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		<title>Mission Admission: Why a Personalized MBA Recommendation Matters, but Details Sometimes Do Not</title>
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					<description><![CDATA[<p>Mission Admission is a series of MBA admission tips from our exclusive admissions consulting partner, mbaMission. If your supervisor is writing your MBA recommendation and you are having trouble ensuring that he/she is putting the proper thought and effort into your letter, you are not alone. Because of this asymmetry of power, a junior employee can [&#8230;]</p>
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<p><b><i>Mission Admission is a series of MBA admission tips from our exclusive admissions consulting partner, </i></b><a href="https://www.mbamission.com/" target="_blank" rel="noopener"><b><i>mbaMission</i></b></a><b><i>.</i></b></p>
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<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">If your supervisor is writing your MBA recommendation and you are having trouble ensuring that he/she is putting the proper thought and effort into your letter, you are not alone. Because of this asymmetry of power, a junior employee can only do so much to compel his/her supervisor to commit the necessary time and write thoughtfully. So, before you designate your supervisor as a recommender, you must first perceive how committed this person really is to helping you with your business school candidacy. In particular, your recommender needs to understand that using a single template to create identical letters for multiple business schools is not okay. Each letter must be personalized, and each MBA program’s questions must be answered using specific examples.</span><span id="more-14842"></span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">If your recommender intends to simply write a single letter and force it to “fit” the school’s questions or to attach a standard letter to the end of the school’s recommendation form (for example, including it in the question “Is there anything else that you think the committee should know about the candidate?”), then he/she could be doing you a disservice. By neglecting to put the proper time and effort into your letter, your recommender is sending a very clear message to the admissions committee: “I don’t really care about this candidate.”</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">If you cannot convince your recommender to write a personalized MBA recommendation or to respond to your target school’s individual questions using specific examples, look elsewhere. A well-written, personalized MBA recommendation from an interested party is always far better than a poorly-written letter from your supervisor.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">In addition, although details are important in recommendation letters, remember that sometimes small points are really just that—small points. We often get asked, “Should this be a comma or a semicolon?” and want to respond, “Please trust us that the admissions committee will not say, ‘Oh, I would have accepted this applicant if she had used a comma here, but she chose a semicolon, so DING!’” That said, we are certainly not telling you to ignore the small things. Details matter—the overall impression your application makes will depend in part on your attention to typos, font consistency, and grammar, for example—but we encourage you to make smart and reasonable decisions and move on. You can be confident that your judgment on such topics will likely be sufficient. ?</span></p>
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<p><img decoding="async" class="size-full wp-image-13225 alignleft" src="https://d27gmszdzgfpo3.cloudfront.net/gmat/wp-content/uploads/sites/18/2017/02/logo-150x150.png" alt="mbaMission logo" width="150" height="150" /><a href="https://www.mbamission.com/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer"><b><i>mbaMission</i></b></a><b><i> is the leader in MBA admissions consulting with a full-time and comprehensively trained staff of consultants</i></b><i>, all with profound communications and MBA experience. mbaMission has helped thousands of candidates fulfill their dream of attending prominent MBA programs around the world. Take your first step toward a more successful MBA application experience with a free 30-minute consultation with one of mbaMission’s senior consultants. Sign up today at </i><a href="https://www.mbamission.com/consult/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer"><i>www.mbamission.com/manhattangmat</i></a><i>.</i></p>
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