<p>D is a junior interested in majoring in EE/CS at a school that offers a balance of both engineering and liberal arts majors (Stanford, for example, rather than MIT). Would such a school prefer a strong rec from her Math teacher or a rave from her History teacher.</p>
<p>It isn't that she's not just as strong (or stronger) in Math as in the other subjects academically, but her Math teacher doesn't know her as well, having only had her for one year. Math also doesn't lend itself to discussion in class so she has found differentiating herself harder. She's got plenty of quant ECs (math team, etc...) but her junior year teacher isn't the sponsor.</p>
<p>Why not both since most schools want 2 teacher recs?</p>
<p>Yeah, most schools want 2 recs from different areas. So, most of the prospective engineers at my high school got one from a math/science teacher and an english/history/language teacher. Stanford will definitely care about both, as they are admitting you to the school, not the engineering program. </p>
<p>I got a rec from my english teacher (we were pretty tight) and my math teacher. I was a better chemistry student, and I really stood out academically, but my math teacher liked me more, so I got the rec from him. The only reason I wouldn’t have gotten a humanities rec is if: I was applying to Caltech (or a similar school, not MIT, Cal or Stanford) and my humanities teachers hated me.</p>
<p>I should have probably clarified that her first recommendation-defintely a rave-is from her English teacher. So she has a choice of two liberal arts teacher raves, or one English teacher rave plus one solid rec from her Math teacher (instead of a rave from her History teacher).</p>
<p>Probably the math teacher then. She’s going into engineering most likely; I’ve never heard of a prospective engineer submitting two humanities recs. I haven’t even heard of any normal applicants getting two humanities recs, although I’m sure it’s been done.</p>