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Essay 1: Contemplate situations that have shaped your personal journey. Present what these situations have taught you about your strengths and weaknesses, and how they have shaped your personal and professional journey (400 words).
What a broad canvas ISB has handed over to the applicants, through this essay!
Start the essay by introducing who you are as a person. This is equivalent to ‘breaking the ice’ with the evaluator of your essay. Narrate significant influences that have shaped up your personality. This requires self-reflection into your growing-up years. For instance, if your Dad was in a transferable job, you would have changed cities, schools, and friends every few years, shaping you into a very adaptable and amenable person; if you are from a business background, you would have witnessed the vagaries that any business has to endure, honing your risk-taking abilities; if you were in a boarding school or had working parents, independence comes quick and easy; if you were a part of NCC in school or are from an army background, discipline becomes your forte; if you were the eldest sibling, responsibility comes naturally to you.
Each of these is your strength that has developed through your personal journey. You should now ideally tie those strengths to your professional journey. For instance, if independence is your strength, narrate an instance or two from your professional life, demonstrating how this strength has held you in good stead.
Since the essay title gives the candidates the flexibility to choose the number of strengths & weaknesses, we suggest depicting two strengths and one weakness. A word of caution on weakness: Weakness is not a personality flaw that will diminish your chances of admission; in fact, accepting your weakness is a sign of self-awareness and taking corrective action to mitigate that weakness, a sign of maturity. Depict a genuine weakness of yours. Weaknesses such as hesitation to delegate work, inability to take criticism, struggle with multi-tasking, or reluctance to freely express your thoughts in a group-setting are all genuine weaknesses.
A word of caution: Do not try to pass off a strength as a weakness. For instance, qualities such as striving for too much perfection at work, consistently setting too high a bar for yourself, or expecting the same high standards from others as the standards you set for yourself, would not qualify as genuine weaknesses. The Admissions committee will easily see through your ruse and dismiss it..
Essay 2: What intellectual experiences have influenced your approach to learning and have led you to pursue an MBA? Please describe using anecdotes from your own experiences. (400 words).
Why MBA is what this essay prompt is essentially asking you. This is basically the goals essay. This essay is best addressed along 3 major points.
a) First what you have done in life so far (primarily on the professional/academic front)
b) Second what you want to do in future
c) Third how does MBA fit into the scheme of things
Clearly there are some experiences, attributes, and interests that you already have. This is your past. You have aspirations in life; you hope these aspirations to become your future. What is currently holding you back, from realizing your aspirations? This is where MBA comes into picture.
Essay 3 (Optional): Given your experience and aspirations, how do you plan to use the PGP at ISB to fulfil your professional goals? (Optional – 250 words).
Why MBA is a question you have already answered in Essay 2. This essay prompt delves deeper, quizzing you on why you want to pursue MBA from ISB? In essay 2, you would have already identified gaps in terms of skill sets, in terms of network, or in terms of competencies, that you want the MBA to bridge.
In this essay, you would need to map those gaps with the specific offerings at ISB that will bridge those gaps. This essay requires you to do some research on ISB’s offerings, in areas such as course content, course structure, and student clubs, to build a case that applying to ISB is a well thought out decision.
Note: While essay-3 is an ‘optional’ essay, we suggest that applicants treat it as a mandatory essay, since attempting this essay will signal the ISB Admissions Committee that ISB is not just one of the numerous other schools that you are applying to; you know what ISB has to offer and are convinced that ISB is the right choice for you.
What a broad canvas ISB has handed over to the applicants, through this essay!
Start the essay by introducing who you are as a person. This is equivalent to ‘breaking the ice’ with the evaluator of your essay. Narrate significant influences that have shaped up your personality. This requires self-reflection into your growing-up years. For instance, if your Dad was in a transferable job, you would have changed cities, schools, and friends every few years, shaping you into a very adaptable and amenable person; if you are from a business background, you would have witnessed the vagaries that any business has to endure, honing your risk-taking abilities; if you were in a boarding school or had working parents, independence comes quick and easy; if you were a part of NCC in school or are from an army background, discipline becomes your forte; if you were the eldest sibling, responsibility comes naturally to you.
Each of these is your strength that has developed through your personal journey. You should now ideally tie those strengths to your professional journey. For instance, if independence is your strength, narrate an instance or two from your professional life, demonstrating how this strength has held you in good stead.
Since the essay title gives the candidates the flexibility to choose the number of strengths & weaknesses, we suggest depicting two strengths and one weakness. A word of caution on weakness: Weakness is not a personality flaw that will diminish your chances of admission; in fact, accepting your weakness is a sign of self-awareness and taking corrective action to mitigate that weakness, a sign of maturity. Depict a genuine weakness of yours. Weaknesses such as hesitation to delegate work, inability to take criticism, struggle with multi-tasking, or reluctance to freely express your thoughts in a group-setting are all genuine weaknesses.
A word of caution: Do not try to pass off a strength as a weakness. For instance, qualities such as striving for too much perfection at work, consistently setting too high a bar for yourself, or expecting the same high standards from others as the standards you set for yourself, would not qualify as genuine weaknesses. The Admissions committee will easily see through your ruse and dismiss it..
Essay 2: What intellectual experiences have influenced your approach to learning and have led you to pursue an MBA? Please describe using anecdotes from your own experiences. (400 words).
Why MBA is what this essay prompt is essentially asking you. This is basically the goals essay. This essay is best addressed along 3 major points.
a) First what you have done in life so far (primarily on the professional/academic front)
b) Second what you want to do in future
c) Third how does MBA fit into the scheme of things
Clearly there are some experiences, attributes, and interests that you already have. This is your past. You have aspirations in life; you hope these aspirations to become your future. What is currently holding you back, from realizing your aspirations? This is where MBA comes into picture.
Essay 3 (Optional): Given your experience and aspirations, how do you plan to use the PGP at ISB to fulfil your professional goals? (Optional – 250 words).
Why MBA is a question you have already answered in Essay 2. This essay prompt delves deeper, quizzing you on why you want to pursue MBA from ISB? In essay 2, you would have already identified gaps in terms of skill sets, in terms of network, or in terms of competencies, that you want the MBA to bridge.
In this essay, you would need to map those gaps with the specific offerings at ISB that will bridge those gaps. This essay requires you to do some research on ISB’s offerings, in areas such as course content, course structure, and student clubs, to build a case that applying to ISB is a well thought out decision.
Note: While essay-3 is an ‘optional’ essay, we suggest that applicants treat it as a mandatory essay, since attempting this essay will signal the ISB Admissions Committee that ISB is not just one of the numerous other schools that you are applying to; you know what ISB has to offer and are convinced that ISB is the right choice for you.
