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    Advice sought on who I should get recommendations from

    Background: Engineer from Indian Institute of Technology + MBA from a top 20-university in the US & currently working in consulting

    Planning on applying to 6 Strategy programs.

    Question for the forum: Who are the best choices for my recommenders?

    My current plan is to have 2 recommendations from 2 profs in Strategy and am open on who I will get the 3rd recommendation from.

    Some possible tweaks that could be made to the above list are:

    1) Yet another Strategy professor
    2) A prof in Statistics/ Quantitative methods
    3) Someone in Mechanical Engineering for whom I was an RA while I was at Purdue
    4) Another prof from a different department within the business school(marketing/ accounting) who can give me a very enthusiastic recommendation
    5) A former boss of mine with whom I worked on a project for >4 months

    What is the best subset & possible combination? And should I go above the normal 3 recommenders and try submitting 4?

    Would sincerely appreciate the group's thoughts on this topic,
    SB

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    I would go with no. 4; like you advised me on another post, it'd be best to get someone who would write enthusiastically about you ! And better yet, they are an academic!

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    The Boss is definitely better..

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    Would appreciate other responses too. Guys and gals, please give me your thoughts on the topic of what is the best set of folks to be chosen for the recommendations: 3 profs in Strategy/ 2 profs in Strategy & 1 from Quant methods/ 2 profs from Strategy & 1 from Mechanical Engineering? Or could some of those be from somebody who is in a different department but will recommend me enthusiastically or should I seek some from a former boss of mine?

    Thanks for your responses,
    SB

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    as I said the Boss is Ok.

    I would choose
    1) the most famous prof. of strategy being sure he can write an excellent letter
    2) the prof. of quantitative methods
    3) your former Boss.

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    I would go for the quant prof !!

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