<p>Hi everyone!</p>
<p>I understand that some schools allow for an extra letter of recommendation, and some require that they cannot be a teacher/counselor (stanford for example). Does this mean no academic teachers only? What about elective teachers or teachers that coach a sport you are in or run an outside program? Are they considered ineligible to write a third letter?</p>
<p>Thanks!</p>
<p>Teachers can have multiple different roles. So, if an English teacher also coaches basketball and knows you as a basketball player and not as an English student, that would be fine.</p>
<p>Thanks! And what about my emergency medicine teacher? Do schools make a distinction between academic teachers (teaching core classes like English and math) vs. elective teachers?</p>
<p>I’m fairly certain that they don’t make that distinction. If your emergency medicine teacher knows you in some other way outside of the classroom, then you could probably use him/her.</p>
<p>Look, what they don’t want is six different people all saying the same thing: he’s a good student, he’s a good student, he’s a good student . . . </p>
<p>So, if your emergency medicine teacher would say something completely different, then that’s fine. But if it’s just another class, in a classroom, and is indistinguishable from your other classes, then I’d say no.</p>