My daughter submitted her application for USNA and had asked her current AP Stats teacher as her Math recommendation. The admission counselor wrote back and asked for a different teacher to submit the recommendation . Our quandary is that she finished AP Calculus BC in Sophomore year . She saved Stats for Senior year and took 2 AP Sciences (one of which was Physics C) last year. Has anyone encountered this and will an exception be made to submit a recommendation letter from her Calculus teacher even if it from Sophomore year? Thank you!
No Math recommendation from Junior/Senior year except AP Stats
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Ask her Sophomore AP Calc Teacher to submit the math recommendation review.
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USNA is very specific about who should do the assessment. Do as they say. The application process is all about following instructions and paying attention to detail. Ask them specifically who should submit it. They’ll be very clear.
Don’t worry about the fact that your DD took AP Calculus as a 10th grader. My own DD — now a youngster — also took AP Calculus as a 10th grader. Took Multivariable Calculus as an 11th grader. That’s the teacher whom USNA wanted to do the assessment. DD did as she was told.
Don’t worry about the fact that your DD took AP Calculus as a 10th grader. My own DD — now a youngster — also took AP Calculus as a 10th grader. Took Multivariable Calculus as an 11th grader. That’s the teacher whom USNA wanted to do the assessment. DD did as she was told.
MidCakePa- thanks- She emailed her admissions counselor back to ask permission to submit that 10th recommendation letter since she did not have math last year. (She had not other math options last year at her school so she saved Stats for this year) She understands the importance of following the instructions but the Jr-Sr year issue is where she could not comply.
Dr. Strange Love - thank you for your input. Her Calculus teacher has a letter ready ( we used it for other schools) - we are just waiting for the green light from USNA. I am a stringent rule follower and this one we debated on back and forth and thought Statistics was still a math class. Oh well.
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You can't use the letter the teacher had for other schools. USNA sends an email evaluation form directly to the teacher, who must complete it. Maybe some of the verbiage from the letter will be useful, but the teacher should answer the questions asked.
Also, USNA does not consider h.s. statistics to be be a "math" class. We can all debate that point but USNA's view is the only one that counts.
Also, USNA does not consider h.s. statistics to be be a "math" class. We can all debate that point but USNA's view is the only one that counts.