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by jaw5xs » Sun Jul 19, 2015 7:51 pm
Hello,

I started looking at the recommendation letters for schools that I am applying to. HBS for instance says that recommendations should be uploaded through a corporate email address, instead of Gmail, yahoo etc.

If my recommender is a boss who has left the company, will it be looked down upon that the reference is uploaded from a gmail account?

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by Jim@StratusPrep » Mon Jul 20, 2015 5:26 am
Contact the admissions department for this one. They may just have you write a quick blurb in your optional statement. My guess is that they deal with this type of situation all of the time - the work force is fairly transient these days.
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by OptimusPrep » Mon Jul 20, 2015 7:53 pm
As Jim correctly pointed out, contacting the admissions office would be the best thing to do.
They might as you to clarify this in the optional essay.
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by Michael@VeritasPrep » Sat Oct 24, 2015 4:09 pm
No, I don't think it will be looked down upon. However, many schools say that if the recommender uses a personal email address, they might do additional verification. Not sure what that always looks like, but I did have a client in this boat once and the school simply called the recommender to confirm a few things. No big deal, it happens, the admissions office knows how to deal with it.
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