Recommendation Letter from Boss who left company

[jaw5xs]

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?

Thanks

[Jim@StratusPrep]

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.

[OptimusPrep]

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.

[Michael@VeritasPrep]

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.