Does Area of Interest affect your application?

Hi

Thanks for posting. Here's our advice:
- You do need to specify an area of interest or a specialization. Schulich and Rotman both have plenty of those, so make sure to go through all the options to find the one best aligned to your short-term post-MBA objective.
- Beyond this, they are not looking at filling up quotas for any specialization. It is alignment with your profile that matters. Try and avoid the 'undecided' choice. This is especially relevant for Rotman - as their main essay does not cover your career goals at all (for Schulich, this is not the case), so you want to give them as much as a sense as you can of where you are headed after you graduate.
- A school will not take your application less seriously if you mention a specialization that is not aligned to the traditional strength areas of that school. However, it may do that if what you mention in your specialization has little relevance to what you have done earlier.

Hope this helps. Feel free to come back with more queries as needed.

Hello unasir,

Hope this finds you well.

You must indicate an area of specialization that goes with your career goals. Mentioning "undecided" is not recommended. Besides, we do not think they are trying to fill a quota


Thanks.

All the best!

Thanks for your input everyone!