{"id":15020,"date":"2012-10-24T05:08:11","date_gmt":"2012-10-24T12:08:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/gmatclub.com\/blog\/?p=15020"},"modified":"2012-10-24T05:09:18","modified_gmt":"2012-10-24T12:09:18","slug":"ut-mccombs-2013-mba-application-questions-deadlines-tips","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gmatclub.com\/blog\/ut-mccombs-2013-mba-application-questions-deadlines-tips\/","title":{"rendered":"UT McCombs 2013 MBA Application Questions, Deadlines, Tips"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"UT<\/a>Required Essays:<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

1. Describe how your professional and personal experiences have led you to pursue an MBA at this time. Please share with us your short and long term goals and why the Texas MBA at McCombs is the program best positioned to help you achieve them. (Limit: 800 words)<\/em><\/p>\n

This question is a classic MBA goals<\/span><\/a> question \u2014 with a Longhorn twist. How have your past experiences molded your goals? The response should highlight achievement while illuminating your clear, realistic goals, which happen to require an MBA.<\/span><\/p>\n

The Longhorn twist is \u201chow will a Texas MBA help you achieve [your goals]?\u201d McCombs\u2019 location in Texas puts it in the midst of one of the fastest growing economies in the US and at a gateway to Latin America. Does its location have anything to do with you wanting to attend UT? Say so! Perhaps location is not the driver for you, and its elements of McCombs program that appeal. Reveal how those elements will help you achieve your goals. Finally McCombs is very proud of its four core principles: Knowledge and Understanding; Responsibility and Integrity; Communication and Collaboration; and a Worldview of Business and Society. How are they a part of your reasons for applying to UT Austin?<\/span><\/p>\n

2. At the University of Texas at Austin, our motto is \u201cWhat starts here changes the world.<\/a>\u201d Here at McCombs, we are looking for students who share this vision. We believe that the MBA experience is a transformative one and that our students are able to have a positive impact, not only on their own lives, but also in their workplaces, their local communities, their professional industries and\/or the world generally.<\/p>\n