Events & Promotions
|
|
GMAT Club Daily Prep
Thank you for using the timer - this advanced tool can estimate your performance and suggest more practice questions. We have subscribed you to Daily Prep Questions via email.
Customized
for You
Track
Your Progress
Practice
Pays
Not interested in getting valuable practice questions and articles delivered to your email? No problem, unsubscribe here.
Nov 2007:30 AM PST
-08:30 AM PST
Learn what truly sets the UC Riverside MBA apart and how it helps in your professional growth
06 Sep 2012, 17:02
Kudos
Bookmarks
krypt
they dont care if it happened or not (well, dont say you are making it up, and try to have a grain of reality), they just care about what you did and how you could have done better, an essay like that works if the start-up idea was interesting, your role was interesting, your mistakes were dense and interesting, and you come up w. some BS lessons for why your role was ineffective, it helps if idea cld have been successful and wasnt, but that is also not necessary.
Trust me, I have read 100s of failed start-up essays already -- many fr. 2+2 kids who have NOW GOTTEN IN. Yup, actual kids who answered these annoying and ineffective questions have already been admitted (just yesterday as a matter of fact), and if your read their essays, you might be tempted to OCCUPY DEE LEOPOLD'S OFFICE at how beside the pt. so much of this essay set is.
But hey, being a good future business leader is so much about just marching ahead LOVING these questions and doing your best. You don't complain, that is what I am for.
Anyway, to answer your actual question, you cert. dont need to prove that start-up existed, and they wont ask, just sound convincing, as to idea, place, duration, reasons for it going kaput and your role in that.
arunpanda22
Joined: 24 Feb 2011
Last visit: 19 May 2022
Posts: 38
Own Kudos:
Given Kudos: 6
Status:perplexed
Location: India
Concentration: Leadership, Strategy
Schools: HBS '15 (D) ISB '14 (A$) IIMA (D) Johnson '15 (S) Duke '15 (S) Insead '13 (D) LBS '14 (D) Kellogg 1YR '14 (S)
GMAT 1: 710 Q48 V40
WE:General Management (Military & Defense)
Schools: HBS '15 (D) ISB '14 (A$) IIMA (D) Johnson '15 (S) Duke '15 (S) Insead '13 (D) LBS '14 (D) Kellogg 1YR '14 (S)
GMAT 1: 710 Q48 V40
Posts: 38
Kudos:
11
06 Sep 2012, 19:44
Kudos
Bookmarks
hi,
Now that we are nearing round 1 deadline most of the round1 warriors would have already finished off their essays and my guess is a substantial number would be on short answers and applications.
for benefit of the whole my fellow applicants ( and of course for seeking comments:-) ) I would outline two approaches to the question that I came across during my research. Experts please point which approach would be suitable.
APPROACH 1: write specific job function, specific geographical location, specific company you want to work. then write why MBA and for internationals why MBA in US? problem with this approach: word count- I wrote this approach and I could squeeze just 77 words for 500 characters. plus if you address all these each point is not addressed to the extent one would like.
APPROACH 2 : Write why MBA- how it is a bridge between your past job and future choice that you have indicated. if possible push in why HBS into this. Problem with this approach: one does not indicate specific task, location and appointment choice that actually show clarity of goals of the applicant.
HBSGURU and HBSGrad any comments that you might be able to offer will be highly appreciated!!!
Now that we are nearing round 1 deadline most of the round1 warriors would have already finished off their essays and my guess is a substantial number would be on short answers and applications.
for benefit of the whole my fellow applicants ( and of course for seeking comments:-) ) I would outline two approaches to the question that I came across during my research. Experts please point which approach would be suitable.
APPROACH 1: write specific job function, specific geographical location, specific company you want to work. then write why MBA and for internationals why MBA in US? problem with this approach: word count- I wrote this approach and I could squeeze just 77 words for 500 characters. plus if you address all these each point is not addressed to the extent one would like.
APPROACH 2 : Write why MBA- how it is a bridge between your past job and future choice that you have indicated. if possible push in why HBS into this. Problem with this approach: one does not indicate specific task, location and appointment choice that actually show clarity of goals of the applicant.
HBSGURU and HBSGrad any comments that you might be able to offer will be highly appreciated!!!
06 Sep 2012, 19:50
Kudos
Bookmarks
Sandy this is more of a general question rather than a specific HBS one but I havent found info anywhere and was hoping you could help. If I went to an undergrad school that gave out the rare A+s which were 4.3/4.0, do I need to recalculate my GPA such that A+s are equivalent to a 4.0? Thanks for your help.
3.9 3.9 3.5 3.1 3.3 but because majors are difficult and this is the normal trend, especially since 60% of my class was kicked out from course) and 760 GMAT. Female from MNC (chevron, shell, exxon) oil and gas, first from sales role and then finance role in refinery. Strong extra-C's in college and post-college. Goal to expand agriculture-related family biz..Southeast asian. (not chinese or indian).
