<p>Hi all,</p>
<p>So my first choice is Princeton, then a couple others that are up there in scope, but the question I had was about a third teacher recommendation. I know a couple schools like Stanford absolutely won't accept a third, but then there are a couple like Princeton and Yale that would prefer you don't, but will still accept them. Here's my case basically:</p>
<p>My first teacher rec is my ninth grade world history and senior year military history teacher who is also my debate coach and knows me probably the best, just with everything I do in general and some of the issues I have at home as well.</p>
<p>My second teacher rec is my junior year literature teacher who knows me extremely well mostly on the personal ideals and my philosophy, how I view life, and my depth of critical analysis with the literature we read. I'm also a writer so he reads all that for me and we talk about the questions I ask in my writing and what not. He also knows my background family issues.</p>
<p>Both are probably my best choices, but then here's another:</p>
<p>My sophomore year BC Calc teacher, junior year Lin Algebra/Math Reasoning teacher, who I've actually known since freshman year through battle of the brains, and he's my sponsor for a club I've founded called Students for Liberty that's an intellectual inquiry club dedicated to studying the ideal of a society of free individuals. My other two teachers don't really know that much about the club, while this teacher obviously knows most since he's the sponsor and sees first hand everything I do with it. </p>
<p>I kind of have a hunch that this is good enough to merit a third rec since he'll be adding new insights to my character, but will schools like Yale or Princeton feel like I was trying too hard or something? Typically a third rec comes from like a coach or mentor, but since this is a teacher, I thought maybe schools won't like it that much.</p>
<p>Thanks,</p>
<p>Nichomachean</p>