Recommendations
Please obtain only two recommendations on your behalf (three if you are applying to the BEP or LFM Program) from individuals who are able to speak with certainty about your professional achievements and potential.

Please choose recommenders who are able to provide specific answers to the following questions:

How long and in what capacity have you known the applicant?
How does the applicant stand out from others in a similar capacity?
Please give an example of the applicant's impact on a person, group, or organization.
Please give a representative example of how the applicant interacts with other people.
Which of the applicant's personal or professional characteristics would you change?
Please tell us anything else you think we should know about this applicant.
Please note that the LFM and the BEP programs require three evaluations, and one of the three should be from an academic source or someone who can speak definitively of your technical skills.

Recommenders may submit recommendations either online or through the mail. Recommendations should be up to two pages each.

ONLINE RECOMMENDATIONS
Please click on the “Recommendations” link in the left navigation bar and follow the instructions for online recommendation submission. Please ensure that your recommenders submit the recommendations by the appropriate deadline.

MAILED RECOMMENDATIONS
If your recommenders elect to submit a paper recommendation, please allow sufficient time for your recommenders to write your evaluation and ask them to mail it to you. Please advise your recommenders to use your formal full name as it is entered on the application, not your nickname, so that we can match it with your online application.

If both of your recommenders elect to mail in the recommendations, you must send the recommendations together in one envelope and address it as shown below. Please write on the outside of the envelope the application round (MBA Round I, MBA Round II, BEP or LFM Program) for which you are applying.

MIT Sloan School of Management
MBA Application Materials (indicate Round I, II, BEP or LFM)
50 Memorial Drive, Suite E52-126
Cambridge, MA 02142-1347

As part of the application process, we require two recommendations to be submitted on-line. We use these recommendations as a gauge of your professional achievements and managerial potential. We suggest that one of your recommendations comes from a direct supervisor. Your recommender should provide specific observations and examples of your leadership, teamwork, analytical skills, and general likeability.