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Wharton MBA
| APPLICATION DEADLINES | | | | | | | September 2012 Intake | | | | | R1 | 3 October 2011 | | R2 | 4 January 2012 | | R3 | 5 March 2012 |
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Wharton Essays
What are your professional objectives? (300 words)
Respond to 2 of the following 3 questions:
1. Reflect on a time when you turned down an opportunity. What was the thought process behind your decision? Would you make the same decision today? (600 words)
2. Discuss a time when you faced a challenging interpersonal experience. How did you navigate the situation and what did you learn from it? (600 words)
3. "Innovation is central to our culture at Wharton. It is a mentality that must encompass every aspect of the School - whether faculty research, teaching or alumni outreach." - Thomas S. Robertson, Dean, The Wharton School
Keeping this component of our culture in mind, discuss a time when you have been innovative in your personal or professional life. (600 words)
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Writing Tips and Suggestions:
What are your professional objectives? (300 words)
EssayLever Suggestions:
Logically connect your past experience with the short-term goals and the short-term goals with long-term goals. Show how your professional strengths, abilities and interests are ideally suited for the career you have chosen.
Reflect on a time when you turned down an opportunity. What was the thought process behind your decision? Would you make the same decision today? (600 words)
EssayLever Suggestions:
Recall a time when you rightly or wrongly turned down an opportunity, something that could have offered benefit. Share your reasons and thought process. Why did you do what you did? Why would or wouldn't you do the same thing again?
Discuss a time when you faced a challenging interpersonal experience. How did you navigate the situation and what did you learn from it? (600 words)
EssayLever Suggestions:
Recall a time when you had to manage a difficult relationship. Explain why managing the relationship was difficult. Show what you did and how the other person responded.
"Innovation is central to our culture at Wharton. It is a mentality that must encompass every aspect of the School - whether faculty research, teaching or alumni outreach." - Thomas S. Robertson, Dean, The Wharton School
Keeping this component of our culture in mind, discuss a time when you have been innovative in your personal or professional life. (600 words)
EssayLever Suggestions:
Recall an experience when you did not follow the regular way of doing something; instead, devised a unique way to fulfill the objective that needed accomplishing. Explain what you did, why, and what you accomplished.
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