Access Scholarship References

Hi,

I’m applying for the Access Scholarship for June 2020. It requires two references. From other people’s experience, it seems CFAI prefers CFA charterholders to be the references.

I can find two charterholder friends to be my references, but I heard that it’s good to have direct managers from work to be references. My current managers have nothing to do with CFA.

Would I be better off skipping my managers and just use my friends?