People always tell me that when I apply to colleges, I should get recommendations from my senior year teachers. Do colleges care too much if I get recommendations from classes that I took junior year or should I still get them from my senior year teachers?
One reason I’m asking is because I know I’ll get awesome recommendations from my junior year teachers (they already wrote me recommendations for an internship, and they all recommended me extremely well).
Thanks for the help!
<p>I always thought it was the opposite, not to get recommendations from senior year teachers, unless you previously had them. After all, it makes sense. You want someone who knows you well; how well can a teacher from senior year know you when you've only had her for 3-4 months?</p>
<p>Sorry to hijack this thread...
In my country we have 6 years high school....</p>
<p>My latin/classic culture teacher taught me from the first year to the fifth class. Only she is now reassigned to another class. So she isn't my teacher anymore in my last year. Is she still a good candidate to write my recommendation??</p>
<p>I think that if the teacher knows you very well.. and 4-5 yrs. seems pretty good.. it will add weight to ur application... so go for it.</p>
<p>When the admissions officer reads your rec, they are looking for phrases such as "Tom is one of the best students I have had in my twenty-two years of teaching" or "Becky's fellow students seem in awe of her as if they think she is going to be President of the United States someday." Basically you want to find somebody who will say the nicest things about you. I would not worry about what they taught or what year they taught it. However, they do want the rec to come from a teacher in one of your core courses.</p>
<p>Recent is better (e.g., senior vs. freshman teacher), but as dufus notes choosing a teacher who can write persuasively about you is important, too. A teacher in your intended area of study will be better than one is an peripheral class.</p>
<p>overall... try to avoid teachers in Grades 9 or 10 and focus more upon Grade 11... since that is the hardest year and the teachers know you what you have gone through academically and personally.</p>
<p>Yes, the OP was about junior vs senior year teachers. I would keep away from using teachers from freshman or sophomore year.</p>