2008 Application Information:

U-Penn Wharton Full Time MBA:
https://www.wharton.upenn.edu/mba/admissions/apply/overviewapply.cfm

Application Deadlines
Rd 1: October 11, 2007 Decisions released by December 20, 2007
Rd 2: January 3, 2008 Decisions released by March 20, 2008
Rd 3: March 6, 2008 Decisions released by May 15, 2008

Online Application URL
https://app.applyyourself.com/?id=UPENN-GSB

First-time Applicant Essays:
All first-time applicants are required to complete four essays, with the option of a fifth essay that may be used to address extenuating circumstances. Reapplicants who applied for the Entering Fall 2006 or 2007 Class are to complete the re-applicant essays. All other reapplicants are to complete the first-time applicant essays.

REQUIRED:

1. Describe your career progress to date and your future short-term and long-term career goals. How do you expect a Wharton MBA to help you achieve these goals, and why is now the best time for you to join our program? (1,000 words)

2. Describe a failure or setback that you have experienced. What role did you play and what did you learn about yourself? (500 words)

3. Tell us about a situation in which you were an outsider. What did you learn from the experience? (500 words)

4. Please Complete One Of The Following Two Questions:

* Where in your background would we find evidence of your leadership capacity and/or potential? (500 words)

* Is there anything about your background or experience that you feel you have not had the opportunity to share with the Admissions Committee in your application? If yes, please explain. (500 words)

OPTIONAL:

5. If you feel there are extenuating circumstances of which the Committee should be aware, please explain them here (e.g., unexplained gaps in work experience, choice of recommenders, TOEFL waiver request, inconsistent or questionable academic performance, significant weaknesses in your application). (250 words)


Re-applicant Essays:
Reapplicants are required to complete three essays, with the option of a fourth essay that may be used to address extenuating circumstances. (Please note: re-applicants essays are for Fall 2006 or Fall 2007 applicants only. Reapplicants from prior years are to complete the first-time applicant essays).

REQUIRED:

1. Describe your career progress to date and your future short-term and long-term career goals. How do you expect a Wharton MBA to help you achieve these goals, and why is now the best time for you to join our program? How has your candidacy improved since the last time you applied? (1,000 words)

2. Tell us about a situation in which you were an outsider. What did you learn from the experience? (500 words)

3. Please Complete One Of The Following Two Questions:

* Where in your background would we find evidence of your leadership capacity and/or potential? (500 words)

* Is there anything about your background or experience that you feel you have not had the opportunity to share with the Admissions Committee in your application? If yes, please explain. (500 words)

OPTIONAL:

4. If you feel there are extenuating circumstances of which the Committee should be aware, please explain them here (e.g., unexplained gaps in work experience, choice of recommenders, TOEFL waiver request, inconsistent or questionable academic performance, significant weaknesses in your application). (250 words)

Consolidated links to specific school information on Page 1 of this thread.

https://www.gmatclub.com/phpbb/viewtopic ... ht=#336816

Dartmouth, "TUCK"
https://www.tuck.dartmouth.edu/admissions/

Discussion on GMAT Club
https://www.gmatclub.com/phpbb/viewtopic.php?t=49003

Application Deadlines
EA: October 10, 2007 Decisions released by December 14, 2007
Rd 2: November 14, 2008 Decisions released by February 8, 2008
Rd 3: January 9, 2008 Decisions released by March 21, 2008
Rd 4: April 2, 2008 Decisions released by May 16, 2008

Essays:
1: Why is an MBA a critical next step toward your short- and long-term career goals? Why is Tuck the best MBA program for you? (If you are applying for a joint or dual degree, please explain how the additional degree will contribute to those goals.)

2: Tuck defines leadership as “inspiring others to strive and enabling them to accomplish great things.” We believe great things and great leadership can be accomplished in pursuit of business and societal goals. Describe a time when you exercised such leadership. Discuss the challenges you faced and the results you achieved. What characteristics helped you to be effective, and what areas do you feel you need to develop in order to be a better leader?

