<p>Good day.</p>
<p>I had been in a lot of science fair/computer science olympiads. I know very very well about 5 university teacher, they judged me but they didn't teach me. Each of them wanted to write me a recommendation. One of these recommendation will be the additional recommendation.</p>
<p>I was wondering if another university teacher can send me recommendation as a teacher recommendation even he didn't teach me.</p>
<p>you should have 2 standard recommendations from teachers who have taught you in HS. If you took a college class, that is ok too.</p>
<p>The teachers you mentioned should be “additional” recommendations, which most schools allow.</p>
<p>HC: the reason for teacher rec letters is to get commentary on a broad area of your achievement: academic achievement and initiative, inquisitiveness, leadership, character, influence on fellow students.</p>
<p>Colleges feel actual teachers of courses you’ve taken, are the ones best able to provide these anecdotes and observations. You can see why colleges would prefer an instructor, over many months of a class, rather than another person who adjudicates your work for a competition. You can send any rec letter you wish but it’s highly probable that a judging professor will not share anything more useful than an actual teacher of yours in class. </p>
<p>Submit one judging professor’s rec letter as a third, supplemental rec letter.</p>
<p>MIT provides great insight on what top schools WANT from rec letters:
<a href=“http://mitadmissions.org/apply/prepare/writingrecs[/url]”>http://mitadmissions.org/apply/prepare/writingrecs</a></p>
<p>Thank you both</p>