MIT says:
"MIT requires two letters of recommendation from teachers. One recommendation should be from a math or science teacher, and one should be from a humanities, social science, or language teacher, although this is not a hard requirement.
You should ask a teacher who has taught you in an academic class in high school. Ideally, this will also be a teacher who knows you as more than just a student who does well on all the tests. We find that the best recommendations are written by teachers who know an applicant well as both a student and a person."
https://mitadmissions.org/apply/firstyear/letters-of-recommendation/
這又不是研究導師寫的額外推薦信，需要大學老師來做。州大和高中老師，別人更相信高中的老師。至少高中老師和你混在一起的時間要比大學老師長，而且高中老師能夠有相對的比較。
要搞清這些東西你要麽你花錢請申學指導指導你，要麽你或你的孩子自己得化時間去看要申請的每個學校網站上的指南，每個學校都會寫得很清楚的。到紫檀來問，很多和你一樣糊塗的張口就來給你提供議見，這樣即使有正確的建議，混在一起你也搞不清到底哪個是正確的， 特別是有些回複，看似春藥很有道理其實是毒藥。