3: Discuss the most difficult constructive criticism or feedback you have received. How did you address it? What have you learned from it?

4: Tuck seeks candidates of various backgrounds who can bring new perspectives to our community. How will your unique personal history, values, and/or life experiences contribute to the culture at Tuck?

5 (Optional): Please provide any additional insight or information that you have not addressed elsewhere that may be helpful in reviewing your application (e.g., unusual choice of evaluators, weaknesses in academic performance, unexplained job gaps or changes, etc.). Complete this question only if you feel your candidacy is not fully represented by this application.

6: (To be completed by all reapplicants) How have you strengthened your candidacy since you last applied? Please reflect on how you have grown personally and professionally.

WTF is wrong with ISB?

Essay 2 reeks of babus still living in the Raj era.

Hi,

When Stan GSB says "All essays must be double spaced, and in a 12pt font. For more detailed information on length and format, visit Stanford’s essay page" then what exactly do they mean by double spaced??

As in do they mean that the line sapcing should be 2 or that there are two spaces between every word.

An NO - this is not the stupidest question I could come up with

spacing between lines....haha

ive never heard of 2 spaces between every word

It just specifies 12pt font. I really hope that the adcom at Stanford is a typeface fascist, and dings any applications with essays in Times New Roman or Comic Sans (there are others I hate, but may as well go for the key two).

Are we sure that these are the actual essays for the admissions for Fall 2008? I looked up on the website but found a different set of essays there?

I checked the Wharton web site. These are the correct set of essays. Please see https://adcomblog.wharton.upenn.edu/admi ... a-adm.html

Yes, if you notice it says reapplicants from 2007. I combined several Wharton posts but I believe the person who posted the essays found them on the Wharton blog and are not yet posted...but these are the right ones.

I hope people verify that they are posting the right information, though I do check when I combine posts.

PS: I hope I dont annoy people by combining posts and removing stuff. I am trying to keep the information here specific to schools' applications and as easy to find as possible. I think some more schools need to have threads opened about them and try to move discussions over there...so if you are applying to specific schools feel free to start threads.

They are the right Wharton essays, the adcoms posted it to their blog and in their S2S forum.

Columbia

Discussion on Gmat Club
https://www.gmatclub.com/phpbb/viewtopic.php?t=49281

Deadlines
January 2008 Accelerated Program
Application Review Began: April 25, 2007
Decision Period: Within 8 weeks of submission
Application Deadline: October 10, 2007

September 2008 Early Decision
Application Review Begins: August 15, 2007
Decision Period: Within 10 weeks of submission
Application Deadline: October 10, 2007

September 2008 Regular Decision
Application Review Begins: January 9, 2008
Decision Period: Within 12 weeks of submission
Application Deadline: March 3 (international applicants) or April 16 (US-based applicants)


https://www0.gsb.columbia.edu/mba/admiss ... ons/essays

Essays MBA September Early Decision - Fall - 2008
The following essay questions are part of the application to Columbia Business School. In addition to learning about your professional aspirations, the Admissions Committee hopes to gain an understanding of your interests, values and motivations through these essays. How you answer these essays is at your discretion, there are no right answers and we encourage you to answer each question thoughtfully and honestly.

Reapplicants: If you have applied to Columbia Business School within the past year, you are required to submit only the re-applicant essay: How have you enhanced your candidacy since your previous application? Please detail your progress since you last applied and reiterate your short-term and long-term goals. Explain how the tools of the Columbia MBA will help you to meet your goals and how you plan to participate in the Columbia community. Dual Degree applicants: please address the following questions within your response to essay number 1: Please indicate the Dual Degree programs and schools to which you applied or intend to apply. Please discuss how the Dual Degree will enhance your short-term or long-term goals, and at which school you intend to begin your studies. If you would like to work on your application in Microsoft Word and then paste it into the essay field, please save your document as a text (.txt) file first. Failure to save as text first may result in characters being truncated from the end of your essays, so please be sure and paste in the text version of your essay. You may also work directly in Notepad (or an equivalent text-only editor), which will automatically save your document as a text (.txt) file. The format may not be retained, but this will not affect admissions decisions.

