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May 2008:00 AM PDT
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What’s in it for you- Live Profile Evaluation Chat Session with Jenifer Turtschanow, CEO, ARINGO. Come with your details prepared and ARINGO will share insights! Pre-MBA Role/Industry, YOE, Exam Score, C/GPA, ECs Post-MBA Role/ Industry & School List.
May 2110:00 AM EDT
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Most candidates submit a resume built for a recruiter. Admissions committees are reading for something else entirely. This session covers what adcoms actually evaluate, where strong candidates lose ground before a single essay is written, and why...
May 2208:30 AM PDT
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Get the inside scoop on what makes Emory’s Goizueta Business School great and how you can present a strong MBA application. Explore the difference between our One-Year MBA and Two-Year MBA programs, talk to our admissions team, and meet students.
May 2203:00 PM EDT
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The old MBA recruiting playbook is dead. Here’s how top admits are getting ahead this summer.
May 2308:00 PM PDT
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May 2707:30 PM EDT
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May 2910:00 AM PDT
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As you're contemplating what to write about in your MBA essays, one common question is whether you should share details of difficult or traumatic personal experiences?
To be perfectly honest, there's no one answer to this. Much depends on what you experienced, how it affected you, how comfortable you are sharing it, and where you're applying.
While places such as Stanford University Graduate School of Business specifically ask for details of how your personal perspective has been shaped, other school's questions are limited to professional goals and experience.
One of the keys to talking about difficult experiences in the admissions context is "post-traumatic growth", that is, focusing on how an experience shaped you and your perspective and made you stronger rather than detailing how unfortunately awful it was.
Here's a helpful framework from the Harvard Business Review about thinking of this:https://hbr.org/2020/07/growth-after-trauma
And you can also see how NOT to fall into a persistent myth that leads too many MBA essays astray: https://www.mymbapath.com/insights/mba- ... s-mistakes
To be perfectly honest, there's no one answer to this. Much depends on what you experienced, how it affected you, how comfortable you are sharing it, and where you're applying.
While places such as Stanford University Graduate School of Business specifically ask for details of how your personal perspective has been shaped, other school's questions are limited to professional goals and experience.
One of the keys to talking about difficult experiences in the admissions context is "post-traumatic growth", that is, focusing on how an experience shaped you and your perspective and made you stronger rather than detailing how unfortunately awful it was.
Here's a helpful framework from the Harvard Business Review about thinking of this:https://hbr.org/2020/07/growth-after-trauma
And you can also see how NOT to fall into a persistent myth that leads too many MBA essays astray: https://www.mymbapath.com/insights/mba- ... s-mistakes
