SAMPLE ESSAY QUESTIONS FOR MBA APPLICATIONS



1. Discuss the factors that influenced your career decisions to date. Please describe your professional development to date and goals for the future. How will the MBA experience influence your ability to achieve your goals?

2. Write about a time when you experienced change within an organization. Identify and evaluate your role in the process.

3. Describe a personal achievement that has had a significant impact on your life.

4. What else should the Admissions Committee know about you?

5. Describe the most difficult ethical dilemma you have faced in your professional life. How did you resolve this dilemma? Would you resolve it differently today and if so, why?

6. Do you feel that your grades and/or your GMAT scores adequately reflect your abilities & your readiness to commence MBA studies? If not, why not?

7. Please provide us with a summary of your personal & family background. Include info. About your parents and siblings, where you grew up, & perhaps a highlight or special memory of your youth.

8. Discuss a situation, preferably work related, where you have taken a significant leadership role. How does this event demonstrate your managerial potential?

9. What do you consider to be the most important emerging trend or significant event in business, government or society? Why?

10. Discuss a personal failure and its impact on your professional practices or management style. Why do you consider it a failure? How did you resolve it? Did it change your professional outlook?

11. Discuss the most significant personal or professional risk. What was its outcome? How did it change you as a person?

12. What are your interests outside your job or school?


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