1. What are your short-term and long-term post-MBA goals? How will Columbia Business School help you achieve these goals (Recommended 750 word limit)? *

2. In a recent speech delivered to the Association to Advance Collegiate Schools of Business, Dean Glenn Hubbard discussed the new, essential elements of the 21st century MBA: Read the speech
https://www.gsb.columbia.edu/admissions/ ... ry_MBA.pdf. How will your MBA prepare you for a rapidly changing business environment (Recommended 500 word limit)? *

3.The entrepreneurial mindset is an integral component of the Columbia Business School MBA. Please discuss a time in your own life when you have identified and captured an opportunity (Recommended 500 word limit). *

4. Please tell us about what you feel most passionate in life (Recommended 250 word limit). *

5. (Optional) Is there any further information that you wish to provide to the Admissions Committee? Please use this space to provide an explanation of any areas of concern in your academic record or your personal history.

Whats wrong with Comic Sans ........next you'll tell me that wingdings is "unprofessional". An for those uninitiated in the fine art of patent drafting I'll have you know that many patent attorneys require two spaces between every word (boosts up their revenues as they charge per page).

OK so now I am gonna write out my essay with double line spacing......damn!!! Am fast running out of excuses , will really have to start writing one of these days ;(

NYU Stern Deadlines 2007-2008

https://w4.stern.nyu.edu/admissions/full ... doc_id=442

Application Deadlines
Rd 1: November 15, 2007 Decisions released by February 15, 2007
Rd 2: January 15, 2008 Decisions released by April 1, 2008
Rd 3: March 15, 2008 Decisions released by June 1, 2008

Essays: (don't appear any different than last year )

https://w4.stern.nyu.edu/admissions/full ... 837#Essays

1: Professional Aspirations Think about the decisions you have made in your life. Describe the following: (500 word maximum, double-spaced, 12-point font)
(a) What choices have you made that led you to your current position?
(b) Why pursue an MBA at this point in your life?
(c) What is your career goal upon graduation from NYU Stern? What is your long-term career goal?

2: Fit with Stern The NYU Stern community is one of our strongest assets. Please answer the following questions about community: (500 word maximum, double-spaced, 12-point font)
(a) What is your personal experience with the Stern community? What actions have you taken to learn more about us?
(b) How would you contribute to our community as a student?
(c) How will you benefit personally and professionally from the Stern community?

3: Personal Expression Please describe yourself to your MBA classmates. You may use any method to convey your message (e.g. words, illustrations). Feel free to be creative.

4: Additional Information (optional) Please provide any additional information you would like to bring to the attention of the Admissions Committee. These may include gaps in employment, your undergraduate record, plans to retake the GMAT or any other relevant information.

An explanation must be provided in Essay 4 if:
You have been subject to academic discipline, placed on probation or required to withdraw from any college or university.
You have ever been convicted of a crime.
You cannot provide a recommendation from your current supervisor.

You guys may want to put this information in the first post of this thread too:

The "Calling applicants" threads (Hmm, a lot are still missing):

Berkeley R1: https://www.gmatclub.com/phpbb/viewtopic.php?t=48803

Chicago R1: https://www.gmatclub.com/phpbb/viewtopic.php?t=48955

Columbia ED: https://www.gmatclub.com/phpbb/viewtopic.php?t=49281

Stanford R1: https://www.gmatclub.com/phpbb/viewtopic.php?t=48804

Tuck EA: https://www.gmatclub.com/phpbb/viewtopic.php?t=49003

UCLA R1: https://www.gmatclub.com/phpbb/viewtopic.php?t=48805

I nominate mNeo for moderator status...he has been a great poster and addition to the site. Plus he can help this fall when its starts to get crazy and the people in schools already disappear.

Oh, cool ! I second that nomination !!