UCLA Anderson Essay Topics 2012-2013

Following up on their earlier announcement of the 2012-2013 application deadlines, UCLA Anderson has announced its essay questions for the 2012-2013 admissions season.

Essay 1: What is your proudest achievement outside the workplace, and how has it impacted you? (700 words maximum)

Essay 2: What are your short-term and long-term career goals, and how will an MBA from UCLA Anderson specifically help you achieve these goals? (700 words maximum)

Re-applicant Essay: Please describe your career progress since you last applied and ways in which you have enhanced your candidacy. Include updates on short-term and long-term career goals, as well as your continued interest in UCLA Anderson. (700 words maximum)

Optional Essay: Are there any extenuating circumstances in your profile about which the Admissions Committee should be aware? (250 words maximum)

Source: UCLA Anderson 

INSEAD MBA エッセイTopics 2012-2013

INSEAD has just released its MBA Essay Topics for the 2012-13 season: 

Job Description:

1. Briefly summarise your current (or most recent) job, including the nature of work, major responsibilities, and, where relevant, employees under your supervision, size of budget, clients/ products and results achieved. (250 words maximum)

2. Please give a full description of your career since graduating from university. If you were to remain with your present employer, what would be your next step in terms of position? (250 words maximum)

3. If you are currently not working, what are you doing and what do you plan to do until you start the MBA programme if applicable? (250 words maximum)

Essays:

1. Give a candid description of yourself, stressing the personal characteristics you feel to be your strengths and weaknesses and the main factors, which have influenced your personal development, giving examples when necessary. (600 words maximum)

2. Describe what you believe to be your two most substantial accomplishments to date (if possible specify one personal and one professional), explaining why you view them as such. (400 words maximum)

3. Describe a situation taken from your personal or professional life where you failed. Discuss what you learned. (400 words maximum)

4. a) Discuss your short and long term career goals. (300 words maximum) and b) How will studying at INSEAD help you achieve your vision? (250 words maximum)

5. Please choose one of the following two essay topics:

a) Have you ever experienced culture shock? What insights did you gain? (250 words maximum)

b) Describe the ways in which a foreigner in your country might experience culture shock. (250 words maximum)

6. Is there anything that you have not mentioned in your application that you would like the Admissions Committee to know? (350 words maximum) This section is optional.

7. In case of reapplication, please provide an update on any new aspects of your professional, international, academic or personal profile that would not have been included in your previous application. Please also explain your motivation for re-applying to INSEAD. (400 words maximum)

Source: INSEAD 

MBA IQ Service for Pre-MBA Study.

Poets&Quants has a very interesting article about pre-MBA courses for people anxious about entering an MBA program

The MBA IQ service is an interactive online curriculum designed to give students baseline knowledge in 12 core areas of business before they start their graduate degrees.

For a fee of $195 per person, enrollees receive 60 days' use of MBAIQ.com. There, they can take quizzes to determine their own MBA IQ scores-- quantitative figures demonstrating an overall knowledge of business as well as individual scores for each of the dozen areas, or "modules."

Students can identify their weaknesses and study them, for example learning such things as the difference between static budgets and continuous budgets, the finer points of penetration testing, and how to calculate weighted-average cost of capital.

Students also have access to other self-assessment quizzes, 134 reading assignments, 1,000 E-flashcards, short daily lessons (example: "What is a Type I error?") and a 353-page workbook. 

Many of the best business schools hold pre-MBA summer boot camps for students who need a little extra help but they are often cursory reviews of the most common accounting or finance concepts.

The service already has several hundred customers and some are business schools, which get a bulk rate and offer the online program to their students either for free or at a discount as well as companies that pay a licensing fee and incorporate the program into their corporate universities. 

Ten corporations have subscribed, some of them using MBA IQ as their own "business acumen" programs. And MBA IQ is currently working out an agreement with book-publisher Wiley to sell the program directly to business schools and share the profits.

The University of Chicago's Booth School of Business recently began offering the MBA IQ to newly admitted and returning students for $175 per person. 

Source: CNN Money

Interview Mistakes to Avoid!

BusinessWeek has just published a short and humoros piece on interview mistakes. Some of these seem very obvious

- Don't cry! 

Even if you feel the pressure, anticipate the obvious questions and prepare your answers

- Don't interview the interviewer!

Too much confidence is too much of a good thing. 

- Don't touch!

-Hugging the interviewer is out!

-Don't perform!

Don't bring an easel, don't bring props

-Don't forget your manners

Don't sniff, pick your nose, don't forget to switch your cell phone off.

For more on this article, please see:
 MBA Admissions Interviews Gone Bad—Really Bad

Georgetown McDonough Deadlines 2012-2013

 Georgetown McDonough has released its 2012-13 deadlines

Round 1

Application Deadline: October 15, 2012
Decision Notification: December 15, 2012

Round 2

Application Deadline: January 5, 2013
Decision Notification: March15, 2013

Round 3

Application Deadline: April 1, 2013
Decision Notification: May 15, 2013

For more information, visit McDonough’s admissions website.

Georgetown McDonough MBA エッセイ 2012-13

Georgetown  McDonough has released its essay topics for the 2012-23 season.

Essay 1: Limit  – 1 page, double spaced, 12 pt font

State your short-term career goal immediately following graduation from the Georgetown MBA program. What skills have you developed on which you will build? What skills will you need to develop?

Essay 2: Limit  – 1/2 page, double spaced, 12 pt font

State your long-term career goal. How does the position you describe in Essay One serve as a building block for your long-term career goal?

Essay 3: Limit  – 1  1/2 pages, double spaced, 12 pt font

Describe the essence of who you are both personally and professionally.

Essay 4: Limit  – 1/2 page, double spaced, 12 pt font

Service and community engagement are a way of life at Georgetown, following the University’s tradition of women and men for others. How have you demonstrated service to others?

Optional Essay 1: Limit  – 1/2 page, double spaced, 12 pt font

If you are not currently employed full-time, use this space to provide information about your current activities.

Optional Essay 2: Limit  – 1 page, double spaced, 12 pt font

Please provide any information you would like to add to your application that you have not otherwise included.

Re-applicant Essay: Limit  – 1 page, double spaced, 12 pt font

How have you strengthened your candidacy since your last application? We are particularly interested in hearing about how you have grown professionally and personally. In addition, please update the Admissions Committee on your short-term career goals following graduation from the Georgetown MBA program.

Source: Georgetown McDonough admissions website.

Duke Fuqua 締め切りDeadlines 2012-2013

Duke Fuqua has released its 2012-2013 application deadlines as follows:

Early Action
Deadline: September 19, 2012
Interview invitations sent by: October 9, 2012
Notification: October 30, 2012

Round 1
Deadline: October 24, 2012
Interview invitations sent by: November 28, 2012
Notification: January 8, 2013

Round 2
Deadline: January 4, 2012
Interview invitations sent by: February 7, 2013
Notification: March 18, 2013

Round 3
Deadline: March 21, 2013
Interview invitations sent by: April 10, 2013
Notification: May 10, 2013

Source: Duke Fuqua