<p>I have 4 recommenders to choose from for college. Help me pick 2!</p>
<p>Teacher 1: Sophmore history teacher and sports coach. Knows me the best/jokes with me all the time, but is only an okay writer.</p>
<p>Teacher 2: junior english teacher. Thinks I am a good kid and student, but we aren't super close. Excellent writer.</p>
<p>Teacher 3: junior math teacher. He is super nice and an excellet writer. We are okay close, but I'm not a mathematical genius.</p>
<p>Teacher 4: junior science teacher. this is the field I want to go into. He knows how smart I am, and I am close to best in career here. But he doesn't know me to well as a person, not too close. Good writer.</p>
<p>HELP ME CHOOSE! thanks so much everyone!</p>
<p>More about me: impression as a semi-quiet smart kid until you get to know me, then I joke alot obnoxiously but wittily.</p>
<p>First, you want to pick Jr. teachers so forget #1. Second, depending on your major it is best to pick Math/Science for science majors or Eng/Hist for others but really it is the one who will write you the best rec. That means telling the teacher anything you think you would like them to include in the rec that they may not know about you.</p>
<p>And BTW, go ahead and have all three of the Jrs. write your rec because many schools will accept more than 2 or you can decide to send 2 of them to one school or 2 other one’s to another school.</p>
<p>Hi Lakemom,
Do you know if colleges want diversity?</p>
<p>For any major I mean, don’t they want one math/science and one english/history?</p>
<p>I see your point, it depends on what you are majoring in. My son had a rec from his history teacher and physics teacher. He is interested in engineering so could have had a calc teacher instead of the history one. The reason I say to get all three is that many of the schools he applied to allowed more than 2 so you can send all 3.</p>