question regarding recommendations

Graduate School Business School - MBA
1

<p>Hi, </p>

<p>I have a question regarding the recommendation letters. Some schools, if not all, gives some questions for the recommender to answer. For example Columbia's questions are:
1. What is your relationship to, and how long have you known the applicant? Is this person still employed by your organization? If not, when did he/she depart?
2. Please provide a short list of adjectives describing the applicant’s strengths. </p>

<p>.... There a total of 9 questions.</p>

<p>Should the recommender answer the questions all together in an essay format or should he answer questions one by one. In both cases, what should be the optimum word count?</p>

<p>Thanks</p>

2

<p>Generally for recommendations, if the school has a form for your reference to fill out, then your reference can answer the questions one by one within the provided space. If there isn’t a form, then you reference need to write it in a letter (1 page, single space would work).</p>