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uh-oh...do we really need 3 teacher recs? I just saw this on the teacher rec form...how many is everyone else getting?

By Calidan (Calidan) on Friday, October 01, 2004 - 01:25 am: Edit

Yeah, I'm confused about this too... do we need 2 teacher recs and one counselor rec, or what?

By Shortcakefairy (Shortcakefairy) on Friday, October 01, 2004 - 05:02 am: Edit

bump!

and is it bad to get 3 teacher recs even if only 2 are required?

By Dressagechick (Dressagechick) on Friday, October 01, 2004 - 01:56 pm: Edit

what?? I thought we only needed one teacher rec!!

By Babybird87 (Babybird87) on Friday, October 01, 2004 - 04:50 pm: Edit

it says on the form itself get one from a science/math teacher, one from a foreign language/linguistics teacher, and one from a teacher of your choice.

It wasn't really a problem-- I got my English Honors teacher, my AP Chem teacher, and my Spanish IB teacher.

By Tlaktan (Tlaktan) on Friday, October 01, 2004 - 05:15 pm: Edit

Uhh. That's for the different SCHOOLS. If you are applying to COL (and you are) you need whatever it says..

MSB: Math/Science (I think)
SFS: Teacher of Choice
COL: Foreign Language, or Language/History, maybe
and .. NHS: Science

I think I got that right. Makes sense.. associated with the different schools.

By Itziar (Itziar) on Friday, October 01, 2004 - 06:39 pm: Edit

Yep, Tlaktan's right. You look at the school you're applying to and get a rec from the listed teacher, and then you get one from your counselor. That's it!

By Neobez (Neobez) on Friday, October 01, 2004 - 07:01 pm: Edit

You guys scared me for a sec.

By Thejuiceisback (Thejuiceisback) on Friday, October 01, 2004 - 07:21 pm: Edit

ONE REC!

By Babybird87 (Babybird87) on Friday, October 01, 2004 - 08:32 pm: Edit

Oh, my, God. Are you kidding me?

I've given this form out to three teachers. What do I do now?

Tlaktan, are you saying that only one recommendation is required?

By Tlaktan (Tlaktan) on Saturday, October 02, 2004 - 01:56 am: Edit

Three recs can't HURT.. I'm getting three + 1 additional.. 1 for ROTC, 1 from Social Studies Chair and 1 from English Teacher..

Yes BB, that's exactly what I'm trying to say.

By Babybird87 (Babybird87) on Saturday, October 02, 2004 - 03:05 pm: Edit

but we can give in as many as we want, right?

I don't want to have to go back and tell them to not do it.

By Jangel86 (Jangel86) on Sunday, October 03, 2004 - 02:17 pm: Edit

You only need one. For the College, a foreign language teacher if you are applying for a language program, a science or math teacher for pre med, the nursing school, or a science major, for anything else a teacher of your choice. For buisness, math or social studies, and for SFS any teacher. The application says get one recommendation.

I need to send in 2 recs cuz I'm majoring in Spanish and am going to be pre-med. I've heard from a lot of schools that they don't want to see more than 3 recs.