<p>My Pre-Calculus Honors teacher emailed me a letter of recommendation for next year since she won't becoming back to my school. Math has always been my top subject and I have always excelled in it. I plan on majoring in actuarial science, mathematics, or finance and I wanted her to give me a great letter. I believed she would, as I have never missed a single point on homework or tests and also helped tutor her geometry and other pre-cal students. </p>
<p>I read the letter she sent (am i technically not allowed to do that ) and it was..........blah. She had written me another recommendation for a actuarial science program and that was way better than this one. She said she didn't have much time and it definitely shows</p>
<p>I just wanted to know if I have time to get a great letter from my AP Calc teacher next year. It'll be my first time having her as a teacher so I'll only have the first few months of school to impress her. Or should I just use my recs from my History AP and English AP teachers from junior year</p>
<p>Personally, I believe it does not matter which teacher writes your letter of rec but the content in the letter which really matters. I would definitely ask your English teacher for a letter. My daughter is leaning toward majoring in Biology but asked her English teacher for a letter. </p>
<p>I saw the letter that she prepared and it was wonderful. She spoke of my daughter as a student but also a person, mentioning the compassion she saw in my daughter as she helped her special needs sister transition to middle school. </p>
<p>I am sure the letter impacted those who read it and it meant so much to me that others saw her character.</p>
<p>The person who writes your letter can be a teacher that you have class with or even a teacher you work with in your EC. </p>
<p>Good luck.</p>
<p>How does Recs work? Do they send it to the school or do they give it to you? I never really understood it.</p>
<p>If it’s a weak rec… don’t use it.</p>
<p>That stinks that you got a crummy one when you put effort into making sure the teacher would have great things to write about you. Oh well… off to the English teacher!</p>
<p>(And as a side note, I don’t think it would be fair to your AP Calc teacher to have him/her know you for 3 months and then expect him/her to provide a letter for you.)</p>
<p>Yeah… that’s tricky. I was in a situation like yours where I had really no math/science teachers that would write me a strong recommendation letter. If you’re applying EA/ED, then I think the AP calc letter would be mediocre if not worse since the teacher will hardly know you. But here is a little tricky that you could try, you say to the teacher that you need the recommendation and will draft the letter first and then let him/her add and change stuff. This way, you have some asurrance. good luck!</p>
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You could also do the same with your Pre-Calculus teacher. The teacher obviously likes you and would maybe appreciate the chance to do better.</p>