Selecting your references is a critical step in your application process. By the time you reach this MBA Prep Step™, you should have already established excellent relationships with your superiors and mentors and identified the ones who are most supportive of your plans to apply to business school.


In the module, we provide you with the Do’s and Don’ts of reference selection. You will learn how to choose the references who are most likely to write a letter professing that you are in the top 10% of your peer group and how to guide them to write letters that provide the substantive examples of your strengths that admissions officers want to see.

After you have selected your references, great process management leads to great results. We will show you how to guide and support your recommenders. You will learn what admissions officers are looking for in a great recommendation letter so that you can educate your references and ensure that the letters they write will increase your chances of earning an acceptance letter.