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Calling all Michigan (Ross) Fall 2009 Applicants! 31 Dec 2008, 09:34
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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?

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I think the "multi-disciplinary" angle they're looking for is "How would being a rock climber (or whatever) ADD to your study of business?" Don't focus on exact translation of skills, think more about how this other possible career would make you MORE well-rounded as a business person... not why you're business skills would be better.
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Calling all Michigan (Ross) Fall 2009 Applicants! 31 Dec 2008, 10:28
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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?

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they mean slightly different things to me. for #1 i talked about specific people i met at ross events and what i learned from them. that response wouldn't be covered in #2, though i did have reasons that answered #2 as well.
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Calling all Michigan (Ross) Fall 2009 Applicants! 31 Dec 2008, 13:38
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Is there any limit to the size of the recommnedation letter? Should it be longer/shorter?
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Calling all Michigan (Ross) Fall 2009 Applicants! 01 Jan 2009, 14:51
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happy new year! happy to report that i've submitted for r2 - and i submitted my SNRE app for the dual degree through the Erb Institute
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Calling all Michigan (Ross) Fall 2009 Applicants! 01 Jan 2009, 15:42
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Submitted my app.
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Do you guys know if Ross calls all admits or is it just an online status change?
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Do you guys know if Ross calls all admits or is it just an online status change?
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From last year's thread, I think they make an effort to call people, but not everyone will get a call before the online status changes.

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Do you guys know if Ross calls all admits or is it just an online status change?

From last year's thread, I think they make an effort to call people, but not everyone will get a call before the online status changes.

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Thanks for the info...not long now until I have another status update to obsessively check for, I guess.
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Calling all Michigan (Ross) Fall 2009 Applicants! 02 Jan 2009, 05:44
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Just submitted my Ross R2 app.

We should get a roll-call going for R2 and then add it to the first page.
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I'm finishing up my R2 app today. In the employment section, did people list summer internships/part-time employment during college? Usually applications are pretty clear about what they want, but this looks relatively ambiguous.
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I'm finishing up my R2 app today. In the employment section, did people list summer internships/part-time employment during college? Usually applications are pretty clear about what they want, but this looks relatively ambiguous.
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I did not list out my internship.
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I think I had one line about it in my resume , company I worked at for 2 summers
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had a couple of questions about the resume for Ross:

1) have you actually listed academic focus? isn't is obvious by your education?
2) what abt leadership qualities? od u actually list them? never seen that before on a resume

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1. By having your major(s) listed by your degree I think you're saying what your academic focus was.
2. I think typical bullets underneath a job description usually describe what leadership traits you showed.

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Calling all Michigan (Ross) Fall 2009 Applicants! 02 Jan 2009, 17:26
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R2 applicants: Update your status here and I'll do a big lump update on the front page in a week or two.
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Calling all Michigan (Ross) Fall 2009 Applicants! 02 Jan 2009, 19:40
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guys,

i am going 5 words over in each of my essays....hope its ok....the reason i ask is 'coz its happening on each essay, not just 1 or 2.

what say?
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5 words is absolutely nothing to worry about
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Calling all Michigan (Ross) Fall 2009 Applicants! 02 Jan 2009, 20:15
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I think.. 5 words won't get you an automatic ding.
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I'm a purist. If you're only 5 words over, why not just follow the "rules" and cut out a few. Even if you think you can't, there are ALWAYS a few words that can be chopped.

I don't get why everyone is so eager to find out how much they can push the word-limit envelope... Shouldn't we all be playing by the same rules? I had to rewrite my essays about 20 times to get them just right. About 10 of those rewrites were just getting the words down.

Yeah, 5 words is probably not that big of a deal--but why chance it?
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Calling all Michigan (Ross) Fall 2009 Applicants! 02 Jan 2009, 22:31
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thanks for all your opinions guys (dghazer/cul3s and jcl246)

well just submitted my application....25 minutes past the deadline (did not do so intentionally)...

i hope i'll be ok...
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