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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]We told ours if you want to go for a top 20 school, you're going to need two good teacher recommendations.

You don't have to do this if you don't want to, but if you do want a chance at these kinds of schools, you're going to need this. Choose the teachers by junior year. Obviously do well in those classes. Be bright. Be kind. Be curious. Make sure you have a rapport with the teachers.

But it's up to you.

Both in top 20 schools now. And I do think the teacher recs made a difference.[/quote]

One of our DCs ended up choosing a teacher who had barely tolerated them when they were a flailing freshmen with undiagnosed inattentive ADHD and anxiety. They were assigned the teacher again for a competitive English essay class as a junior in COVID. We wrung our hands, as did DC, but stayed out of it. DC nailed the class and the teacher told them, when they asked some months later to write the rec letter, "In all my years of teaching, I've never had a student make such dramatic improvement. It would be an honor." [/quote]

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