Georgia Terry MBA Recommendation Questions 2024-2025
The University of Georgia Terry College of Business full-time MBA program application for the fall 2025 intake is now open, so you and your referees can find the Georgia Terry MBA recommendation questions here.
Georgia Terry requires two recommendations. The Admissions Committee prefers that one recommendation be from a direct supervisor, but this is not a requirement. It is advised to choose individuals who can speak directly and specifically to your professional performance and future potential, someone who knows you from a leadership role. Georgia Terry accepts the Common Letter of Recommendation (LOR).
2024-2025 Georgia Terry MBA Recommendation Questions
Section 1: Recommender Information
Context of Relationship:
Current Employer
Previous Employer
University/Academic
Extra Curricular/Community
Other
Relationship to applicant:
Direct Supervisor
Other Supervisor
Advisor/Mentor
Colleague/Peer
Direct Report
Indirect Report
Client/Customer
Business Partner/Investor
Vendor
Professor/Instructor
Other
How long have you known the applicant?
During which period of time have you had the most frequent contact with the applicant?
If you are affiliated with the Terry College of Business or University of Georgia, please select the option that most closely matches:
Faculty
UCLA Anderson Graduate
UCLA Graduate
Staff
Not affiliated
Other
Section 2: Competency Ratings
In this section, you will find 16 competencies and character traits that contribute to successful leadership. The competencies and character traits are grouped into five categories:
Achievement
Influence
People
Personal Qualities
Cognitive Abilities
For each competency, please select the one button that corresponds to the behavior that you have seen the applicant most consistently exhibit. We acknowledge that all applicants have both areas of strength and areas of development. Your candid and honest appraisal will assist in evaluation of the applicant. Please assume that each level builds upon behaviors of the previous level.
Achievement
1. Initiative: Acts ahead of need/anticipates problems
2. Results Orientation: Focuses on and drives toward delivering on goals, objectives, and performance improvement
Influence
3. Communication, Professional Impression & Poise: Delivers messages and ideas in a way that engages an audience and achieves buy-in; uses listening and other attending behaviors to reach shared understanding; remains calm and measured even in time of crisis or conflict
4. Influence and Collaboration: Engages and works with people over whom one has no direct control
People
5. Respect for Others: Acknowledges the value of others’ views and actions
6. Team Leadership: Manages and empowers a team of formal or informal direct reports, including virtual teams
7. Developing Others: Helps people develop their performance and ability over time
Personal Qualities
8. Trustworthiness/ Integrity: Acts consistently in line with or follows explicit values, beliefs, or intentions
9. Adaptability/ Resilience: Adapts to changing demands and circumstances without difficulty. Maintains calm optimism in the face of challenge, problems, or apparent failure
10. Self Awareness: Aware of and seeks out additional input on own strengths and weaknesses
Cognitive
11. Problem Solving: Frames problems, analyzes situations, identifies key issues, conducts analysis on the issues, and produces acceptable solution
12. Strategic Orientation: Thinks beyond one’s span of control and into the future to reshape the approach or scope of work
(Optional) Is there anything about your competency ratings on which you’d like to comment?
Based on your professional experience, how do you rate this candidate compared to her/his peer group?
Below Average
Average
Very Good (well above average)
Excellent (top 10%)
Outstanding (top 5%)
The best encountered in my career
Overall, I…this applicant to The Fuqua School of Business.
Do Not Recommend this applicant
Recommend this applicant with Reservations
Recommend this applicant
Enthusiastically recommend this applicant
Section 3: Written Answers
Please answer the following questions and provide specific examples where possible.
Please provide a brief description of your interaction with the applicant and, if applicable, the applicant’s role in your organization. (Recommended word count: 50 words)
How does the performance of the applicant compare to that of other well-qualified individuals in similar roles? (E.g. what are the applicant’s principal strengths?) (Recommended word count: 500 words)
Describe the most important piece of constructive feedback you have given the applicant. Please detail the circumstances and the applicant’s response. (Recommended word count: 500 words)
Applying:
Berkeley / Haas,
Harvard Business School,
MIT Sloan,
Stanford GSB
Intake Year: 2025
Pre-MBA Career: Software engineer at Google -> Airbnb -> Twitch. Currently tech lead on a safety team but have worked across different products like maps, shopping, ads and safety.
Post-MBA Target Industry:
Entrepreneurship
GRE: 326
GPA: 3.2
Years of Work Experience: 7
Location: San Francisco
Notes:
African American male - 28.
My goal for an MBA is to build tools for music creators. I joined a band during Covid and found a passion for digital music creation and machine learning, but I lack the business skills.
Top Choices:
HBS: Offers cross-registration with Berklee for classes like audio engineering and entertainment law, plus a chance to collaborate with potential users and experts in the music field.
MIT: Media Lab aligns with some of the audio breakthroughs I’m interested in
My challenge is a lower GPA. How can I offset that weakness?
Applying:
Columbia,
Harvard Business School,
Stanford GSB,
UPenn / Wharton
Intake Year: 2025
Pre-MBA Career: I worked in real estate development and later in business operations and strategy for several construction tech companies
Post-MBA Target Industry:
Technology, Entrepreneurship Companies:
Other
GRE: 331
GPA: 3.98
Years of Work Experience: 5
Location: New York City
Post MBA Location: Seattle, SF, or LA (but open to anywhere)
Notes:
I attended a top 25 state school and have extensive extracurricular experience, including serving a 2-year church mission, managing a college prep program for underprivileged students, and running a nonprofit in Ukraine.
My post-MBA goal is to build a company focused on housing affordability.
Applying:
Boston College / Carroll,
Cornell / Johnson,
Dartmouth / Tuck,
Duke / Fuqua,
Michigan / Ross,
Northwestern / Kellogg,
Notre Dame / Mendoza,
UT Austin / McCombs,
Vanderbilt / Owen,
Yale SOM
Intake Year: 2025
Pre-MBA Career: Active duty military, nonprofit
Post-MBA Target Industry:
Consulting Companies:
Bain
, Booz Allen Hamilton
, BCG
, Deloitte
, KPMG
, McKinsey
, PWC
GPA: 3.3
Years of Work Experience: 7
Post MBA Location: Boston
Notes:
Enlisted military, stem degree from top LAC, currently at a nonprofit. My post mba goal is to do management consulting for a couple years then get back into the nonprofit space. Taking the GRE in December