Here are MIT MBA Essays for the Fall 2012 Entry:
Cover Letter
Prepare a cover letter (up to 500 words) seeking a place in the MIT Sloan MBA Program. Describe your accomplishments and include an example of how you had an impact on a group or organization. Your letter should conform to standard business correspondence and be addressed to Mr. Rod Garcia, Director of MBA Admissions.
Analysis: the cover letter requires formal business writing, testing your professional abilities and your judgment to balance significant contact within the limitation of the format. It is a good preparation for your MBA, where you will be sending cover letters to recruiters, but if you have no experience in writing such letters this could be a daunting task. Start by listing your accomplishments and the impact story, just to get the content right. Once you have the ideas, you can work on the format. Since the cover letter’s purpose is to seek a place in the MIT Sloan MBA program, you should address the “Why MIT” here as well.
We are interested in learning more about you and how you work, think, and act. For each essay, please provide a brief overview of the situation followed by a detailed description of your response. Please limit the experiences you discuss to those which have occurred in the past three years.
In each of the essays please describe in detail what you thought, felt, said, and did.
- Essay 1: Please describe a time when you went beyond what was defined, expected, established, or popular. (500 words or fewer, limited to one page)
Analysis: show your courage, creativity, ability to handle conflict and experiment. Make sure that you pick a strong example and not just a project were you worked extremely hard. This could be a story about innovation, building relationship or transforming yourself.
- Essay 2: Please describe a time when you convinced an individual or group to accept one of your ideas. (500 words or fewer, limited to one page)
Analysis: show your ability to communicate well, influence and motivate others. It’s not about being the one with the right solution, it’s about your ability to socialize the idea, build consensus and drive decision making.
- Essay 3: Please describe a time when you took responsibility for achieving an objective. (500 words or fewer, limited to one page)
Analysis: this question is more sophisticated and harder to answer. One way to make it easier – think about impacting your environment Yes, you can go with professional stories but they should be more than your average project, design or client. If you are applying to HBS, this story would be on your accomplishment essay. If you are writing about a professional story, make sure to have something different from the 1st and the 2nd essay.
October 25, 2011 (1st round, notification by February 6, 2012)
January 10, 2012 (2nd round, notification by April 2nd,2012)
* MIT MBA applications should be received by 12 noon Pacific Standard Time (2000 GMT) .
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