Here is a Q&A guide to answer your burning questions on applying to a safety school.

Q: What is a "safety school"?

A: A safety school is one where you are highly competitive and that is strong in your area of interest, but it not as highly regarded overall. Your goals are clearly supported by this school.

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It’s MBA interview season, which doesn’t mean you get a free pass to stress out. In fact, if you keep the four “must-knows” in mind during your interview prep and during the big event itself, you’ll find that acing the MBA admissions interview doesn’t need to drive you crazy.

In fact once you sort out the following five key elements, you’ll feel more relaxed and more confident—two “must-haves” for interview success!

So, what are these secret ingredients?

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You’ve got just about two months until the MBA application deadlines of early January roll around. You want to present an organized, complete, and impressive application, all under the buzzer. There’s only one way you’ll get it all done—and done well!—and that is, by getting organized.

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Effective letters of recommendation will highlight and amplify your leadership[1], teamwork, organizational and communication skills, and discuss the positive impact you've had on an organization. For this reason, managers, supervisors and mentors are ideally suited to write your LORs. Having supervised you over a period of time and seen you in a variety of situations, they will be able to speak knowledgeably about most, if not all, of the questions that schools will ask. LOR forms ask recommenders to answer a range of questions, such as how you stand out from others in a similar capacity and in what ways you have had an impact on your organization. They'll also ask recommenders to assess your leadership experiences and potential, and to discuss or quantify on a scale such attributes as intelligence, creativity, focus, integrity and communication skills. They may even be asked to rate your sense of humor. But recommenders will also be asked to assess your weaknesses, as well as what you have done to address them. Therefore, you need someone who can speak knowledgeably not only about your proven abilities and talents, but even about areas where you can improve and do so without drawing attention to or magnifying any weaknesses that you do have. Consequently your mother is probably not a good choice, even if she's your boss!

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