<p>On Columbia's website, they say that they take two teacher recs, and both recs must be from an academic teacher. Now, I have three teachers who could write me great academic recs. </p>
<p>One is a history teacher from my junior year, another is an English teacher from tenth grade. Both of these teachers are known for writing great recs. I'm especially close with my English teacher, but I did well in both courses. The third is a math teacher who has taught me for two years: I did badly in his course the first year, but did drastically better in the second course. I don't know, however, how good he is at writing recs.</p>
<p>-Which teachers would do you think I should ask for a recommendation from?</p>
<p>Also: I have another teacher who is my activity's advisor for a couple of the clubs I'm involved in and have leadership positions in. I'm very close with this teacher and I'm pretty sure that a recommendation would be very good and add to my application.</p>
<p>-Should I send in a recommendation...or at least just a letter, from my activity's advisor?</p>
<p>I would say that the decision of who's gonna give you the recs shall depend on the major you're looking forward to. I mean, it's not a rule, but that's what my advice would be: if you're a humanities guy, then combine English and History, but if you're going for something where your math improvement counts, send that.
As for your activities teacher, I'm not quite sure about it, I think that as long as you mention your participation in any extracurricular activities in an essay or something like that, that should be enough.I wouldn't waste a rec in that.
Good luck</p>
<p>I went with my biology teacher and english teacher because I'll be majoring in biology/premed and some of my biggest ECs were political/social studies related</p>
<p>I don't know if it helped or not, but I wanted to show that I was well-rounded. I chose an English teacher because that will most likely be my major and my chem teacher because it shows that I can do both. One thing you may want to consider is what courses these teachers taught you. I would send a rec from an honors or AP teacher over a regular teacher assuming, of course, that they will be equally glowing. It shows that you do well in accelerated classes dealing with more difficult material.</p>