<p>For virtually schooled daughter. Possible to use a French tutor (supplementing her online course) who knows her better than most of her other online teachers, and has face to face contact? Tutor is also a prof at a local university, so is extremely well qualified.
What have others done for recs for home/virtual schooled kids?</p>
<p>We haven't yet, but some good options would be :</p>
<p>Additional teachers/tutors used over the years
Mentors for research projects
Supervisors for work or volunteering
Coaches
Youth group leaders</p>
<p>For my son:</p>
<p>(we are going to have to choose)</p>
<p>He is on a math team (ARML) so his coach
He has a job teaching competition math at a local enrichment center, so the director </p>
<p>(both the above were used to get my son into a very prestigious precollege program this summer)</p>
<p>He volunteers to teach Mathcounts kids, and assists in teaching an AIME prep class, so the AIME teacher</p>
<p>The man in charge of the above program.</p>
<p>The man in charge of another math program my son attends. He is a prof a UCLA and used to be on the admissions committee at MIT, and an alum interviewer at Princeton. </p>
<p>For a bit of well roundedness - he took an AP History class with our local HSing group, so we will use the teacher for the humanities rec.</p>
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<p>Thinking outside the box:</p>
<p>I recently met a magazine writer/editor. He writes a column in a children's magazine where he answers questions. For several years, his most prolific questioner was a homeschooled girl. Her mother asked him to write a rec. She got into her first choice. I thought that was great.</p>
<p>I only had one academic rec, a private music teacher. Since I needed two more, I asked my supervisor from work and a lady I volunteered for to write mine. The college was very understanding of the fact that, as a home schooler, I would not have many teachers who knew me in a academic setting. Besides, I think having multiple recs from a variety of settings attested to how well-rounded I was... that I wasn't a homeschooler who kept her nose in the books all day.</p>
<p>So, a private French tutor is OK? My daughter doesn't strictly home school- she is getting her degree thru IUHS, and her courses are all online.</p>
<p>I think the French tutor will be great. Yes, people in admissions will definitely understand a lack of traditional teachers, and I imagine they'd prefer at least one rec who knows your daughter in person.</p>