<p>I'm starting to get extremely worried as I will have to ask two of my teachers to write a rec for me in my upcoming senior year...</p>
<p>this just leaves 3 months of time to really get to know each other.</p>
<p>I do maintain a straight A in most of my classes but my teacher-student relationship seems to be very dull... my teacher hardly knows me or that she thinks I'm a slacker/procrastinator..</p>
<p>and I think its sorta tooo late to change that image as a whole entire semester and a month has passed...</p>
<p>ah, i have a similar problem. i know of one teacher that i can ask, but i'm somewhat worried because earlier this year she said she wasnt going to write recs for anyone next year... but i'm not sure she's allowed to do that and im not too sure she's going to follow through on that. i dont know of any of my other teachers that i can really ask...</p>
<p>She can definitely do that if she wants, she isn't required to write recs. I had one teacher I knew well and she wrote a great one. The other, well, I knew him and he knew a lot through my writing, but not a whole lot personally. Hopefully that one is okay. </p>
<p>My brit lit teacher who was talking about the recs she wrote last year "I wrote about 30 recs and meant at most 3 of them."</p>
<p>My girlfriend applied to a whole bunch ivies this year and got into Hopkins. She doesnt know the teachers very well either. I mean she is totally awesome in all her subjects but just doesnt talk much in class. </p>
<p>So she just give each teacher a sheet that contains everything she did in high school and talked with each of them a few times. And I didnt think that the recs were bad at all. </p>
<p>yeah so I'm a junior and I've been thinking of possible teacher recommendations for next year. I know I would want my AP Lit and AP Psych teacher to recommend but I don't know about my Newspaper teacher. She is 26, pretty hot and we've hung around a lot outside of school. Considering that she is also my Water polo coach and that my friends and I always go to movies with her and hang at her house, I don't really consider her a teacher. She knows me by far the best out of all the other teachers, but she doesn't have that authority present in teacher recommendations. I'm afraid she'll write something like: "He is really nice...bought popcorn for all of us at the movies this one time". So I'm wondering if I should ask her to write a recommendation for me.</p>
<p>H20poloer, to me, your coach/newspaper teacher seems like the perfect teacher to write a rec for you. I've learned from (my very limited) experience that the teachers who know you best will try the hardest on your recommendations. She'll try to touch on all her perceptions of you - from the classroom to the pool to maybe even the theater (as a lighter note). </p>
<p>Though then again, she probably hasn't had a lot of experience with writing recs, since she's young. My Chem teacher (27), who had only been teaching for like 3 years, wrote such a short and banal rec (not to mention she made some stuff up about my lab reports and stuff :))...but I guess she just didn't know me as well as I thought she did.</p>
<p>I say to ask her. It seems like she would be able to give insight onto both your personality and work ethic as a student and athlete that an admissions committee would love to read about.</p>
<p>i also have very good relations with my newspaper teacher, whos also pretty young but she's been teaching for a long time, i think shes a definite rec for me.</p>
<p>other than that i dont really have good relations with my other teachers. my spanish teacher just likes me becasue i do well on tests and always do her homework, but she doesnt know me. all my other ones either don't know me very well.</p>
<p>what are the requirements for recommendations? do they have to necessarily be from public school teachers? I go to chinese school on saturdays, and my chinese school teacher would be an excellent person to get a rec from.</p>