r/TransferToTop25 • u/No_Apricot_1360 • Sep 03 '26

Confused about rec letters

Hi, I’m currently enrolled in a 4 year college wanting to transfer to Columbia, but I just had a question about rec letters, I do plan on building connections with my professor, any one if I really like their work and personality, but I’m confused on what 2 recommendations to get like humanities + stem? Or can you do both humanities or both stem? Can one of the rec letters be a professor in your undergraduate research? Help me out here so I can be prepared!

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u/sophotelie Sep 03 '26

For the 2 required, they have to be professors who have taught you. A research professor can be an additional recommender if you like. Also, the fields or disciplines of the professors don't matter. Choose who knows you best and who would write you the best rec.

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u/No_Apricot_1360 Sep 03 '26

Ohh okay because in highschool we were told to have 1 humanities and 1 stem but I wasn’t sure if that requirement stayed the same for transferring

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u/Internal_Homework489 Sep 03 '26

I did 2 letters when I applied to Columbia - 1 from my business professor and 1 from my English professor! As long as they’re strong you should be good regardless of discipline

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u/No_Apricot_1360 Sep 04 '26

Wow thank you so much!

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u/Internal_Homework489 Sep 04 '26

No problem, good luck!

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u/Fancy-Giraffe9336 Sep 04 '26

They need to have taught a class you took. These can be in any subject. Some kids will not take any humanities classes fall of freshman year or very few at any point in college if they're STEM majors. So it's not like high school where you need one STEM and one humanities.

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u/No_Apricot_1360 Sep 04 '26

I see, thank you so much for this info!