MSU Broad MBA Recommendation Questions
The Michigan State University Broad College of Business MBA Program application for the 2024-2025 admissions season is open. You can find the MSU Broad MBA recommendation questions here.
MSU Broad requires one reference, but two are recommended. References should be able to attest to your ability to work within and lead teams as well as to contribute significantly to a professional business environment and provide specific information on your professional and intellectual skills and abilities. Employment-related references are strongly encouraged, and preferably supervisors. Admissions may call your references/recommenders to speak to them during the application cycle.
2024-2025 MSU Broad MBA Recommendation Questions
Section 1: Recommender Information
What is your relationship to the applicant?
How long have you known the applicant?
Please indicate your overall recommendation of the candidate for admission to a graduate program:
- Do not Recommend
- Recommend with Reservation
- Recommend
- Strongly Recommend
Section 2: Skills Assessment
The following questions ask about both the applicant’s softer-skills, and harder-skills. If you yourself feel more comfortable evaluating the applicant quantitatively, please use the following reference: Outstanding = top 5% Strong = top 10% Great = top 25% Average = middle 50%. Poor = bottom 25%
Please rate the applicant’s:
- Self-confidence
- Intellectual ability
- Ability to work with others
- Motivation
- Leadership potential
- Written expression
- Oral expression
- Applicant’s integrity
Please comment on the appraisal provided above and make any additional statements about the applicant that will help the Admissions Committee make its decision.
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I am a 29 yo black brazilian woman. I am civil engineer by the oldest civil engineer school of Brazil with full scholarship. I have been working with data since 2015 and now I am coordinator of a data team I the biggest Latin American Bank. Currently I am studying for toefl and improving my English. My main purposes joining a top tier mba are to improve my leadership skills and to learn with different people from different backgrounds (I am working in the same business since 2017).
I am originally from the UK (now a permanent resident) and went to community college (3.6 gpa), then transferred to a top 25 undergrad and severe health issues due to a disability causing me to get a 3.1 gpa. I then stayed there and did a master’s in finance with a 3.8 gpa. I am very passionate about giving back, especially about the homelessness epidemic. Before college I spent a year in Switzerland volunteering at homeless shelters. During college I led a campus ministry with a focus on helping the unhoused. After my experience with my disability, I started a nonprofit that has consulted with several shelters and foodbanks to help those with similar health issues as myself. I also personally raised capital to purchase and preserve an affordable multifamily property. My career has been in real estate since I graduated, but I have job hopped. My first job was 5 months, then I moved to be closer to family. My next job was for 7 months, but I quit as they were taking actions to make housing unaffordable for first time buyers. My next job was in acquisitions but I was laid off with about half the company due to the rising interest rates that affected the industry. I have been at an impact real estate private equity firm for almost 2 years in an acquisitions, development, and asset management role with a promotion. All my roles have been for REITs or PE firms. My post-mba goal is banking to better learn capital markets and long term to start an affordable real estate investment firm, perhaps in London. I would love to be a wire tap candidate, fingers crossed.
Applying for deferred programs at the mentioned schools. African woman studying Comp Sci and Math. GMAT Focus 98 %tile. Substantial community involvement and some experience at big tech working as a SWE. Thinking of consulting or product management post MBA.