<p>I already have one taken care of-my junior year English teacher asked me if she could-so just one left. I have two teachers in mind, both from sophomore year whose classes i did extremely well in. I still regularly converse with both of them and they both have expressed a fondness for me both as a person and as a student. First is my honors chemistry teacher who is very experienced but isn't asked by many people for rec letters to my knowledge. Second is my world history teacher who is also the advisor of my club that I started last year but she is very young, like 4th year teaching. I don't know if the subject they teach matters in terms of what I want to go on to study but I'm considering majoring in neuroscience or psychology.</p>
<p>So what do you guys think? Experienced honors chemistry teacher or young regular world history teacher and club advisor?</p>
<p>Science, for sure, since your other is non-science and you want to major in science.</p>
<p>They’d rather see a core subject teach from your Jr or Sr year.</p>
<p>I think, while subject-wise it would make sense to ask the science teacher (and not having so many recommendations to write could mean yours is that much better), as CatnPhx said, colleges would prefer to hear from a teacher from your junior or senior year. The fact that your history teacher is currently your club advisor means that she will have more current information and a broader range of experiences with you from which to draw.</p>
<p>Why not ask both? Whenever I’ve asked admission officers, they’ve always replied that they accept three instead of the standard two rec letters. </p>
<p>Chem teacher:
pros: Fondness as a person and student, did well in their class, plan to go into a related field, may gush about you in rec letter because not many ask them (?maybe?), has more experience with knowing what colleges look for
cons: inexperienced in writing rec letter because rarely asked</p>
<p>History:
pros: Knows you better as a person, knows you’re a good student, did well in their class, , has experience with your ECs, because she’s still interacting with you she is closer to being a junior/senior teacher than the chem teacher
cons: May know less about writing effective recs because she’s a younger teacher. </p>
<p>Honestly, I would get both.</p>
<p>Thanks for the opinions!</p>
<p>Yes I know they prefer core subject teachers from 11th/12th grade but I think having the teachers who know me the best write them is more important. Hopefully I’m right…haha</p>