mbadart07 wrote:
hey jainan,
Sloan essays will surely be tough coz they are not the generic why MBA, goals, diversity stuff? besides, only people who have had nice experiences to portray in these essays ought to think of applying to Sloan. I spent the longest time of my apps working on MIT essays only.
For me Tepper, Fisher and Krannert were all similar and nice to work on.. coz they all had standard questions:-)
And I strongly consider you to keep all your essays within 500-510 words.. Sloan surely is tough on word limits..
cheers
sid
i specifically asked these two questions to deputy admissions director Jon and all he told me that it's not a rule cast in stone that you can not bend...
my take...it all depends....if your essay is interesting and you must absolutely need to cross the word limit....you can...they do not appreciate it but then they will not throw your app in dustbin just because you have crossed their word limit...plus the application will probably be in pdf format and nobody is going to take a pain to actually count the no. of words in your essay...so as long as the difference is visually marginal (500 becomes 550), you can get away with it...
as for taking past experiences...again...depends...one experience from more than 3 years back can work...more number of experiences from distant past only show that you do not have any recent achievements/experiences...i would say...solid experience from distant past better than mediocre experiece then recent past...that, offcourse, is to be used only for one essay at the most...