<p>I'm trying to get together my letters of recommendation and am having a few doubts. I'm weak in math yet I'm applying to mostly engineering schools/engineering dept.s for computer science. </p>
<p>I know I can get a fairly nice rec from my math teacher for this year, and wonder if it would help to have him behind me despite my mediocre math scores. However, I've only known him since the beginning of this year, and it would probably be more difficult for him to write about me than it would be for some of my other teachers.</p>
<p>Case in point: my computer science teacher. I've known him since my sophomore year and I know I could get a glowing review from him. But is compsci considered a serious class? (For that matter, does it count as an "academic" class as many recommendations forms require?)</p>
<p>Computer science is definately an important class, especially if that's what you want to study. Some colleges will even take recommendations from employyers if the student has a job. So the subject really doesn't matter. Although if you want to be safe, just ask another teacher from a main subject.</p>
<p>Thanks, and I do take it seriously as a class. I'm just particularly worried about schools asking for recs from a teacher of an 'academic' class or a 'math/science' class. It's AP Computer Science AB, if that matters.</p>
<p>Why wouldn't it be considered an academic course? Don't you do programming, like C, Pascal, Java, or the sorts? Programming is one the toughest and most rigorous classes available.
You don't just stay there and play all day, do you?:P</p>
<p>Yeah, we do Java 'cause that's the curriculum for AP, but some friends and I are also looking into c++ on our own. Since the AP switched to only java, It's hard now to find a class in anything else :</p>
<p>Thanks for the replies, guys. I guess I've just been affected by the general attitude surrounding compsci at my school, which is that it is a blow-off class. And it's true, I guess, b/c the teacher lets you get away with anything and we never have due dates. However, if you treat it seriously and actually do the assignments, it's a great class and I see no reason why it shouldn't be considered an academic class. I'm just a little paranoid. ;P</p>