The primary method of submission is MIT’s teacher recommendation form, which is available for download from your MyMIT application portal. Recommendations can be submitted in one of two ways. You can choose a teacher who has retired or moved to a different school, as long as that teacher meets the above criteria. You do not need to choose a senior year teacher - but you should choose someone with whom you have an ongoing relationship. You do not need to choose the teacher from whom you received the best grade. For example: the English teacher who is your newspaper advisor, the math teacher who is your math team coach, the biology teacher who is your field hockey coach, the history teacher that you talk about politics and health care policy with, the physics teacher who you challenge each day for the best time on the New York Times crossword puzzle, the chemistry teacher who is your mentor.Īlso - you do not need to choose the teacher that teaches the subject that you want to major in. We find that the best recommendations are written by teachers who know an applicant well as both a student and a person. Ideally, this will also be a teacher who knows you as more than just a student who does well on all the tests. no middle school, and no basket weaving class). Who should you ask? You should certainly ask a teacher who has taught you in an academic class in high school (i.e.
If you send us a translated recommendation, please include both the English translated copy and the original in the native language. Official translations from agencies are also good. There are many sources for translation, and one that you may find helpful is an English teacher at your high school. They can write in their native language the letter can then be translated. If you attend school outside the United States, and have teachers who are not English fluent, this is okay - you can still have them write you a recommendation. Teacher recommendations should only be written by the teacher and by no one else. If a teacher asks you to write the recommendation for them - do not do this (these requests rarely happen in the United States, but do happen with some frequency abroad). Teachers often find these conversations very helpful. This is also a good time to tell them about why you’re applying to each school, and how you see yourself as a match for each place. I recommend giving them all of the recommendation forms for every one of the schools you’re applying to at once. This is a much better approach than just leaving the recommendation form on their chair and running away. I recommend that you find some face-to-face time alone with each teacher to ask them in person to write your letter, and to have a conversation about it. So whether your application deadline is only weeks away, or still months away, please have these conversations now or very soon, if you have not yet done so.
Please recognize that teachers are very busy - teachers in this country are seriously overworked and underpaid I hope you will respect their time. If you are applying this year - early action (November 1 deadline) or regular action (January 1 deadline) - I hope that you have already asked your teachers if they can write a letter on your behalf. At MIT, we require all applicants to send in two letters of recommendation - one from a math or science teacher (“Evaluation A”) and one from a humanities teacher (“Evaluation B”).
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