ESCP Business School MBA Recommendation Questions
The ESCP Business School MBA application requires two professional recommendations, preferably from a direct supervisor or someone who can speak to your professional qualifications and leadership potential. The ESCP MBA recommendation questions for the current admissions season are below.
2025-2026 ESCP Business School MBA Recommendation Questions
Section 1: Referee details
How long have you known the candidate and in what connection?
Section 2: Candidate rating
Please rate the candidate’s abilities with regard to the criteria listed below.
- Leadership potential
- Maturity
- Analytical skills
- Practical orientation
- Intellectual ability
- Creative innovative approach
- Aptitude for teamwork
- Oral communication skills
- Written communication skills
- Perseverance
- Organisational ability
- Ability to operate in an international environment
Referees are to use the following scale: excellent, good, average, poor, very poor
Do you have any additional comments concerning this applicant that you believe to be relevant?
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Currently working at Big4 Tax Advisory for Foreign Portfolio and Institutional Investors. Have a low GPA but positive trajectory from 2.00 in Semester 1 to 3.73 in Semester 6 and a Finance Major GPA of 3.64. CFA L3 candidate, hopefully cleared by the time I join.
Profile handicaps also include a 3 year gap post graduation and had to repeat Year 1 in college due to failing a subject.
4 YoE at matriculation. T1 Indian engineering college (Mech Eng.). Long term entrepreneurial goal building sports infrastructure and improving access to high quality training facilities and credible pathways to professional leagues. Played football (soccer) extensively through school and college as captain in school. Football community head in Hyderabad with around 60-70 members.
-5 year Division I student athlete
-3x captain
-3.97 masters gpa (business analytics)
-undergrad major is sport management
-4 years at Fortune 500 med tech company (3 different positions)
-started a fund 5 years ago to help families affected by cancer in memory of my mom (plan annual events, present to 200+ people per event, allocate funds to event beneficiaries)
-targeting round 2
-Taking the GRE in Oct
Any advice on a range for a target GRE score and based on my profile do you think the 3.3 will hold me back from those top M7/T15 schools that I plan to apply to?
(I assume to help offset the 3.3, my GRE score will need to be pretty high)
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Application submitted 03 Sep
Application submitted 02 Sep
Submission 6 Aug, Interview invite 17 Aug, Interview 28 Aug, Acceptance Letter 31 Aug