<p>Hi, all
I'm new to the forum and applying to college this year. I know most schools asks for 2 teacher recommendation letter, but here's the thing: I have 2 high school teachers that know me pretty well and both taught me 2 years including one year of AP. They are Chem. and History teachers. And this year as a senior, I'm the lab assistant for one and teacher's aide for another. So I think they were good choices to get rec. from. The history teacher I know and know me more personally, but the chem teacher thinks I'm one of the best students she's had. So it's hard to decide between the 2. But also I am taking a college course at a local community college Math 279: ordinary differential equation. I'm doing really well in the class and helping others and the teacher. In the last 2 tests I got both 100%, whereas a lot of people failed. The professor I have agrees to write me rec. letter too. I think it's probably rare for him to have students who can get 100% on his tests and correct his mistakes all the time and also in high school. So maybe he can write a useful rec. letter for me.
I know colleges I'm applying to all say that we can submit more recommendation letters than needed, but most of the time, they are not suggested. They implies on the website that the extras may even hurt me if they are not useful.</p>
<p>I'm really troubled trying to decide which of the three teachers should I get the recs from. Please help! Thanks!</p>
<p>Unless this college prof can shed light on some aspect of your personality or accomplishments that is not apparent from your transcript or your other teacher recommendations, I would probably not send it in. Most kids who send in a third rec are getting them from employers, supervisors, coaches, religious leaders - people who see them in a different context than teachers do and can therefore can offer additional insight into who they are and how they can contribute to the places they are applying to. It doesn’t sound like that is the case for your professor.</p>
<p>It also all depends on what you hope to do in college: do you want to go into math, science and/or history? If you wouldn’t mind picking two of the three, you should also think about which subjects you are most interested in pursuing, and demonstrate your interest in those areas by showing colleges that you can excel in those subjects.</p>
<p>thanks for the reply. But I’m going to major in engineering and pre-med in college. A weird combination… Nothing to do with any of the subjects. But the thing is the college course I’m taking would be over till late december, so I won’t have transcript ready for it. Would the professor’s recommendation be useful to show my attitude in class and grade and stuff like that? I read that a lot of schools only want to know how you are in class from teacher recs.</p>
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<p>The chemistry and math are perfect for engineering and pre-med. They are perfectly suitable.</p>
<p>Really? well… yeah, I guess so… But do thy not want the well-rounded student? They prefer the ones with talent in some but not others?</p>