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24 Aug 2013, 03:51
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dukealum7 - you are welcome!
HedgeWi, I think there is no straightforward personal vs professional answer to your question. What I would suggest you to do is to write a few narratives and than rank each by the following criteria, disregarding the professional vs. personal theme for now:
1. What did you usually do before the situation?
2. What you did differently after?
3. The gap between 1 and 2 would be the measure of how much you pushed yourself. The bigger, the better.
4. Did you push yourself or were you pushed by the circumstances? Here, in my opinion, you must choose a story where you actively pushed yourself, and where you had other options, but you chose the tough one.
This is just my opinion. Hope that helps.
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24 Aug 2013, 06:21
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That's correct, the only 2 things you should keep in mind is:
1.) That there is a balance in your application - you don't want all the essays to be personal
2.) That you answer the question - i.e. you were proactive in stepping out of your comfort zone rather than reactive. Quite often than not, persona l stories tend to be reactive.
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dukealum7, jumsumtak and dab,
Thanks for your valuable insights. They certainly helped me get my thoughts right.
I will stick with the personal example. It was a situation that I got myself into and isn't a very common circumstance. My other essay is altogether professional so I should be ok to make this personal.
Also this was an instance where I couldve dealt with the personal issue differently but I cHose a different approach that pushed me to my limits. This will sit well with MIT's behavioural answering style as well.
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Thanks for your valuable insights. They certainly helped me get my thoughts right.
I will stick with the personal example. It was a situation that I got myself into and isn't a very common circumstance. My other essay is altogether professional so I should be ok to make this personal.
Also this was an instance where I couldve dealt with the personal issue differently but I cHose a different approach that pushed me to my limits. This will sit well with MIT's behavioural answering style as well.
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) and if the low GMAT is due to low verbal, then maybe (a very firm "maybe") you're OK. It really depends. It's hard to say without knowing a lot more - which is probably beyond scope than we can do here in the MIT applicants' thread.
