Chicago (Booth)

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Columbia (CBS)

Short Answer Question: What is your immediate post-MBA professional goal? (50 characters maximum)

Essay 1: Through your resume and recommendation, we have a clear sense of your professional path to date. What are your career goals over the next three to five years and what is your long-term dream job? (500 words)

Essay 2: The Phillips Pathway for Inclusive Leadership (PPIL) is a co-curricular program designed to ensure that every CBS student develops the skills to become an ethical and inclusive leader. Through PPIL, students attend programming focused on five essential diversity, equity, and inclusion skills: Creating an Inclusive Environment, Mitigating Bias and Prejudice, Managing Intercultural Dialogue, Addressing Systemic Inequity, and Understanding Identity and Perspective Taking.

Tell us about a time when you were challenged around one of these five skills. Describe the situation, the actions you took, and the outcome. (250 words)

Essay 3: We believe Columbia Business School is a special place. CBS proudly fosters a collaborative learning environment through curricular experiences like our clusters and learning teams, an extremely active co-curricular and student life environment, and career mentorship opportunities like our Executives-in-Residence program.

Why do you feel Columbia Business School is a good fit for you academically, culturally, and professionally? Please be specific. (250 words)

Optional Essay: If you wish to provide further information or additional context around your application to the Admissions Committee, please upload a brief explanation of any areas of concern in your academic record or personal history. This does not need to be a formal essay. You may submit bullet points. (Maximum 500 Words)

Cornell (Johnson)

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Dartmouth (Tuck)

Duke (Fuqua)

HBS

Essay: As we review your application, what more would you like us to know as we consider your candidacy for the Harvard Business School MBA program? (900 words)

INSEAD

Coming soon!

LBS

Essay 1: What are your post-MBA goals and how will your prior experience and the London Business School programme contribute towards these? (500 words)

Additional information: (This question is optional) Is there any other information you believe the Admissions Committee should know about you and your application to London Business School? (500 words)

MIT (Sloan)

Michigan (Ross)

NYU (Stern)

Northwestern (Kellogg)

Stanford (GSB)

Essay 1: What matters most to you, and why?

Essay 2: Why Stanford?

Additional information for essays: Both essays combined may not exceed 1,050 words. We recommend up to 650 words for Essay A and up to 400 words for Essay B.

U Penn (Wharton) 

UC Berkeley (Haas)

Essay 1: What makes you feel alive when you are doing it, and why? (300 words maximum)

Essay 2: How will an MBA help you achieve your short-term and long-term career goals? (300 words max)

Video Essay 3: The Berkeley MBA program develops leaders who embody our four Defining Leadership Principles. Briefly introduce yourself to the admissions committee, explain which leadership principle resonates most with you, and tell us how you have exemplified the principle in your personal or professional life. (Not to exceed 2 minutes.)

Short answer: Can you please describe any experience or exposure you have in the area of diversity, equity, inclusion, justice, and belonging whether through community organizations, personal, or in the workplace? (150 words max)

Optional Information 1: We invite you to help us better understand the context of your opportunities and achievements.

Optional Information 2: This section should only be used to convey relevant information not addressed elsewhere in your application. This may include explanation of employment gaps, academic aberrations, supplemental coursework, etc. You are encouraged to use bullet points where appropriate.

Supplemental information:

o If you have not provided a letter of recommendation from your current supervisor, please explain. If not applicable, enter N/A.

o List, in order of importance, significant community and professional organizations and extracurricular activities in which you have been involved during or after university studies. Include the following information for each using the format below:

• Name of organization or activity

• Nature of organization or activity

• Size of organization

• Dates of involvement

• Offices held

• Average number of hours spent per month

o List full-time and part-time jobs held during undergraduate or graduate studies indicating the employer, job title, employment dates, location, and the number of hours worked per week for each position held prior to the completion of your degree.

o If you have ever been subject to academic discipline, placed on probation, suspended, or required to withdraw from any college or university, please explain. If not, please enter N/A. (An affirmative response to this question does not automatically disqualify you from admission.)

UCLA (Anderson)

UNC (Kenan-Flagler)

USC (Marshall)

UT Austin (McCombs)

UVA (Darden)

Yale (SOM)