<p>I had about three teachers write me a recommendation letter and fill out the teacher evaluation sheet, one of whom was an art teacher. Since she was new to this whole TR thing, and since she is an art teacher (she is therefore unaware of my actual intellectual/writing ability) she had just put mid 50% most of the categories that she had no idea about. On the other hand my English teacher, for example, gave me top 1%. </p>
<p>Do you think colleges catch that the teacher eval. was in fact written by an art teacher, and therefor realize that my rating done by her on intellectual ability and writing ability are not accurate? Should I send colleges an email about this concern? </p>
<p>Please let me know what you think.... thanks in advance!</p>
<p>Usually colleges aren’t interested in reccs from arts teachers. The colleges want reccs from teachers of core academic subjects: math, science, English, history, foreign languages.</p>
<p>I doubt that the art teacher recc is going to hurt you. Don’t bother to e-mail the college. Do, however, make sure that you sent the kind of reccs the colleges requested because often colleges specifically ask for, for instance, a recc from an English teacher and a recc from a science or math teacher.</p>
<p>You probably realize this now, but I’m mentioning this for others who may be reading this thread: It’s a bad idea to ask for a recc from a teacher who has no personal knowledge of things like your intellectual ability that the teacher would have to assess for the college.</p>