Essay 1 : Explain the path that has led you to pursue an MBA as the next step in your professional/personal development. Describe your short and long term post-MBA career goals. What or who has influenced your choice of schools, and what is it specifically about Chicago GSB that is going to help you succeed? (1,500 words maximum for this essay)
Essay 2 : Choose one of the following two questions (500 words maximum for this essay)
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Describe the most challenging team environment in which you have been involved. |
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Describe a time when you exhibited leadership skills even though you were not the designated leader. |
Essay 3 & 4 : Choose two of the following five questions (500 word each maximum)
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How have you used your personal characteristics and resources to improve the lives of others? |
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Describe a time when you felt a strong sense of purpose in your life. |
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What would you consider the biggest failure or disappointment in your life? |
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If you can spend one day as someone else, who would it be? Why? |
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To be successful in life, you must be able to distinguish between a fleeting trend and a permanent development. Tell us of a time when you had to |
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make such a distinction. |
Essay 5 : If there is further information that you believe would be helpful to the Admissions Committee, please provide it below (500 word maximum).
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Joint MBA/AM Applicants (Business and Area Studies)
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Essay : Please outline your reasons for applying to the particular joint-degree program you have indicated, i.e. how do your interests in business and in area studies or international relations comprise a coherent intellectual whole? Discuss the subfields in topics in you wish you concentrate your studies and research, and relate the academic and professional experiences that you have prepared you for graduate study in these areas. Indicate you career objectives in light of your proposed program of study. (1000 words)
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