DEADLINES ESSAYS & ANALYSIS Short Answer Questions What are you most passionate about? Why? (250-word maximum) Analysis: I can think of a few ways to approach this question, but I recommend starting with the truth: what are you truly passionate about? What gets you out of bed early or makes the hours fly by? What [...]

DEADLINES ESSAYS & ANALYSIS 1. If we were to admit one more student to the class of 2012, make a compelling argument as to why that student should be you? (300 words max) Analysis: ISB has one of the shorter application sets this year, but this question still makes it a significant challenge, especially if [...]

A lot of my clients are starting to work on LOR now and wondering, as they should, how to make it easy on their recommenders and themselves. So, from the current list of schools on my LOR Questions Databank, I’ve prepared the following as a sort of master list; if your recommenders complete these questions [...]

DEADLINES ESSAYS Suggested length – 2 double-spaced pages per essay. Tepper CMU Essay A. What are your short-term and long-term goals? How will a Tepper MBA help you to achieve these goals. (Please include any information regarding what steps you have taken to learn more about Tepper.) Analysis: Please see: The MBA Goals Essay Tepper [...]

I’ve come up with 3 categories of essay questions for some of this year’s top schools that help me advise my clients on the best application order. First, the categories followed by the strategies. 1) “Basic” Schools – like Columbia, UCLA Anderson and Duke Fuqua that essentially ask for Goals, Personal and Why School X? [...]

DEADLINES ESSAYS & ANALYSIS Cover Letter Prepare a cover letter (up to 500 words) seeking a place in the MIT Sloan MBA Program. Describe your accomplishments and include an example of how you had an impact on a group or organization. Your letter should conform to standard business correspondence and be addressed to Mr. Rod [...]

DEADLINES ESSAYS Please respond fully but concisely to the following essay questions. Compose each of your answers offline in separate document files and upload them individually in the appropriate spaces below. Although there is no restriction on the length of your response, most applicants use, on average, 500 words for each essay. There are no [...]

DEADLINES ESSAYS & ANALYSIS What are the key issues facing organisations in your sector over the next three years? What course of action would you recommend to such organisations? (300 words) What did you learn from your most spectacular failure? (200 words) What are your short and long term career objectives? What skills/characteristics do you [...]

DEADLINES ESSAYS Essay 1 If we were to admit one more student to the class of 2012, make a compelling argument as to why that student should be you? (300 words maximum) Essay 2 What are your short term and long term goals? How will the ISB help you achieve the same? (300 words maximum) [...]

DEADLINES ESSAYS Please note the following details when completing the Essays section of the 2010-11 online application. The following essay questions give you the opportunity to more fully present yourself to the Admissions Committee and to provide insight into your experiences, goals and thought processes. Your essays should be written entirely by you. An offer [...]