Say you ask an AP teacher for a reccomendation in a class that you’ve been getting great grades in all year. However, on the AP test, you get a 2. Will the AP teacher write you a bad reccomendation even though they agreed to writing it before the scores came out?
While I can’t speak for everyone, few out here are mindreaders. The only person who knows what your AP teacher will write is the teacher.
Every student asking for recs should ask the teacher(s) whether they can write a positive letter for you. This is always appropriate, phrased politely of course. While it can be uncomfortable for a student to ask a direct question like this to a teacher I would never assume a teacher will write a positive rec.
In “The Gatekeepers”,in which a NY Times reporter followed the admissions committee at Wesleyan for a year, is a real-world example of a bad rec. Obviously when the student asked for a rec she assumed it would be positive, but here is what she got:
This could have been avoided if the teacher had been asked if they would write a strong rec. The student did not get in
Maybe see what you actually get when the AP scores come out and make a call at that time. If it’s a 2, I would probaby shift to the next best option.
Hopefully I didn’t get a 2. Would a 3 be bad?
Once again, nobody can predict. Talk to the teacher.