<p>also, is it ok to get recommendations from TAs?</p>
<p>I was wondering the same thing; is it frowned upon to submit a recommendation from a professor you've only known for a couple months?</p>
<p>yeah im not sure.....i know i can get everything else done properly: essays, grades, whatnot..</p>
<p>it's just this recommendation business is tricky because either A) you have to stick out in a matter of 3-4 months or B) you have to know the professor well enough</p>
<p>both are very hard to do and considering that im trying to transfer to wharton or harvard....ugh</p>
<p>a good way to get to know your professors is be yourself and ask for more! I'm getting on of my recs from a teacher in which I haven't even taken a test yet but I'm very confident in what he will have to say. I am able to have comfortable conversations about whatever AND academics and I think that is key. oh yeah, and do well in the class.</p>
<p>If you haven't already, read the Transfer Admissions 101 sticky thread. These topics are covered there.</p>
<p>Yes, it's okay to get recs from TA's. Sometimes TA's and profs collaborate on the rec, because the TA knows you more as a participant etc, and the prof may know your written work (or not). In any case, a TA can write the rec.</p>
<p>I'm a little confused about the idea of a 2nd semester prof writing a rec due around March 15. What do you have in mind? There is certainly nothing wrong with it, but wouldn't you only have known the prof for 6 weeks~? Or, are you thinking of a prof that you would have had first term and then continue with into the 2nd term?</p>
<p>For ideas on how to get to know profs well, look at <a href="http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/showthread.php?t=350103%5B/url%5D">http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/showthread.php?t=350103</a>, also copied on that sticky thread, I think.</p>