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Columbia CBS MBA deadlines 2021-2022

Round	Application Deadline	Notification
Early Decision	Oct 6, 2021	Rolling
Merit Fellowship	Jan 5, 2022	Rolling
Regular decision	April 8, 2022	Rolling

Columbia CBS Essay Question
Essay Question: - Applicants must complete one short answer question and three essays.

Short Answer Question:
What is your immediate post-MBA professional goal? (50 characters maximum)

Essay 1
Through your resume and recommendations, we have a clear sense of your professional path to date. What are your career goals over the next three to five years and what, in your imagination, would be your long-term dream job? (500 words)

Essay 2 and 3:
Please respond to two (2) of the three (3) essay questions listed below:

Q1. *New Question Alert* The Phillips Pathway for Inclusive Leadership (PPIL) is a new co-curricular program designed to ensure that every CBS student develops the skills to become an ethical and inclusive leader. Through PPIL, students attend programming focused on give essential diversity, equity, and inclusion skills: Creating an Inclusive Environment, Mitigating Bias, Communicating Across Identities, Addressing Systemic Inequality, and Managing Difficult Conversations. Tell us about a time you were challenged around one of these five skills. Describe the situation, the actions you took, and the outcome. (250 words)

Q2. Why do you feel Columbia Business School is a good fit for you? (250 words)

Q3. Tell us about your favourite book, movie, or song and why it resonates with you? (250 words)

Optional Question:
Is there any further information that you wish to provide the Admissions Committee? If so, use this space to provide an explanation of any areas of concern in your academic record or your personal history. This does not need to be a formal essay. You may submit bullet points. (Maximum 500 Words)

Reapplication Question:
How have you enhanced your candidacy since your previous application? Please detail your progress since you last applied and reiterate how you plan to achieve your immediate and long term post-MBA professional goals. (Maximum 500 words).

Recommendation Questions: ONE reco needed
(Recommended word limit: 1000 words)
Q1. How do the candidate's performance, potential, background, or personal qualities compare to those of other well-qualified individuals in similar roles? Please provide specific examples.

Q2. Please describe the most important piece of constructive feedback you have given the applicant. Please detail the circumstances and the applicant's response.
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COLUMBIA BUSINESS SCHOOL

The application dates for  JANUARY 2022  entry is: 6 October, 2021

The application dates for  AUGUST 2022  entry are:
  EARLY Deadline : 6 October, 2021 
  MERIT scholarship Deadline:  5 January, 2022 
 Final Deadline:  8 April, 2022 
 *DEADLINES ARE ROLLING

Deferred Enrollment Program Deadline:   15 April, 2022

Essay Question:   - Applicants must complete one short answer question and three essays.

Short Answer Question:   
What is your immediate post-MBA professional goal? (50 characters maximum)

Essay 1  
Through your resume and recommendations, we have a clear sense of your professional path to date. What are your career goals over the next three to five years and what, in your imagination, would be your long-term dream job? (500 words)

Essay 2 and 3:  
 Please respond to two (2) of the three (3) essay questions listed below:

Q1.  *NEW QUESTION ALERT*  The Phillips Pathway for Inclusive Leadership (PPIL) is a new co-curricular program designed to ensure that every CBS student develops the skills to become an ethical and inclusive leader. Through PPIL, students attend programming focused on give essential diversity, equity, and inclusion skills:  Creating an Inclusive Environment, Mitigating Bias, Communicating Across Identities, Addressing Systemic Inequality, and Managing Difficult Conversations . Tell us about a time you were challenged around one of these five skills. Describe the situation, the actions you took, and the outcome. (250 words)

Q2. Why do you feel Columbia Business School is a good fit for you? (250 words)

Q3. Tell us about your favorite book, movie, or song and why it resonates with you? (250 words)

Optional Question:   
Is there any further information that you wish to provide the Admissions Committee? If so, use this space to provide an explanation of any areas of concern in your academic record or your personal history. This does not need to be a formal essay. You may submit bullet points. (Maximum 500 Words)

Reapplication Question:  
How have you enhanced your candidacy since your previous application? Please detail your progress since you last applied and reiterate how you plan to achieve your immediate and long term post-MBA professional goals. (Maximum 500 words).

Recommendation Questions:   ONE reco needed
 (Recommended word limit: 1000 words) 
Q1. How do the candidate's performance, potential, background, or personal qualities compare to those of other well-qualified individuals in similar roles? Please provide specific examples.

Q2. Please describe the most important piece of constructive feedback you have given the applicant. Please detail the circumstances and the applicant's response.

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PersonalMBACoach · Answer

It is time to get started on your Columbia Business School application as Columbia MBA essays for class of 2024 business school hopefuls were just released.

The 2021-2022 Columbia Business School MBA application deadlines are as follows:

Early Decision:  October 6, 2021
 Merit Fellowship:  January 5, 2022
 Regular Decision:  April 8, 2022

Columbia Business School’s 2021-2022 MBA Essays:
 
The Columbia Business School essays changed slightly for 2021-2022 applications.

So, what is new? Essay 1 remains unchanged while candidates have a choice for essays 2 and 3.
While the Columbia Business School application itself is not yet open, candidates should begin their essays ASAP. Given Columbia Business School’s rolling admissions, getting an early start is particularly crucial.

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mbaMissionJenK · Answer

On the shorter essays...

