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Yale School of Management
| APPLICATION DEADLINES | | | | | | | September 2012 Intake | | | | | R1 | 6 October 2011 | | R2 | 5 January 2012 | | R3 | 12 April 2012 |
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Yale Essays
A. Short Answers (Each in a paragraph of less than 150 words)
1. What are your professional goals immediately after you receive your MBA?
2. What are your long-term career aspirations?
3. Why are you choosing to pursue an MBA? (If you plan to use your MBA experience to make a significant change in the field or nature of your career, please tell us what you have done to prepare for this transition.)
4. The intentions of our students to engage in a broad-minded business school community and to connect to an eminent and purposeful university greatly influences the Yale MBA experience. How do you plan to be involved in the Yale SOM and greater Yale communities as a student?
B.Personal Statements (Answer any two, 500 words each)
1. At the Yale School of Management, we believe the world needs leaders who:
- Understand organizations, teams, networks and the complex nature of leadership;
- Understand markets and competition in different contexts; and
- Understand the diversity of economies throughout the world and the relationships between business and society.
What experiences have you had that demonstrate your strength in one or more of these areas?
2. What is the most difficult feedback you have received from another person or the most significant weakness you have perceive in yourself? What steps have you taken to address it and how will business school contribute to this process?
3. Imagine yourself meeting your learning team members for the first time in Orientation. What is the most important thing your teammates should know about you?
4. Required for reapplicants: What steps have you taken to improve your candidacy since your last application?
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Writing Tips and Suggestions:
A. Short Answers (Each in a paragraph of less than 150 words)
1. What are your professional goals immediately after you receive your MBA?
2. What are your long-term career aspirations?
3. Why are you choosing to pursue an MBA? (If you plan to use your MBA experience to make a significant change in the field or nature of your career, please tell us what you have done to prepare for this transition.)
4. The intentions of our students to engage in a broad-minded business school community and to connect to an eminent and purposeful university greatly influences the Yale MBA experience. How do you plan to be involved in the Yale SOM and greater Yale communities as a student?
EssayLever Suggestions:
Between the four short answer questions, 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. Identify the skills and experiences you need to build up in order to achieve the goals and show how specific parts of the program will help you acquire them. Show how the extracurricular activities you plan to pursue during the program will help achieve your learning objectives.
1. At the Yale School of Management, we believe the world needs leaders who:
- Understand organizations, teams, networks and the complex nature of leadership;
- Understand markets and competition in different contexts; and
- Understand the diversity of economies throughout the world and the relationships between business and society.
What experiences have you had that demonstrate your strength in one or more of these areas?
EssayLever Suggestions:
Identify experience where you excelled in one or more areas listed in the question. Describe the situation, the challenges you faced, the solutions you devised and executed, and the results you acheived.In context of these experiences show what leadership means to you.
2. What is the most difficult feedback you have received from another person or the most significant weakness you have perceived in yourself? What steps have you taken to address it and how will business school contribute to this process?
EssayLever Suggestions:You need to identify a time when you dealt with a significant weakness, whether someone else pointed it out to you or you realized it yourself. Share what you felt, did and achieved. Also describe what remains work in progress and how the business school experience may provide the opportunity to continue the process of change.
3. Imagine yourself meeting your learning team members for the first time in Orientation. What is the most important thing your teammates should know about you?
EssayLever Suggestions:
Identify and share your strengths as a team person. What knowledge and unique experiences will let you contribute to learning teams? What role can your team members expect you to play in the learning teams?
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