<p>Hello.
In high school, you can easily have certain teachers paired up with you for certain courses more than once, but in university, you rarely get same professor more than once.
Please tell me how you can have professors write you ref./rec. letters for you if all of them taught you for only 1 semester and therefore don't know much about you?
Thanks.</p>
<p>In large classes, a professor basically has no chance of even learning your name - especially if you only have that professor once. However, there are ways to make yourself known. You can sit in the front row everyday so you look familiar, and also go to office hourse for extra help on the material. By the end of the semester they should know who you are and what your abilities are as a student & that's all you need for a letter of recommendation.</p>
<p>Also, if you do undergraduate research with a professor, then they can really get to know you well.</p>
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<li>Answer/ask questions in class</li>
<li>Go to office hours</li>
<li>possibly work on research (but usually you have to do the first two before you can even get to this point)</li>
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<p>Basically anything that is one-on-one interaction. Otherwise, they're not going to remember your name.</p>
<p>And sometimes I do have professors twice - this semester I have a professor I had last spring (and no, I'm not repeating the course, he's teaching something else :))</p>
<p>try to find some smaller classes where the professor actually knows all the students.</p>
<p>Hmm, large LD classes are hard to get LoR's from. I think you would have to go to Office Hours and ask some good questions for professors to really get to know you. It can be done, because in my bio class of 200+, the professor does know some students on a first name basis (which is good). Otherwise, just take some small Upper div classes and shine.</p>
<p>In my psych class of 600 students, my professor knows me on a first name basis. I guess he knew my name because I had asked him some questions pertaining to the lecture and applied it in real life situations, and I believe once, he asked me to stop by after class. So when I had stopped by, I told him I was the one who emailed him about XYZ. </p>
<p>Basically, I've been emailing him questions (his office hours conflict with my schedule) and I have asked him questions after class (and they were good questions, or so he thought.) </p>
<p>Also, I hadn't done so hot on an exam (got the same score as the first one) and I had scheduled an appointment with him and we talked about the exam and a book that I am reading that he mentioned in class and that he has been reading. (very interesting book btw). His face lit up when I had mentioned that I bought it and when he went out and bought it, the clerk told him that someone else had ordered that book also. (So he found out it was me). </p>
<p>And I found out that he is teaching another psych class next semester, and I have signed up for his class. (I'm thinking about majoring in psych and I'd rather take a class with a professor I know is good and knows me, rather than a professor who might not be good.)</p>
<p>Do something to connect with your professor, but please don't try to know them for a reccomendation. I think they can tell the difference between someone befriending them for a rec and someone who is genuinely interested in the class.</p>