<p>i'm submitting two teacher recommendations, one from my AP Euro teacher sophomore year and my AP US teacher junior year. i know without a doubt that i want to be a history major and a big part of the reason why i love columbia so much is the history program (eric foner!), so i figured the two history recs would should that i really have passion for the subject, but my college counselor says i should choose an english teacher or someone else to balance it out. also, i know they discourage sophomore year recs, but my euro teacher is a mentor of mine and knows me not only inside but outside of the classroom (he's even helped me with some mixtapes) and his class is the reason why i fell in love with history. my ap us teacher has been writing recs for 25 years and i was just a great student in her class, so her rec is a no brainer. </p>
<p>anyway...i'm really torn on what to do. my junior year english teacher has already written a rec for me, but i really want to do the two history teachers. any suggestions? do colleges really want to see two different subjects being represented in teacher recs?</p>
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<p>for my high school, it was the ap euro/ap gov teacher that was the go to person for recs. this has plenty of disadvantages tho...just because you may have done well in the class, doesnt mean you will get a good rec. sure it may be written well but it will also be very generic (unless of course s/he knows you outside of class as well)</p>
<p>remember, a generic rec may not hurt you but it certainly wont help especially since you will presumably write something about your love for history in other parts of your app.</p>
<p>and if you read some of the chances/applying threads you will know that columbia cares VERY DEEPLY about well rounded students. why not try something different and do a teacher from something outside of the humanities? math, science, foreign language...anything other than history or english</p>
<p>yea i agree with ur counselor, u shouldn't have two recs from the same subject....that's not what they'r looking for....they're looking for two recs that will demonstrate different parts of your personality to show a complete picture of who you are....you don't want them to think you're one-sided. If the soph yr teacher knew you or worked with you or interacted with you extensively after soph yr then i don't see why there would be a prob with it.</p>