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Kellogg EMBA Application Essay Tips and Deadlines [2022 – 2023]

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Kellogg’s two required EMBA application essay questions present a paradox: they’re straightforward and complex. Together, they draw out a fully rounded view of you as a person and as a professional, what you’ve done and how you think and perceive the world. To the extent possible, ground your essays in detail and concrete experience, and …

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Wharton Executive MBA Essay Tips & Deadlines [2022-2023], Class Profile

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The Wharton EMBA targets engaged professionals who have an expansive but clear vision for their future career. Further, Wharton seeks students who incorporate social and ethical values in their vision and actions. Wharton is very transparent about one value that it currently esteems: diversity – and hence it asks applicants to address diversity directly. Wharton …

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Columbia EMBA Application Essay Tips & Deadlines [2022 – 2023]

Columbia EMBA essay tips and deadlines

The first two Columbia EMBA essay questions ask you to project into the future, both near and long term – they address what you hope, plan, want, expect – and dream. The third essay question is a “getting to know you” question, it reflects the adcom’s interest in your well-roundedness. In these essays, a potential pitfall, given …

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Stanford MSx Application Essay Tips & Deadlines [2022 – 2023]

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The relatively complex MSx online application and your resume (and ideally your recommendations as well) will establish you as a leader in your organization (and possibly even your domain), and that leadership role is essential if you want to be a qualified MSx applicant. But it’s just a qualification. Being qualified is just step one, because …

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Indiana Kelley MBA Essay Tips & Deadlines [2022 – 2023]

Indiana Kelley MBA Essay Tips Deadlines 2022 2023

These questions are a straightforward mix of professional and personal. The adcom wants assurance that you have a clear professional focus and a solid plan for making productive use of the Kelley MBA resources. Beyond that, they’re looking for engaging applicants who are willing to share their life experiences and understand what they can contribute. …

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Short and Sweet: Tips for Writing “Mini” MBA Essays

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What is an admissions committee’s message or intent in limiting an “essay” answer to 100, 200, or 300 characters? Just the facts, please. Actually, just the key facts. No adornment, no backstory, no extended rationale. In working with clients on such questions, for example the CBS short answer goals question, I’ve been struck by how hard providing “just the …

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Why MBA? The Winning Ingredients of a Dynamic MBA Goals Essay

Choosing MBA goals that are practical, not abstract or theoretical In the good old days, when Wharton still offered feedback to rejected applicants (way back, early 2000s), I spoke with a potential client who was reapplying to Wharton. He had received feedback on his first application, and the adcom had, in fact, really liked his …

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IMD Executive MBA Essay Tips & Deadlines [2021 – 2022]

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IMD Executive MBA application essays IMD EMBA essay #1 Please briefly state your career objectives. (160 words)  This length equates to one long or two short paragraphs. Be specific: note intended roles/positions, industry, possibly geography. Give an example of companies that interest you. State not just what you want to do, but, most important, WHY. …

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UC Berkeley Haas EMBA Application Essay Tips and Deadlines [2021 – 2022]

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The Haas EMBA essay questions reflect the importance of fit with the program. This fit includes being a mature, self-aware person who is open and will engage productively and meaningfully with the Haas EMBA cohort. Keep on the radar screen as you conceive and draft your essays Haas’s Defining Leadership Principles: “Question the Status Quo, Confidence Without …

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Harvard Kennedy School MPP and MPA2 Application Essay Tips [2021 – 2022]

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The essays discussed below are for the MPP and the two-year MPA applications. (The MPA/ID and the MC/MPA and Mason’s program have different prompts.) HKS seeks accomplished, well-rounded master’s students – people with proven academic success, strong leadership and career potential, and “commitment to advancing the public interest.” The school also wants the student body to be …

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London Business School Executive MBA Essay Tips & Deadlines [2022 – 2023]

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The 2 application essay questions, although quite different, both ask you to discuss how you’ll connect with the LBS EMBA program, classmates, and community. And this emphasis in turn underscores LBS’s values of collaboration, contribution, and engagement. I suggest keeping these values on the radar screen as you conceive and draft these two essays. And …

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