Calling all MIT-Sloan Applicants(2015 Intake) -Class of 2017

Dear Applicants,

Here is R1 admit/ding summary. (Based on applicants’ profile updates)

Total Applicants: 324
Admitted: 34
Waitlisted: 30
Denied: 52
Unknown Decisions: 206


A humble request to all round one applicants, please update your GMATClub profile status.
Mention your profile and application updates in the compilation of all 2015 applicant profiles 2015-profiles-w-admit-dings-results-no-discussion-176967.html
Admitted applicants’ discussion thread calling-all-mit-sloan-accepted-applicants-2015-intake-class-of-190321.html
Waitlisted applicants’ discussion thread sloan-mit-class-of-2017-calling-all-waitlisted-applicants-190322.html

I'm debating what to put in for the third question. MIT isn't exactly Booth to put in something amusing or personal for its own sake, and I don't run my own startup to include a link to the website.

MIT never really asks about what I want to do post MBA or asks about extracurriculars. Would it be a useful essay to talk about why I am dedicated to the industry I'm dedicated to? It's an interesting and nerdy enough story and ties in my ECs. It also provides cohesion to my story that MIT's other questions don't seem to look for beyond cohesion in my personality traits.

Full disclosure - this would be a re purposed version of one of the Haas essays on an experience that changed my life.

Mine is similar. I wrote about one innovative solution I designed to address a questionable situation, which illustrated my belief in being a principled leader.
There's no right way, just depends on your experience and whether you have a great example that covers both, if not, use two different ones.

Like many others, I am planning to drop this third essay thingy. I have absolutely no clue of what might of real interest to them in addition to what I and my reco guys have said to them. They really gave a lot of space to tell to them about a person's stories...!

i did an optional. i did a powerpoint. i recommend not doing an essay and doing a powerpoint or video.

I put a link for a powerpoint too, and explained some stuff that didn´t go well at university.

I third this. I sent in something visual as well. I felt like not doing it would show a lack of effort/not truly wanting to go since I hadn't visited campus either.

Hi people,

In self-recommendation essay, I have reflected on my professional stories. But wouldn't it overlap with my supervisor's actual recommendation? Also, what should be strategy in managing the self-recommendation when you are also getting one of your recommendation from your supervisor.

Mine did overlap. It's a very smart essay question to have I felt. I will strongly show the differences in the objective opinions about your work (professional reco) and the subjective opinion of your own on the same and the impact it had on you. Don't worry about it being a little similar. The personality from two different perspectives will be shown, and that's the intention.

Thanks for quick reply. I am just worried whether the difference of opinion would cast the impression that I am not a self-aware person.

you are not supposed to know what your supervisor wrote, so if they overlap its not your problem... its also a good test to a candidate's honesty and how much he exagerates.. I just answered as honestly as I could, I am sure my strenghts and weaknesses must have been more or less the same as my supervisor´s. We have talked about then so we both know them.

Guess, I'll have to make use of these last few days to come up with something useful.

The Sloan application doesn't ask for career goals anywhere. The essay question only wants you to discuss past work and experience.
I have a completely non-traditional background. Is there really no place I can discuss my short and long term goals?

Talk about it with the optional piece!

Excerpt from a student blog on the sloan website

"Turn back the clock to last November when my interviewer asked what I want to do during and after my time at Sloan. Before I begin to answer with glowing descriptions of the well-researched ways I’d contribute to the MIT community in and outside the classroom and in the world beyond Sloan, he adds: “Let’s pretend you actually know. Because you really don’t.” By virtue of my admission, I must have given him a good enough answer. But he was right. I had no idea."

Thought that was kinda funny compared to the other schools that are super critical of our goals. Personally I did not mention goals in any part of the app but I do agree if you're nontraditional then discussing goals in the optional wouldn't hurt. Similar to this student, my interviewer asked me "so do you think you know what you might want to do post MBA?" In a way that suggested it's nbd if I didn't or had multiple answers.

https://mitsloan.mit.edu/student-blogs/m ... uSLD2.dpuf

I did a Youtube video for the optional essay, but felt it played no part in my admission since it was only viewed once by my interviewer on the morning of my interview. So whoever decided to invite me to interview did so without even watching my video

In the second essay below is the a question prompt:
Please give a representative example of how the applicant interacts with other people.

I am a little confused about this prompt. Am I supposed to indicate how I interact or give an example of how I interact?