如何選擇推薦人？

職位越大越好嘛?我爸媽認識總統還有行政院長，我  可以請他寫推薦函嘛？

Wharton MBA告訴你怎樣是好的推薦人～

Recommendations

Beyond your personal essays, the Admissions Committee would like to learn about you from two independent people who know you well. We prefer recommendations from people who can speak directly about your aptitude for, or accomplishments in, leadership and management. Thus, work-related recommendations are more valuable than academic ones.

Select the two people who really know you and your work, who you believe can best address the questions asked, not the two most important people you know. If a Wharton graduate happens to be one of those two people, he or she may be able to use his or her understanding of Wharton to describe how you will fit into the Wharton culture. Please don't seek out alumni who aren't truly qualified to write about you.

Recommendations should address the range of questions asked on our Recommendation Form and provide details, depth, and insight. Please make sure your recommenders understand that an effective recommendation is more than checking the right boxes and writing a couple of sentences. If the recommender believes that you are a good team player, he or she should present an example or two that illustrates that point. Useful recommendation letters are usually two to three pages long. You may want to brief your recommenders beforehand so they understand the competitive nature of the admissions process in which you are engaging.

Applicants working in family businesses, entrepreneurial environments, or other non-traditional environments will need to be more creative in terms of choosing recommenders (and perhaps use the optional essay to allow us to understand how you made your choices). You may consider clients, mentors, or those that you have worked with in the community.

Source: http://www.wharton.upenn.edu/mba/admissions/preparing-successful-application.cfm

總而言之，找推薦人的要點：
1.跟你熟，瞭解你的長官或老師（有時候可以是同事或客戶），可以寫出很具體的事蹟誇獎你，而不只是很多形容詞
2.如果剛好是要申請的學校的校友
3.成績好的課的老師
4.最後才是官大

Harvard Business School MBA上課實況

http://www.hbs.edu/mba/academics/

Harvard Business School MBA的Video，感動很多，MBA確實是個 exciting, competitve的課堂教室，在這邊上課，大大不同於以往台灣學生坐在下面傻傻聽課回家寫功課的上課模式，上課中學生才是主角，坐在你身邊的人，各各皆是世界各角落最優秀的企業家，老闆或是top sales，透過不同的文化衝擊和經驗分享，激烈的辯論和腦力激盪，真正的學習和成長，每一個學生都是最重要的角色，你不但從別人身上獲得當頭棒喝式的啟發，你也在跟別人討論的過程中省思自己，突破往日的盲點，讓自己更加成長！

在這麼競爭激烈的環境下，不需要老師和考試逼迫你研究功課，你自己就被激發出興奮積極的學習動力，這樣刺激的環境不再是壓力，反而元氣百倍，迫不及代的到教室和同學討論自己的想法，期待被認同，更期待被挑戰。

