What are recommenders asked?

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by money9111 » Thu May 13, 2010 7:32 am

I think this is somewhat of a black box to a lot of people. I know for myself I've been wondering lately, what recommenders are asked. I know the types of questions they are asked, but can someone shed some light on:

1. School
2. Exact questions recommenders were asked?
3. Word limits

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by brianm » Thu May 13, 2010 7:59 am

For most of the schools you can download a pdf of the recommendation form (from the school website) in case your recommenders can't submit electronically and have to mail it in. I wonder how much longer that will continue given everything else is electronic though.

From what I can tell, they ask a range of short answer questions and then also have the recommender evaluate the applicant on a range of criteria. I didn't apply to Harvard/Stanford/Wharton so I don't know what those are like.

Here are a few from some of the schools I applied to this past fall.

Berkeley Haas: https://mba.haas.berkeley.edu/LORFall2010.pdf
Kellogg (this one is from '09 though): https://gmatclub.com/forum/download/file.php?id=6315

If you do a google search and poke around online you should be able to find the documents.

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by money9111 » Thu May 13, 2010 8:01 am

Amazing thank you! I'm looking at the Haas form right now... this is more comprehensive than I thought it would be. This is great thanks

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