Go back to home page
Wharton MBA
| APPLICATION DEADLINES | | | | | | | September 2011 Intake | | | | | R1 | 4 October 2010 | | R2 | 4 January 2011 | | R3 | 3 March 2011 |
|
Wharton Essays
What are your professional objectives? (300 words)
Respond to 3 of the following 4 questions
1. Student and alumni engagement has at times led to the creation of innovative classes. For example, through extraordinary efforts, a small group of current students partnered with faculty to create a timely course entitled, “Disaster Response: Haiti and Beyond,” empowering students to leverage the talented Wharton community to improve the lives of the Haiti earthquake victims. Similarly, Wharton students and alumni helped to create the “Innovation and the Indian Healthcare Industry” which took students to India where they studied the full range of healthcare issues in India. If you were able to create a Wharton course on any topic, what would it be? (700 words)
2. 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)
3. Describe a failure that you have experienced. What role did you play, and what did you learn about yourself? How did this experience help to create your definition of failure? (600 words)
4. Discuss a time when you navigated a challenging experience in either a personal or professional relationship. (600 words)
|
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.
Student and alumni engagement has at times led to the creation of innovative classes. For example, through extraordinary efforts, a small group of current students partnered with faculty to create a timely course entitled, “Disaster Response: Haiti and Beyond,” empowering students to leverage the talented Wharton community to improve the lives of the Haiti earthquake victims. Similarly, Wharton students and alumni helped to create the “Innovation and the Indian Healthcare Industry” which took students to India where they studied the full range of healthcare issues in India. If you were able to create a Wharton course on any topic, what would it be? (700 words)
EssayLever Suggestions:
Base the topic of the course on a subject that you are personally passionate about and have a background in. Show how the topic is universally relevant. Share what will the course entail and how will the larger student body gain from pursuing it.
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?
Describe a failure that you have experienced. What role did you play, and what did you learn about yourself? How did this experience help to create your definition of failure? (600 words)
EssayLever Suggestions:
Identify an experience when you failed despite your best efforts. Make sure that the real cause of the failure was you and not someone or something else. Describe the situation, the challenge ahead of you, what you did or did not do, and show what happened. What did you learn about yourself from the incident? What did you learn about failing from the incident?
Discuss a time when you navigated a challenging experience in either a personal or professional relationship. (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.
If you need personalized guidance to write your essays and edit them, check out our Essay Consulting Service. Write to us at cs@essaylever.com for any questions on the service. |
