<p>So I was curious about recommendation letters. Does the educational status/ prestige that a teacher have affect the weight that their letter would bring? And what is the recommeneded number to send? Is there a limit? Please... advice?</p>
<p>What the person says about you, which depends on how well they know you, far outweighs what their background is. You could get a letter from your principal, but if he/she can only offer generic words of phrase and parrot your resume, then it’s still a bad letter of recommendation.</p>
<p>Most schools, I think, require two: one from a humanities (history, English, art) teacher, and one from a math/science teacher.</p>
<p>Well my Physics teacher has had me for two years and knows me well. He has the Presidential Award for Math and Sciences and is very accomplished. I also had a math teacher that wrote me one, she knew me very well and wrote heavily about my character. Should I just send them both?</p>
<p>A rec letter doesn’t start with: “Here is the school I attended and the honors I attained…”</p>
<p>YOu want to ask the person who can best write you this:
[Writing</a> Recommendations | MIT Admissions](<a href=“http://mitadmissions.org/apply/prepare/writingrecs]Writing”>How to write good letters of recommendation | MIT Admissions)</p>