Hello,

I am reviewing all the people that I would want to approach for a recommendation, and it just so happens that the top three people that I feel would be the best candidates are chineese(as am I). Should I think about approaching non-Asian recommenders for the race factor alone, or do you think that it will not make a difference, and I should just go for the people that are the best candidates.

I am a U.S. citizen and I grew up and work in San Francisco in the hi-tech industry.

Pick the best recommenders.

Assuming that all are fluent in English, pick the best recommender irrelevant of race. If English language skills are an issue pick the one who is best able to express how wonderful you are.

Something like this never crossed my mind. I think the adcoms couldn't care less about the ethnicity of recommenders. What's in your recommendation is way more important. Pick recommenders who obviously like you, know you best, and can provide good examples to back up all the stellar qualities you have.

If they don't ask for the recommenders' ethnicities, then you don't need to worry about it.

Edit: I would be very disturbed if they even asked!

They don't ask for ethnicity of the recommenders, but you can pretty much guess from the last name... I still think that it is a legitimate question... for example, all of my recommenders were women... but I just don't work for male managers that much... just happened... so I was a bit concerned whether this may be viewed strange...

If your recommenders are able to provide good examples and good things to say about you, it'll be that much more effective if all of them came from different and diverse backgrounds... but it's not necessary... still, it'll probably be ideal...

Hello everyone,

I am thinking about filling an application for the ESADE MBA (not sure yet if it will be the 1 year or 18 months program though)?

Anyone knows a bit more about this program? Any insight?

Thanks in advance!

I would recommend you to give a description of your profile, country, GMAT, career goals,... to get a feedback from people.

I did an exchange semester there several years ago. It's a very nice school, and it is consistently ranked as one of the top schools globally by some publications (WSJ). They offer enough classes in English if you can't take classes in Spanish, but you'll be much better off if you can. Plenty of student activity and the campus is in a pretty and expensive part of Barcelona. Things may have changed, but don't expect the same level of resources/infrastructure as what the U.S. or U.K. schools can offer. But in terms of recognition, I'd say employers in Europe will know ESADE just as well as they know INSEAD. I would argue that is not quite the case in the U.S. - while INSEAD has some recognition, very few will have heard of ESADE. Hope this helps.

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Earlier I wrote about the frequency of each type of grammatical error in the Sentence Correction section of the GMAT. While it is useful to use the GMAT Official Guide terminology because it is consistent, it can also be confusing due to the Official Guide's use of uncommon phrases such as diction, rhetorical construction, and logical predication.

What follows is an attempt to translate each GMAT term for a sentence correction error into something a little bit easier to understand than 'logical predication'. For some examples below, I have used actual GMAT questions, which are reprinted here with GMAC's permission and marked with an asterisk.