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Stanford GSB
| APPLICATION DEADLINES | | | | | | | September 2010 Intake | | | | | R1 | 7 October 2009 | | R2 | 6 January 2010 | | R3 | 7 April 2010 |
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Stanford Essays
Essay A: What matters most to you, and why?
Essay B: What are your career aspirations? How will your education at Stanford help you achieve them?
Essay C: Answer two of the four questions below. Tell us not only what you did but also how you did it. What was the outcome? How did people respond? Only describe experiences that have occurred during the last three years.
Option A: Tell us about a time when you built or developed a team whose performance exceeded expectations.
Option B: Tell us about a time when you made a lasting impact on your organization.
Option C: Tell us about a time when you motivated others to support your vision or initiative.
Option D: Tell us about a time when you went beyond what was defined, established, or expected.
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Writing Tips and Suggestions:
Word limit for all essays: 1800 words.
What matters most to you, and why?
This question evaluates how well you understand yourself.After you have identified what matters to you, reflect on why it matters so much?Write about experiences that prove what you are saying.Let us help you ponder over this question and write a suitable response. Check out our Essay Consulting Service
What are your career aspirations? How will your education at Stanford help you achieve them?
What career are you driven to pursue?Is this choice meaningful in context of what you have said matters most to you?What
past experiences qualify you to succeed in the career you have chosen?What skills and experiences do you require in order to succeed in your chosen career?How will you gain these skills and experiences through the Stanford MBA?
Answer two of the four questions below.
Tell us about a time when you built or developed a team whose performance exceeded expectations.
Choose this question only if you consider team skills as a significant strength, and if you have been at the helm of high performing teams.Identify the initiatives you took that enabled great team work.If there were challenges you had to face, what were they and how did you manage them?What does the experience project as the main factors behind great teamwork.
Tell us about a time when you made a lasting impact on your organization.
Have you created processes that created substantial improvements? Have you provided insights that improved existing ways of doing things? Did you change the way people worked in your organization? Identify an experience when you created an impact by thinking or acting in a way that was different from usual.What led to the initiative? What challenges did you face? How did you overcome them?What impact did you create?
Tell us about a time when you motivated others to support your vision or initiative.
When you found people opposing your novel ideas, how did you make them see your point of view.When they did not act as you wanted them to, how did you drive them into action?If they thought differently, how did you change their thinking?
Tell us about a time when you went beyond what was defined, established, or expected.
Recall an experience when you questioned the existing way and conceived a better way to replace the old one.Ideas can come as sparks but implementing them requires hard work, overcoming opposition, arranging support, finances, contacts... How did you convert your idea into reality?
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