你，有勇氣在這麼多人面前自信的發表意見，和他們切磋嘛？

2012美國最佳商學院排名（MBA）

School	Location	Tuition	Average GMAT
#1 Stanford University	Stanford, CA	Full-time: $53,118 per year	728
#2 Harvard University	Boston, MA	Full-time: $48,600 per year	724
#3 Massachusetts Institute of Technology (Sloan)	Cambridge, MA	Full-time: $50,353 per year	718
#4 University of Pennsylvania (Wharton)	Philadelphia, PA	Full-time: $48,550 per year	718
#5 Northwestern University (Kellogg)	Evanston, IL	Full-time: $51,495 per year	714
#5 University of Chicago (Booth)	Chicago, IL	Full-time: $50,900 per year	715
#7 Dartmouth College (Tuck)	Hanover, NH	Full-time: $50,700 per year	716
#7 University of California--Berkeley (Haas) Berkeley, CA		Out-of-state, full-time: $49,647 per year	718
#9 Columbia University	New York, NY	Full-time: $53,208 per year	712
#10 New York University (Stern)	New York, NY	Full-time: $44,400 per year	715
#10 Yale University	New Haven, CT	Full-time: $49,900 per year	722
#12 Duke University (Fuqua)	Durham, NC	Full-time: $47,960 per year	697
#13 University of Virginia (Darden)	Charlottesville, VA	Out-of-state, full-time: $46,500 per year	699
#14 University of California, Los Angeles	Los Angeles, CA	Out-of-state, full-time: $48927 per year	710
#14 University of Michigan--Ann Arbor (Ross)	Ann Arbor, MI	Out-of-state, full-time: $50,000 per year	704
#16 Cornell University (Johnson)	Ithaca, NY	Full-time: $49,272 per year	687
#17 University of Texas--Austin (McCombs)	Austin, TX	Out-of-state, full-time: $45,128 per year	684
#18 Carnegie Mellon University (Tepper)	Pittsburgh, PA	Full-time: $52,500 per year	694
#19 University of North Carolina--Chapel Hill (Kenan-Flagler) Chapel Hill, NC		Out-of-state, full-time: $43,599 per year	686
#20 Washington University in St. Louis (Olin)	St. Louis, MO	Full-time: $44,300 per year	695
#21 University of Minnesota--Twin Cities (Carlson) Minneapolis, MN		Out-of-state, full-time: $41,144 per year	694
#21 University of Southern California (Marshall)	Los Angeles, CA	Full-time: $44,917 per year	690
# 23 Emory University (Goizueta)	Atlanta, GA	Full-time: $42,400 per year	680
#23 Indiana University--Bloomington (Kelley) Bloomington, IN		Out-of-state, full-time: $43,460 per year	664
#25 Georgetown University (McDonough) Washington, DC		Full-time: $45,984 per year	684
#25 Ohio State University (Fisher)	Columbus, OH	Out-of-state, full-time: $39,930 per year	676
#27 Arizona State University (Carey)	Tempe, AZ	Out-of-state, full-time: $34,058 per year	672
#28 Georgia Institute of Technology	Atlanta, GA	Out-of-state, full-time: $33,712 per year	678
#28 University of California--Davis	Davis, CA	Out-of-state, full-time: $43,698 per year	692
#28 University of Wisconsin--Madison	Madison, WI	Out-of-state, full-time: $25,678 per year	675
#28 Vanderbilt University (Owen)	Nashville, TN	Full-time: $42,834 per year	673
#32 Brigham Young University (Marriott)	Provo, UT	Full-time: $10,280 per year	675
#32 Texas A&M University--College Station (Mays) College Station, TX		Out-of-state, full-time: $19,316 per year	646
#34 Boston College (Carroll)	Chestnut Hill, MA	Full-time: $35,560 per year	662
#34 Boston University	Boston, MA	Full-time: $39,314 per year	681
#34 Rice University (Jones)	Houston, TX	Full-time: $42,000 per year	672
#37 University of Illinois--Urbana-Champaign Champaign, IL		Out-of-state, full-time: $27,826 per year	641
#37 University of Notre Dame (Mendoza)	Notre Dame, IN	Full-time: $40,340 per year	685
#37 University of Washington (Foster)	Seattle, WA	Out-of-state, full-time: $37,419 per year	681
#40 Pennsylvania State University--University Park (Smeal)	University Park, PA	Out-of-state, full-time: $32,898 per year	650
#40 Tulane University (Freeman)	New Orleans, LA	Full-time: $40,350 per year	674
#40 University of California--Irvine (Merage)	Irvine, CA	Out-of-state, full-time: $44,300 per year	673
#40 University of Iowa (Tippie)	Iowa City, IA	Out-of-state, full-time: $31,596 per year	657
# 40 University of Texas--Dallas	Richardson, TX	Out-of-state, full-time: $21,000 per year	668
#45 University of Maryland--College Park (Smith) College Park, MD		Out-of-state, full-time: $92,850 per program	670
#45 University of Rochester (Simon)	Rochester, NY	Full-time: $43,737 per year	677
#47 University of Florida (Hough)	Gainesville, FL	Out-of-state, full-time: $28,309 per year	694
#47 Wake Forest University (Babcock) Winston-Salem, NC		Full-time: $38,036 per year	653
#49 Michigan State University (Broad)	East Lansing, MI	Out-of-state, full-time: $37,290 per year	636
#49 Purdue University--West Lafayette (Krannert) West Lafayette, IN		Out-of-state, full-time: $38,632 per year	654
#51 University of Arkansas--Fayetteville (Walton) Fayetteville, AR		Out-of-state, full-time: $34,102 per year	629
#52 Babson College (Olin) Babson Park, MA		Full-time: $46,000 per year	624
#52 George Washington University	Washington, DC	Full-time: $1,250 per credit	635
#54 University of Missouri--Columbia (Trulaske) Columbia, MO		Out-of-state, full-time: $22,176 per year	646
#54 University of South Carolina (Moore)	Columbia, SC	Out-of-state, full-time: $69,805 per program	630
#56 Northeastern University	Boston, MA	Full-time: $1,250 per credit	630
#57 Rutgers, the State University of New Jersey--New Brunswick and Newark	Newark, NJ	Out-of-state, full-time: $36,068 per year	638