<p>RTR: agree with all the above posters…and in addition, I would recommend that you try to find someone a year ahead who got this teacher to write a rec…just to see the kind of writer of recs he/she is…</p>
<p>When we were going through this, our GC steered us away from a certain teacher b/c she had seen VERY inconsistent rec letters (some negative) in the past few years…not a bad idea to ask the GC who sees these letters (they do not have to sign off on confidentiality like the student does!)…she may have a take on this particular teacher…</p>