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By answering the questions
below, you would get a fair idea if your essays provide the
information that business school admissions committees seek before
taking that admissions decision in your favor.
Career related
- Are your career goals
clearly projected?
- Are you convinced these are
your real career goals?
- Have you shown how your
career goals originated?
- Does the passion with which
you wish to pursue them come across in your essays?
- Have you projected parts of
your past work experience that show your ability to achieve future
goals?
Why MBA? Why XYZ school?
- Are your career goals
ambitious enough to merit investing time and money in pursuing an
MBA?
- Have you shown what you seek
from the MBA experience and how parts of the program that are unique
to the school will maximize your experience?
Strengths
- Are your two to three
biggest strengths identifiable through your essays?
- Have you selected the best
stories to project these strengths?
Out of work involvement
- Do your essays project that
you are the kinds who are keenly involved in non-work related
activities and are able to balance work and personal interests?
- Do your extracurricular
involvements project leadership?
- Do your extracurricular
interests project what you are most passionate about?
Projecting leadership
- Do your essays show that you
tapped opportunities that came your way?
- Did you create new
opportunities that benefited your career or the company/division you
worked in?
- Were you able to convince
others to see the merits of solutions you created?
- Did you show that you were
able to generate a culture of trust among your teammates because you
truly believe that teams as opposed to individual brilliance can get
a work done better.
You may have been
busy writing the best answers to the different essay questions of a
school. While that is important, controlling the overall image that
all your essays collectively project can make all the difference.
Ensuring that the questions listed above have been addressed in your
essays will ensure that you turn that admissions decision in your
favor.
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