After the past year, we are not at all surprised to see many of the top programs adding questions related to diversity and inclusion to their applications. In business school—as in life in general—you will encounter people who think differently from you, operate according to different values, and react differently to the same stimuli. And success in an endeavor often involves evaluating and even incorporating the views of others in one’s efforts. With this essay prompt, CBS wants to learn about your firsthand experience with such differences. While you are in the school’s MBA program, you will be surrounded every day by individuals who are unlike you in a multitude of ways, and you will need to work in tandem with and alongside these individuals when analyzing case studies, completing group projects, and participating in other activities both inside and outside the classroom. And now, CBS has created a specific program to help students more easily and appropriately navigate topics and situations concerning “diversity, equity, and inclusion.” But first, the admissions committee wants some evidence that you are capable of learning such lessons and incorporating them into your subsequent behaviors and mind-set.

To start, be sure that you understand the three highlighted concepts fully: diversity, equity, and inclusion. Of the three, equity is the most easily misinterpreted, with people often assuming it is interchangeable with equality. While equality implies same, equity implies fair—requiring not that everyone be provided for or treated identically but rather that each person be provided for or treated appropriately for their particular situation. Similarly, true inclusion goes beyond simply providing a seat at the table, so to speak, for everyone on a team and demands that each person be invited or at least allowed to contribute in a meaningful way and that those contributions be valued on par with those of other team members.

Read on for more tips and analysis at:
https://www.mbamission.com/blog/2021/06 ... 2021-2022/

DSomesh · Answer

Hi, given the rolling process, when is a good time to submit the application. I am planning to submit the application within the next 2 weeks - am I late or is it still worth a shot? I am from a competent pool of applicants, so want to understand whether to even apply to Columbia considering the rolling process.

BoundMan · Answer

Are CBS student ambassadors even replying to your emails?

Nikhil · Answer

If you haven’t already maybe email like a few of them and hope one of them replies.

Any one else had success reaching out to Student’s ambassadors?

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BoundMan · Answer

Nikhil

I wrote to 5 people in two months, 1 of them finally responded.
I was thinking how demotivated these people may be...

BoundMan · Answer

Is there a text size, font recommended for the CBS essays?

BoundMan · Answer

We need to upload a current picture. Should it be a casual or professional photo?_

QuabityAssurance · Answer

In our weekly series of Essay writing for the T-15 and other top schools, the second in the queue is Columbia Business School. CBS, an M7 school is highly ranked by students and recruiters alike. Receiving around 6500 applications every year, CBS is one of the most coveted place for a B-school applicant.

Should you be interested in having your essays reviewed, please fill up this form, the most appropriate essays shall be chosen and will be given a personalized review : https://forms.gle/fT5t4JSWcwxSyoGL9

Let us look at the essay questions released by Kellogg in its last cycle, our analysis, and how to tackle them ahead of this application deadline.

The following four essays are required of all applicants:

1. Short Answer Question: What is your immediate post-MBA professional goal? (50 characters maximum)

Read it again, It is not 50 words, these are 50 characters! 50 characters would translate to 25 words. The word limit implies that your answer should be clear and pithy.

From the website of CBS, following are some of the examples :

Quote:

Examples of possible responses:
“Work in business development for a media company.”
“Join a strategy consulting firm.”
“Launch a data-management start-up.”

Note that this question is repeated for the 10th time in a row and is likely to be repeated in this cycle and hence it is crucial to be clear of your immediate goal. Make sure that the goal is practical and can be realized within the CBS framework.

2.Essay 1
Through your resume and recommendations, we have a clear sense of your professional path to date. What are your career goals over the next three to five years and what, in your imagination, would be your long-term dream job? (500 words)

Note that the Essay prompts reflects your career progression via your resume and then goes on to ask for your short term goal and a long term goal ("dream job")
Where are you and what you are going to do are the possible questions one should ask themselves making sure that the goals resonate with the prior experience, knowledge, and skills. This means that you need to portray a coherent story of your MBA journey and the path you would like to take to further figure out your journey up and coming in another 3 to 5 years.

The question further asks you to imagine your dream job and this might seem a little mawkish but this could be an opportunity for you to delineate your long-term vision. Though not necessary but how your short-term goals help you achieve your long-term goals with the acquired skill set, leadership and journey will further bolster your vision to adcom.

Essay 2
Why do you feel Columbia Business School is a good fit for you? (250 words)

Now, this could be as personal as possible and to each his own's fit. CBS offers a number of prospects that make you belong there. Note that this is a most likely question asked in various B-school interviews. the more detailed (yet succinct ) your answer the more it goes on to show your research and interest in a particular school. Often times one would write about curriculum, the community, experiential learning and engagement via school tribe, career tracks, location and its advantage, your fit in particular, and how only and only CBS can help you realize your goal.
Note that this question details heavy and yet the word limit is 250 words. It could be pretty challenging to write all aspects of why CBS and hence pick the ones that most resonate with you.

Essay 3
Tell us about your favorite book, movie, or song and why it resonates with you. (250 words)

It is more of a personal question asked herein and it is your chance to show to adcom what are your values and belief. What songs make you-You or at least speaks about you or maybe there is something you want to convey via this art. There is no harm in picking up something obscure or unusual as long as you clearly mention enough details about that material. Whether or not you connect this answer to your short-term goal is up to you. The values and the core belief system are something that forms your long-term vision and it would be good to show how a book, movie, or song fits in well there.

Further notes from Admissions Page : https://academics.gsb.columbia.edu/mba/ ... quirements

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