2010-2011 MBA essay questions
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Short-term goals
(150 words)
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What are your professional goals immediately after you receive your MBA?
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Long-term goals
(150 words)
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What are your long-term career aspirations?
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Why MBA
(150 words)
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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.)
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Why Yale SOM
(150 words)
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What attracts you specifically to the Yale School of Management?s MBA program?
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Achievement
(500 words)
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Option1: What achievement are you most proud of and why?
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| Q6. |
Difficult feedback
(500 words)
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Option2: 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?
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Leadership style
(500 words)
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Option3: 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.
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Team Skills
(500 words)
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Option4: 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.
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