<p>I understand that many schools, including Harvard, wish to receive a recommendation from a math/science teacher, and also on from a humanities teacher.
I have already asked my Latin teacher who knows me very well, I have had her for three of my four years of Latin.
My problem is that I have many English/ history teachers that know me well, and one science teacher that I am thinking of asking. The science teacher tought me in freshman Biology, in which I did quite well, and I now have her for APES.
I think she can write a good recommendation, but I don't feel as sure about the quality of it as I am with the Latin teacher's. Advice?</p>
<p>MIT has some great advice about what they are looking for from teacher reccomendations: [Writing</a> Recommendations | MIT Admissions](<a href=“http://mitadmissions.org/apply/prepare/writingrecs]Writing”>How to write good letters of recommendation | MIT Admissions)</p>
<p>Your teacher recommendations are the second most important part of your application file (your transcript being the first). So, to be blunt, you don’t want to screw it up by asking the wrong teacher.</p>
<p>Colleges are looking to hear from teachers who will RAVE about your potential as a scholar in the classroom. They want to hear about your intellectual passion, outstanding writing abilities, critial reasoning, and the way you led classroom discussions. You should pick teachers who can address these topics, not necessarily because they taught a certain subject. You need teachers who can attest to your maturity and character.</p>
<p>If your Latin teacher can do that, go with him or her. Then, you need to find another teacher who will remember you as one of the best students they have had in their teaching career.</p>
<p>It doesn’t matter a ton. If your best two recommendations are from your Latin and your English teacher, that’s totally fine. I don’t think there’s any data to be publicly had, but anecdotally, it worked out for me. I had a physics recommendation all written up from my EA round (the EA school required a math/science rec), but decided to send only history and Latin to my RD schools. And here I am. Basically, as Gibby said, go for whoever’d write you the strongest recommendations. Don’t get two from the exact same subject (US and Euro history: no.). Other than that, don’t worry about which subjects your recommenders teach.</p>
<p>Both posters here have given good advice.</p>
<p>Thanks for all the advice everybody, it looks like my science teacher does know me a little better than I originally thought, so I’m hoping that it will all work out for the best!</p>