LOR from professor who now teaches high school?

[amarla09]

I got an A in Chemistry and would like to get a LOR from the professor who taught that course. However, that professor no longer teaches at that undergrad institute and instead teaches high school. Do you think this would matter?

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[music2doc]

Is s/he a PhD-level faculty member? If not, I probably wouldn't use the LOR. (Academic status matters.)

As for this person's current appointment, it would look a bit strange to receive an LOR on HS letterhead. My gestalt would be to find someone else. Surely, you have other faculty with whom you have a comparable relationship. (If not, you need to start working on that. I know I had about 7-8 faculty from whom to request letters of which I got 5 and then traded them around in different combinations to maximize my interview yield.)

 

[Served]

Whoa, is this my student?

I alway ate brownies and etc in class!

Pretty sure you're addicted to Cannabis brownies.