One of the biggest mistakes MBA candidates make this time of year is forgetting that your MBA essays need to be guided by strategy. It should come before you start writing your essays and it will position you to much better craft every component of your MBA application, not just the MBA essay answers.
I’ve already talked about the importance of soul-searching, using
the seven essential questions. The answers to these questions will flow into the four essential stories every candidate applying to business school will need to create. These four stories are narratives about leadership, accomplishment, challenge, and growth.
Every top tier MBA program looks for these qualities and asks for them in various parts of the business school application. They may be “disguised” under different names but they invariably fall into one of these categories. If you do the work to build a bank of examples that collectively amount to a track record in each one of your categories, you will have a source to tap when you tackle any MBA admissions stage – answering the MBA application questions, writing your MBA admissions essays, refining your career goals, acing the MBA admissions interview, and even choosing the best fit MBA program for you when admissions offers arrive in your inbox.
Find the full guide, including specific examples of how successful candidates leveraged this framework:
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