check the profiles of the teachers that i get the recommendation from?</p>
<p>What if i get a recommendation from a math teacher and her English isn't too good, is that a negative influence on my resume?</p>
<p>They don’t check on the backgrounds of teachers. A math teacher with imperfect grammar isn’t a big deal either. Now if you asked your AP English Lit teacher to write one and it was bad – now THAT would be a problem! (and I know it’s happened before too!).</p>
<p>The only things you must consider are a) how well the person knows you on both personal and academic levels and b) who will say the best things about you? Do you show a good, unique side of yourself in certain classes and not others? Think who will do the best job for you–the teachers are not aiming to get into college!</p>
<p>The teacher isn’t the one trying to get into the school. You are. Colleges are generally going to trust that your school wasn’t idiotic in hiring teachers. They care about what the teacher has to say about you as a student, not about where the teacher went to school.</p>
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<p>It’s your writing the colleges care about, not your math teacher’s. As long as the teacher can get the point across, it doesn’t matter how well he or she writes.</p>