<p>I'm wondering whether there are any schools (top 20) that doesn't require you to send recommendations from each the science and the language department.</p>
<p>What I mean by here is that are there any schools (again, top 20) that does not specify whom you can get the recommendations from? for example, one from a math and the other from chemistry; both in the same department.</p>
<p>If anyone know a school that allows this, it would be great help if you can post the name of the school below.</p>
<p>i applied to northwestern and uchicago, there are no requirements about WHERE they come from at those schools. I got one rec from my COUNSELOR and one from an astronomy teacher.</p>
<p>My son's high school guidance counsellor discouraged him from using his Latin teacher as a recommendation - not a core enough subject apparently. He used him anyway, and it was fine. His second recommendation was from his art teacher - which they really weren't happy with. He ended up having to get a recommendation from an English teacher from one school - Yale as I recall - when they would not count the art teacher in the required tally.</p>
<p>I looked at UChicago's the other day, and I think they wanted them from humanities and the science/math thing. Lucky for me, teh German teacher I wanted to ask was also my english teacher sophomore year (plus I'mgetting my adv Chem/ap chem/physics b teacher to do one)</p>
<p>so it looks like only a handful of schools allows you to send in recs from one department area: NU, Chicago, Princeton, and I assume slightly more that haven't been mentioned.</p>
<p>I will be applying to school of arts & science, not engineering, so I guess trying to beat the system to get recs from math/chem teacher is out of the picture.</p>
<p>Thanks for helping out; I'd appreciate more input tho!
btw, for all of you seniors: when do you plan on asking the teachers for a rec? (*this question relates to the regular admission)</p>
<p>As early as possible, no matter when the deadline.</p>
<p>And the reasons for this include common courtesy (allowing teachers more time to write it, especially if they ask for additional information from you) and not having to worry about tackling things too closely to the deadline.</p>
<p>I distributed the forms, resumes, transcripts, etc. that my teachers recommended to them on the first week of school, even though some of them don't deadlines until around the new year.</p>
<p>(P.S. I think Duke does not care about the recommendations coming from different areas, but I'm not sure. I'm also very interested in knowing which schools don't at least suggest the evaluations come from different places, but I don't think there are any schools that would reject you on the basis of not having recommendations that were relatively narrow if the two you provide speak well of you as a student/person.)</p>
<p>WUStL, Brown, Yale, and Penn -- those are the top 20 places my daughter applied to that didn't specify where the recommendations had to come from. (WUStL only wants one recommendation.)</p>