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The MBA Admissions Committee looks forward to receiving your application to the Columbia MBA Program and hopes you find both the process and its outcome valuable.
The online application facilitates the processing and review of your application by allowing you to submit your entire application, including transcripts and recommendations, via the Internet. Once you create an online account, you will receive e-mail communications and invitations.
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View details of the application process.
Recommendation Requests
All applications require two recommendations by third parties. If you have been working full-time for at least six months, you should submit at least one recommendation from your employer. The second recommendation should be from either a former direct supervisor or from another professional associate, senior to you, who can add personal insight into your candidacy.
If you are a college senior or have worked full-time for less than six months, at least one, but preferably both, of your recommendations should be from a person who can comment on your managerial abilities. You may ask a summer employer or another person who you feel can objectively assess your professional promise. The second recommendation may be from a college professor.
If either you or your recommender would like to view the online recommendation questions, they are listed below. (Please note the below questions are those in the September 2009 ED and RD applications. These are only slightly revised from the January 2009 application recommendation questions.)
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, and
please compare the applicant’s performance to that of his or her peers.
3. Please
comment on the applicant’s growth during his/her employment with you and on his
or her ability to work with others, including superiors, peers, and
subordinates.
4. In what ways could the applicant improve professionally? How does he/she accept constructive criticism?
5. Comment on your observations of the applicant’s ethical behavior.
6. What do you think motivates the candidate’s application to the MBA program at Columbia Business School?
7. If you could change one thing about the applicant, what would it be?
8. Are there any other matters which you feel we should know about the applicant?
Please be aware, the Admissions Committee does require that you submit all application materials online, including the recommendations.
Reapplication
If you have applied to Columbia Business School within the past 12 months, you may submit an abbreviated reapplication. The reapplication checklist will serve as a guide. The application fee is U.S.$250.
Checking Your Status
Because the processing of applications can take three to four weeks, please wait at least three weeks after submitting your application before contacting our office with questions or concerns about your application status. We encourage you, however, to check your online application status as often as you like.
