<p>If the recommendation from my English teacher is stronger than the recommendation from my math teacher, would MIT especially care? </p>
<p>Background for my concerns: </p>
<p>I'm applying to MIT early action, and I identify myself to be primarily a science person. My junior physics teacher, however, writes cookie-cutter recommendations, so I asked my math teacher for my recommendation instead. My math teacher knows me as the type of work-hard-and-involved-in-everything student... but she also knows me as the student who didn't really do her math homework (because I was too busy doing everything else). The class was AP Calculus AB, and I think all the material was pretty easy... I generally didn't have problems with anything, except for errors sometimes because I was just so tired while taking my tests (math testing day was Monday, the worst day of the week). I got a 5 on the AP exam, but I only got a 90 for my class grade. It will be the lowest grade on my transcript. On the other hand, I excelled in my English class, so I asked my English teacher for a recommendation as well, and I think it will end up being stronger than my math recommendation. My AP English Language grade was a 4, but I got a 98 for the course (the highest grade on my transcript for a main subject course), and I'm a good writer (EIC of school newspaper)it was the multiple choice that got me on the English AP. Aside from all this though, assume the rest of my application is pretty solid. What do you think?</p>