Applicant1978,

Good luck with your other MBA/Career endeavours. Is it alright to ask you why you decided to withdraw? Hopefully, some lucky candidate on the wait-list will be awarded your spot!

Hi there all
Im an aspiring MBA applicant from Africa for the london business school MBA program
I have written my essays
i want to appeal to anyone to help me look at them and make suggestions please

Thank you in anticipation of a favorable response

Hey there buddy.
Well the first thing to keep in mind is that the application form is like any other part of your application (Resume. Essays. etc.) in that IN ADDITION to answering the question, this is a great opportinity for you to promote yourself (which should explain some of the logic behind my answers....)

Now on to your questions, piece by piece:


1. What's your organisation's main area of activity?:
Am I supposed to describe my internal team or the overall business?

Whichever is better for you. Meaning if you are in a unique and rare and very demanded niche, you should definitely be mentioning that rather than the overall business. If there is nothing special, then go with the overall industry. (If you mention the niche, you should ALSO mention the overall, after all the question asks for your ORGANISATION)

2. Number of Employees:
Am I supposed to describe my internal team or the overall business?

Seems to be asking for overall


On the Previous Employment page:
Number of Employees:
Am I supposed to describe my internal team or the overall business?

Overall

Education
Do you feel that your academic performance so far gives an accurate indication of your potential for success on the programme? If so, why? If not, why not?
Would you explain a 3.5?

No!!!! That would seem very nitpicky.

Additional Information
Tell us about your main interests and activities in your free time*
Any advice on how would you answer this?

Tell the truth, trying to make yourself as interesting and diverse seeming as possible. Sport, culture, business, hobbies, etc. Get as much interesting stuff as you can,

We encourage applicants to take into consideration the impact of study on family and friends. Who have you discussed your plans with, and what was the response? Feel free to give the names of members of the school community (alumni, students, faculty, staff etc) as appropriate.*
Any advice on how would you answer this?

Again, you should be telling the truth here. They do want to see of course 1. that your family/significant other/friend are very supportive 2. that you have some connection with the LBS community. 3. You can also consider showing how you doing LBS will impact their lives positively as well

Which other schools have you applied to?
Any advice on how would you answer this?

Here normally I recommend to write all the schools that are not obviously better. So since LBS is one of the best in Europe, you shouldn't have too much fo a problem here. If you were applying to HBS or Stanford I might omit them from the answer.

Hope this helps dude...