The Yale School of Management has announced the application Due Dates for the Class of 2013. The application will go live in July, but below you’ll also find a preview of the Admissions Essay topics for the upcoming year.
Round 1
Application Due Date: October 7, 2010
Decision Notification: December 16, 2010
Round 2
Application Due Date: January 6, 2011
Decision Notification: March 25, 2011
Round 3
Application Due Date: March 17, 2011
Decision Notification: May 12, 2011
For those candidates applying to SOM through the Consortium for Graduate Study in Management, whose mission is to enhance diversity in business education and leadership, the Due Dates for that application are November 15, 2010 (Round 1) and January 5, 2011 (Round 2). For both of these Consortium rounds, the SOM decision notification date will be February 25, 2011.
Short Answer Admissions Essays
Please answer each of the four questions below with a short paragraph of no more than 150 words.
- What are your professional goals immediately after you receive your MBA?
- What are your long-term career aspirations?
- Why are you choosing to pursue an MBA and why now? (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.)
- What attracts you specifically to the Yale School of Management’s MBA program?
Personal Statements
Choose two of the following topics and answer them in Admissions Essay form. Please indicate the topic numbers at the beginning of your Admissions Essays. (500 words maximum per Admissions Essay)
- What achievement are you most proud of and why?
- 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?
- Describe an accomplishment that exhibits your leadership style. The description should include evidence of your leadership skills, the actions you took, and the impact you had on your organization.
- An effective leader for business and society is one who is able to hear, understand and communicate with people from all segments of society. In order to educate such leaders, Yale SOM is committed to promoting diversity and creating a community that cultivates a wealth of perspectives. In this spirit, describe an instance when, as part of a team, you played a role in bringing together individuals with different values or viewpoints to achieve a common goal.
- For Reapplicants (answer this topic plus one (1) of the other topics): What steps have you taken to improve your candidacy since your last application?
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