Teacher Recommendations

<p>Older sister still insists on asking more questions hehehe ^-^</p>

<p>Does the teacher that teachers a specific subject really matter when giving recommendations?</p>

<p>i.e: I'm Asian and I go to my chinese teacher for recommendations.. and assume that the Adcom would see both of our ethnicity as a biased feeling towards one another? :O </p>

<p>Uhm it's kind of hard to explain^</p>

<p>And rather than that getting a recommendation from a foreign-language teacher, would it be best to get a recommendation from a teacher in an AP class or just any math, science, literature class in general?</p>

<p>Thanks!</p>

<p>I’m pretty much in the same boat as you… I’m Asian and asking my Chinese teacher for a rec as well. I think its best to ask for teacher recs from the teachers that like you the most - regardless of subject or ethnicity. Praise will usually overshadow any negatives.</p>

<p>Race doesn’t matter. For all they know, your school only has Asian teachers. You won’t get penalized for that.</p>

<p>It depends on the school. Some schools, (I think like CMU) will ask for a rec from a humanities teacher and a rec from a science/math teacher. Or something like that.
Most don’t care - they tell you to get a rec from the teacher that really really likes you.</p>

<p>Okay thank you everybody for the input :)</p>