Application Deadline Decisions Announced
\nRound 1 October 04, 2015 December 18, 2015
\nRound 2 January 05, 2016 March 18, 2016
\nRound 3 March 21, 2016 May 13, 2016<\/p>\n
This year\u2019s application process has three rounds. You must submit undergraduate and graduate transcripts when you apply. Unofficial transcripts are accepted. However, should you be accepted, you must submit official transcripts. Other documents that you should include with your Ross Business School application are GMAT or GRE scores, essays, a resume and one recommendation letter. International applicants, whose native language is non-English, must submit TOEFL or PTE scores.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe Admissions Committee seeks to bring together talented students from a broad range of academic and professional backgrounds. Applications are reviewed holistically; no single factor \u2013 e.g., GPA, GMAT\/ GRE score, or years of work experience\u2014 determines the outcome. Applications are reviewed with three broad criteria in mind:
\n\uf0d8 Intellectual ability
\n\uf0d8 Professional and personal achievements
\n\uf0d8 Interpersonal, communication, and teamwork skills \u201c<\/p>\n
Essay Questions:<\/strong><\/p>\n The number of questions for 2015-16 application cycle remains the same and so does the length of the questions Like last year, two essays (400 words each) are required. Last season, Ross asked applicants to explain what they were most proud of professionally and personally, in two separate essays. The school has retained one question on this subject, but this year\u2019s question offers the applicants an option to choose either personal or professional accomplishment, not both. The second question marks a return of the traditional career goals questions from previous years which requires you to tell the school what your career path is and why you chose this path.<\/p>\n Let\u2019s take a look at the two essay questions:<\/p>\n Essay 1: What are you most proud of and why? How does it shape who you are today? (400 words)<\/strong><\/p>\n This question allows you to choose your story from your professional, academic, or personal experiences or accomplishments. Indeed, the \u201cwhat\u201d of what you are most proud of is as important as the \u2018why\u2019 of it.<\/p>\n Since this question is designed to determine your fit with the school\u2019s values and priorities, you will need to do a lot of self-reflection and come up with a story that best aligns with Ross\u2019s values. Create a list of your two proudest professional accomplishments, and your two proudest personal or community achievements. Then reflect on how each of these accomplishments helped you demonstrate your values and priorities.<\/p>\n For example, if you have chosen a professional accomplishment, it may not be the one that had saved your company millions of dollars or created a platform for your promotion, but it was significant in other respects. The experience might have taught you leadership skills or team working skills that paved the way for your future success or it might have enabled you to resolve conflicts within the team and turned around your relationship with your member \/ members.. You may also choose an experience form your personal life (may be a personal setback) or community life that is meaningful to you because it gave you an opportunity to make an impact on other people\u2019s lives and demonstrate your personal values of resilience, honesty, and integrity. Whatever story you choose, don\u2019t forget to explain what makes you proud of your experience and how you have grown from that experience and emerged a better person, or a professional, or a member of community .<\/p>\n When the school asks you \u201cWhat are you most proud of and why?\u201d they don\u2019t want to know about your career history and all of your accomplishments throughout your career ( some of my students actually made this mistake); instead they want you to share a single accomplishment that makes you feel proud of yourself. Ross admission director Soojin Kwon explains in her blog: \u201cDon\u2019t write two paragraphs of introduction before stating what you\u2019re most proud of. You can even start with, \u201cI am most proud of\u2026.\u201d Write as you would speak. To a real person. We, who read the essays, are real people.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n As for the structure, I recommend that you follow the 4 part structure :<\/p>\n 1. Situation To learn more, refer to my blog on accomplishment essay<\/p>\n https:\/\/myessayreview.com\/blogs\/?p=1199 This is a straightforward goals question that aims to know why you want to go to business school. Begin your essay with a brief career history and provide details about how you have pursued your career, acquired new skills and progressed along your career path all these years. Explain your rationale behind each career move. Then go on to describe why you believe that an MBA is the next logical step in your career path NOW? What are those skills that you still lack which you hope to acquire by an MBA?<\/p>\n Then explain your post MBA and long term goals. Please be as specific as you can in discussing your post MBA goals. That is, specify which industry, which company, and what position you would like to see yourself at after graduating from Ross. Even if you are not 100% sure, you should be clear and quite decisive about your short term goals. You need to make sure that there is a logical connection between short term and long term goals. For example, you do not want to say that your long term goal is to be CEO of XYZ Company if your past experience, current skills set, and your short term goals do not at all seem to be leading to that direction. For questions, email me at poonam@myessayreview.com Dates & Deadlines Application Deadline Decisions Announced Round 1 October 04, 2015 December 18, 2015 Round 2 January 05, 2016 March 18, 2016 Round 3 March 21, 2016 May 13,…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":141,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[113],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-29275","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-applications","entry"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gmatclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29275","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gmatclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gmatclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gmatclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/141"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gmatclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=29275"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/gmatclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29275\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":29277,"href":"https:\/\/gmatclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29275\/revisions\/29277"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gmatclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=29275"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gmatclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=29275"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gmatclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=29275"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\n2. Action
\n3. Outcome
\n4. Significance<\/p>\n
\nEssay Question 2: What is your desired career path and why? (400 words)<\/strong><\/p>\n
\nPlease remember that the \u2018goals\u2019 essay requires you to make a realistic connection between your past (past experience and skills), present (your need of an MBA), and future (your future goals). The key is to justify your rationale behind your chosen career path.
\nFinally, even though the essay prompt doesn\u2019t ask you why you are interested in Ross, it makes sense to add a concluding sentence about how an MBA from Ross will bring to closer to your career objectives. Establish a connection between their offerings and your goals, and interests to justify your \u2018fit\u2019 with program.
\nAs you develop your stories, aim at helping Ross admissions committee get to know you more fully.
\nRoss admission director Soojin Kwon explains in her blog, \u201cFor both questions, there isn\u2019t an answer that we \u201cwant to hear\u201d other than a response that demonstrates that you\u2019ve done some self-reflection and gives us a sense of you as a person.\u201d<\/em>
\nFor Soojin Kwon\u2019s detailed guidelines on the two essay questions, click here
\nhttps:\/\/michiganross.umich.edu\/admissions-blog\/2015\/05\/20\/here-are-new-essay-questions-michigan-ross-mba-application<\/p>\n
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