Funny MBA Application essay questions by school : The B-School Applications

Raabend · 2009-05-18T11:13:56-07:00

This was originally posted by a guest in the off-topic forum. I figured I would repost it here so you guys who dont frequent off-topic see it. ITS ALL IN GOOD FUN. If this veers toward a bad place it will be deleted. How MBA Essays Differ by School Harvard: Of which Fortune 1000 company are you going to become the CEO and why would you pick that company? Wharton: Of which Fortune 1000 company are you going to become the CFO and why would you pick that company? MIT: Draw an ASCII picture of your favorite Lord of the Rings character and describe three lessons that today's business leaders can learn from Lord Of The Rings. Stanford: Why? (100,000 words recommended) Chicago Booth: Provide a detailed statistical analysis of why Chicago-Booth is #1 in BWeek and never higher than #3 in USNews. Do the math in your head. NYU: How badly do you need a vacation from your ibanking job, and what makes you think you will be able to get back into ibanking upon graduation? Yale SOM: Which nonprofit organization do you plan to run, and what about running a nonprofit makes you feel important? Columbia: In your opinion, what is the best way to sabotage the Whartonian CFO of your company and become CFO? UC Berkeley Haas: What makes a hippie like you think you can succeed in business? Use the words 'sustainable' and 'green' at least twice in your response. Cornell Johnson: Describe how awesome being an Ivy Leaguer would make you feel. UVA Darden: How badly do you want your ass to be kicked by our professors on a scale of 9 to 10? Notre Dame: Describe how awesome Irish Football is, and list ten ways we can make our MBA program as well-known as our NFL training program. London Business School: Answer NYU's essay and use the find/replace function to replace all 'NYU' with 'LBS', 'New York' with 'London' and 'program' with 'programme'. Wash U Olin: How early are you willing to wake up to serve coffee to our medical students? UNC Kenan-Flagler: See Notre Dame but replace Irish Football with Tar Heel basketball, and NFL with NBA. U of Phx (pick 2 of 4): When your boss finds out you have enrolled here, how loudly will he/she laugh? Have you ever wasted a lot of money on something useless before? Would you be willing to appear on a billboard or would you rather keep your enrollment a secret? What is 5+8? Tuck: Do you remember summer camp? How amazing was that!?!? Don't you wish you could go to camp for 21 months? Attach a letter you wrote to your parents in fifth grade summer camp explaining how awesome it was. UMich Ross: What was the craziest thing you did while tailgating during undergrad, and are you prepared to tailgate like a pro again? In your essay, try to include the words moonshine, goat, and anus. Kellogg: Explain why you think good quantitative skills are not required in business and discuss the importance of teamwork in situations in which no one is skilled enough to do the job by himself. UCLA Anderson: Have you seen that show "The Hills?" Isn't it amazing? Discuss your strategies for getting into clubs to party with the cast of "The Hills" so you can feel important. Duke Fuqua: What are your short-term and long-term career goals? Begin your essay with the sentence, "My career goal is to provide investment and business advice to the much more successful graduates of the Duke Law and Medical Schools." Carnegie Mellon Tepper: Draw an ASCII picture of your favorite MIT student and list three things that business leaders can learn from MIT. INSEAD: List the number of languages in which you are fluent, and explain how knowing a bunch of languages and studying in one of the world's slowest economies for ten months will make you an effective business leader. CEIBS: Would you rather be upper middle class in the US, or rich in China? Pleeeeeeeease say rich in China!

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14 Feb 2011, 09:47

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I like the MIT and Tepper ones.

LOTR>MIT>CMU Hahaha

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Been a silent member of the forum for a while, and this is my first msg. Very hilarious, particularly Stanford, Tepper, and LBS...

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12 Mar 2011, 14:33

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I have thought of what off the wall questions I would ask if I were an interviewer. Really some original questions would determine business aptitude,awareness and personality a lot better than the standard stuff they ask now.

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16 Mar 2011, 11:09

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LOL and LOL

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09 May 2011, 04:47

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LOLLLLLLLLLLLLLL, yet I see truth in them!

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09 May 2011, 05:29

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being a CMU grad and an MIT hopeful, i 100% support these essay questions (what? I'm really good at ASCII drawings)

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Updated on: 13 Jun 2011, 07:07

Originally posted by fedexunledded on 05 Jun 2011, 22:31.
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Stanford and MIT/CMU are hilarious...

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Stanford's question is amazing

This topic + Alex Chu's schools-like-cars associations = the most genuine and true school research?

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I thought they were hilarious, the Stanford one got me.

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03 Oct 2013, 07:25

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bumping up for people who, after writing thousands of drafts, have come to hate essay writing.

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Too funny! Esp Stanford and INSEAD :lol:

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This is absolutely hilarious.

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I figured it is a good time to bump this topic

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I figured it is a good time to bump this topic

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this is hilarious and still so relevant

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UVA Darden: How badly do you want your ass to be kicked by our professors on a scale of 9 to 10?

This has got to be my favourite.

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