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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]OP here.

There have been a lot of other people posting. I am summarizing again my opinion and adding some additional context and caution.

I thought a recommendation process offered by a teacher in a core subject added unnecessary stress to the college app process.  Teacher has students apply for recommendations prior to the end of their junior school year and told them she makes decision midsummer after AP exam results come out. She tells them not to contact her before AP results to get any sort of feedback. A student with an A average and a 4 AP score (like my child) is likely to think they will be recommended. If the teacher generally only takes 5s, I think the teacher should explain that on her app. Alternatively if my child was never going to be recommended, why not tell my child immediately rather than having them wait until the middle of the summer?  That’s my fundamental issue.

Most teachers close their app deadline at the end of the students junior school year.  Fortunately, my child asked three teachers (just in case) the one didn’t pan out.

I appreciate the teachers who have chimed in to hear how much work these recommendation letters are. Going to a strong school, it’s very possible my child was 1 out of 100 students who scored 4 or higher on the exam with that teacher and perhaps 70 or more of them asked for recommendations so maybe she’s overwhelmed.

For parents who have kids that go to schools where everyone is a high performer please be cognizant that your kid may not get the wanted recommendation if your kid isn’t a superstar in a core area due to overwhelming workload of the number of recommendations these teachers get. Be incredibly thankful for the ones willing to write a recommendation letter.
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I agree with teachers only being wiling to write recommendations for kids who they think are genuinely good students worth recommending, but basing whether to write a recommendation on their AP score is insane.[/quote]

That makes no sense to me. There is a college for every kid. So you might not recommend a kid to Harvard but maybe you would recommend him to a non flagship state college.

What teacher would not recommend a kid to any college? I thought teacher were supposed be about growth. We are talking about teenagers.[/quote]

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