Berkeley Haas Essay Topics 2012-2013

Berkeley Haas has released its essay topics for the 2012-2013 admissions season.  

(Haas also announced its 2012-2013 application deadlines earlier this year)

The essay questions are as follows:

Required Essays (1.-4. all 250 word max)

1. If you could choose one song that expresses who you are, what is it and why?
2. What is your most significant accomplishment? 
3. Describe a time when you questioned an established practice or thought within an organization. How did your actions create positive change? 
4. Describe a time when you were a student of your own failure. What specific insight from this experience has shaped your development? 
5. a. What are your post-MBA short-term and long-term career goals? How have your professional experiences prepared you to achieve these goals?
   b. How will an MBA from Haas help you achieve these goals? (750 word maximum for 5a. and 5b.)
   
   

Optional Essays

1. Please feel free to provide a statement concerning any information you would like to add to your application that you haven’t addressed elsewhere. (500 word maximum)
2. If not clearly evident, please discuss ways in which you have demonstrated strong quantitative abilities, or plan to strengthen quantitative abilities. You do not need to list courses that appear on your transcript. (250 word maximum)

Supplemental Information

1. If you have not provided a letter of recommendation from your current supervisor, please explain; otherwise, enter N/A.
2. List in order of importance all community and professional organizations and extracurricular activities in which you have been involved during or after university studies. Indicate the nature of the activity or organization, size of the organization, dates of involvement, offices held, and average number of hours spent per month.
3. 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.
4. Please explain all gaps in your employment since earning your university degree.
5. 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.)

Haas also announced its 2012-2013 application deadlines earlier this year.  For more

Source: Haas admissions website.