<p>Do you guys get Recommendations from your senior teachers or Junior teachers?</p>
<p>Since they have to be written toward the beginning of the year, it would probably generally be best to have your junior year teachers write them, just because they would have had you for a full year, whereas the senior teachers would have only had you for a couple months.</p>
<p>junior</p>
<p>10 char</p>
<p>If you're going to be doing Early, you really should get them from Junior teachers. However, if you feel that a Senior teacher would write a better recommendation you can usually ask him/her for an RD recommendation.</p>
<p>Senior teachers at this point.</p>
<p>I wanted one of my teachers that I had for 3 years to write a recommendation for me, however she's retiring this year...</p>
<p>You can still get her to write the recommendation, you will just have to try to stay in touch with her. I had my German teacher write (a fabulous) supplemental rec for me after she retired at the end of my junior year. No harm in asking politely right now and making plans to get in touch when you have everything figured out in the fall.</p>
<p>Yes.</p>
<p>In fact I had to get it from my senior year teachers... since we moved my Senior year.</p>
<p>Of course that means you have little time to make the good impression, so you have to hop to it! ;)</p>
<p>I got one from a Junior year teacher and a senior year teacher.</p>
<p>Would there be a problem with getting one from a sophomore teacher? I had a teacher that I really clicked with freshman year and who I did an independent project with sophomore year. We still keep in touch.</p>
<p>^ Of course not :)</p>
<p>?! really?</p>
<p>Ok. So I'm deciding to apply to NYU, USC, and maybe Boston College that require recommendations. Do I ask my 2 teachers to write 3 and send one to each college? or what? how does it work...
Also the teachers send the recommendations right? not the students..</p>
<p>Give the teachers the list of schools, and self addressed stamped envelopes, just double check with guidance.</p>
<p>My English teacher had taught me in my final 2 years of secondary school. My Mathematics teacher had taught me in my final 2 years as well but knew me as a student for a much longer time. My headmaster (who also wrote a letter of recommendation for me) had known me for a few years.</p>
<p>And yes, give your teachers the required forms (if the college provides a specific form for the teacher to fill out) and envelopes. My teachers got me to mail the envelopes myself after they had sealed and signed them.</p>
<p>Mom here, D a senior. Summer:You may wish to: Xerox form from university, write a letter to teacher(name to be filled in once you have confirmation that they will write) include deadline for recommendation, stamped & addressed envelope AND a resume of your extra-curricular activities/classes taken-including summer classes with grades/awards received. Keep a copy for each college file.My D asked teachers from Jr. year-and she asked them the first week of school. If they agreed-then the next day she gave them the packet.
She had asked a teacher at the end of Jr year if she would be willing to write a letter because that teacher was leaving at the end of JR year-she said yes--but then when asked again in the Fall-she said she had personal issues and unfortunately would not be able to write a letter. So...have a couple of teachers in mind.
If you are applying to several schools, you might set it up so that the teacher writes just 2 and no more than 3 letters. The forms can be time consuming, and the teacher will write a stronger letter if it is just a few. D marked the form stating she waived her right to read the teachers letter-thinking it would make it stronger in the eyes of admissions. You may or may not wish to do this-your call. In all but one teacher actually gave D a copy of the letter.
I also included a stamped note card so that the teacher could write down the date in which they sent the recommendation. That way if the deadline was coming up, D could follow up with the teacher and remind them to send in the paperwork. Remind the teacher that weather can be a factor in delivery, and if they could send the paperwork in early-say end of Thanksgiving-then you know it will be received before the Jan. 01 deadline.</p>
<p>if you are using the common app recommendation form, can't the teacher just copy the rec and send it to different schools?</p>
<p>you can't ask a 10th grade teacher, huh.</p>
<p>some colleges allow you to send recs from a 10th grade teacher.</p>