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rscricket, this is a Ross forum.. You can join the Indian discussion thread and ask these questions.
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rscricket, I moved your post over to the Duke thread.

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Question on the first essay for career switchers - just wondering in the question about goals - how much if at all did you talk about your work experience. For example if you are currently in corporate and want to get into consulting or pe did you really describe your path etc? Or did you just go straight to these are my goals..
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Question on the first essay for career switchers - just wondering in the question about goals - how much if at all did you talk about your work experience. For example if you are currently in corporate and want to get into consulting or pe did you really describe your path etc? Or did you just go straight to these are my goals..

Explain why u have those goals.What motivated towards them,kind of stuff.
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Question on the first essay for career switchers - just wondering in the question about goals - how much if at all did you talk about your work experience. For example if you are currently in corporate and want to get into consulting or pe did you really describe your path etc? Or did you just go straight to these are my goals..

I tried to make a logical connection between my past work experience and my future goals in two ways:

1) Show how my past work experience has lead me to choose the goals I outlined
2) Show how my past work experience can contribute to my future goals

Neither one was very detailed; only one sentence for each point.

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Question on the first essay for career switchers - just wondering in the question about goals - how much if at all did you talk about your work experience. For example if you are currently in corporate and want to get into consulting or pe did you really describe your path etc? Or did you just go straight to these are my goals..

i talked about why i'm interested in the career and what led to that interest. to relate it to my current career, i talked about how the skills i have from my other jobs will help me in this new career.
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For the alternate career, I said public school principal. I'm currently teaching in the inner city and if I didn't go to bschool, I would probably want to remain in education and run a charter school as a principal, so that made sense as the answer for that question.

I took the question to being, if you weren't doing what you're doing now (and Post-MBA career), what would you do. Wouldn't public school principle and teacher be too similiar? That's my impression, it's a little too similiar.
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Hmm... That's certainly possible, but it said if you weren't pursuing the career in Essay 1 (post-MBA career) what would you do? Hopefully that won't sink my app. I tend to think it matters more how you explained how that alternate career's skills enhance yourself as a bschool applicant than precisely what you chose as your alternate career. We'll see in a little over two weeks whether I made a big mistake with that question or not...
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Hmm... That's certainly possible, but it said if you weren't pursuing the career in Essay 1 (post-MBA career) what would you do? Hopefully that won't sink my app. I tend to think it matters more how you explained how that alternate career's skills enhance yourself as a bschool applicant than precisely what you chose as your alternate career. We'll see in a little over two weeks whether I made a big mistake with that question or not...

I think Teacher/Principal/managing school all come under same category.They are basically trying to know who you are.
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Hey all,

Wanted to seek your opinion on this one....

1) What and/or who influenced your decision to apply to Ross?

Compare it to

2) How will XYZ school help you achieve these goals?

What is the difference in scope, if any between the two questions?

Thanks.
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Hey all,

Wanted to seek your opinion on this one....

1) What and/or who influenced your decision to apply to Ross?

Compare it to

2) How will XYZ school help you achieve these goals?

What is the difference in scope, if any between the two questions?

Thanks.

I feel both are similar.
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Guys

Are Indian applicants converting their % into GPA? If so,how?
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I left it blank. I heard that schools have their own sweet way of converting % to GPA based on the country and the region within a country.
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For the alternate career, I said public school principal. I'm currently teaching in the inner city and if I didn't go to bschool, I would probably want to remain in education and run a charter school as a principal, so that made sense as the answer for that question.

I thought I had this one done...but i am having 2nd thoughts. A teacher will be a mentor etc...so the skills will be soft skills..interpersonal, communication, leadership etc. Ross q is how will it help solve multi-disciplinary problems which I think are problems in fin+sales+mktg+ops+IT - ie a combination of a multiple of these. So what do soft skills have anything to do with these.

What I mean is you can become a principal and expand the school and say mktg+fin skills were reqd to handle this but how to relate soft skills to multi-disciplinary pbs?

thanks!
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My goals essay is at 545 words.Unable to trim it any further without loosing essence. :(
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My goals essay is at 545 words.Unable to trim it any further without loosing essence. :(

I think this should be fine. Mine was 539 words.
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My goals essay is at 545 words.Unable to trim it any further without loosing essence. :(

I think this should be fine. Mine was 539 words.

That helps.Thanks.
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