<p>are recs from teachers who haven't taught very long substantially less credible?
I need a science rec for a scholarship, and a rec from 11/12 grade, so to kill 2 birds with 1 stone, I asked my current chem teacher. he is really young and this is only his second year teaching. However, he is a very good teacher. but when colleges see he only has 1 previous year of experience, will they smirk and look at it with less credibility. The other reason I asked this teacher is becuase he is the advisor for Science Club, for which I am president, so he can talk about class and science club.</p>
<p>Ask him. If you think he's going to write a better recommendation, then ask. In fact, I think his rec might actually be better than asking a veteran. If he has only a couple years of teaching experience, he probably hasn't written that many recs. Thus, it'd be less likely that he's just going to give you a formulaic rec that he's been churning out for everyone for years.</p>
<p>Haha I heard that younger teachers write better recs because they're more familiar with how important and crucial recs are since they've gone through the same thing a couple of years ago.</p>
<p>But it really depends from teacher to teacher.</p>
<p>Why would the teacher's experience even come up?</p>
<p>^ werd</p>
<p>I think adcoms care much more about what the rec says about YOU, rather than what the rec says about the recommender. I remember during a college visit, the princeton rep said that if you want to, you can even have your mom or dad send in a supp rec or something along those lines.</p>
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<p>On all of my forms, there was a question about how many years the teacher had been teaching.</p>