TechSA wrote:
Now that R1 has submitted, I'm interested to know what everyone put as their award/achievement? I couldn't really think of any at work where formally recognized achievement on a piece of paper or medal is close to nonexistent. I put one down from undergrad but I was at school a long time ago
What I really don't understand is why apart of the resume, which by definition contains successes and description of positions/activities all business schools would still ask you to fill the information separately in open-ended questions fields. In my case, I feel I didn't answer the open-ended questions of Stanford the way I should have, simply because it was the first application I worked on and I only later came with better ideas in other applications. Assuming all my signifcant successes are on the resume, picking the one that I see most important provides a lot of information to the adcom regarding my conception of things.
Especially in Stanford, I believe each little tiny piece of the application counts. I wish they could have focus more on essays, resume, and testing scores which usually cover most of the questions but I doubt this is the case