Kellogg class of 2014 essays released!

Well, yep, I know... I haven´t been around too much. The internship is consuming me! but it is good :)

Ok, so Kellogg released the 2011-2012 application essays! You can find them here. I am not sure, but I believe that essay 4 changed a little bit! Also, the title is wrong, because the 1Ys that will enter this recruiting season, will be class of 2013!

Search the internet for the tips of the experts to better approach the essays!

Good luck!

Some tips on the goals essay

This is a post for R2 applicants! Or maybe, for next years applicants!
As I don't know the results of the universities yet, I rather not to give any advice based on my own essays. If I get admitted to some school, maybe I will post some tips and insights of how I adressed the essays.

In the mean time, I recommend you to read this post in the Beat the GMAT Blog, that I think it's great! It's from the founder of magoosh and makes a thorough analysis of his own goals essay for Berkeley!

Some application strategy

Given that neither Kellogg nor Wharton sent me an invite yet (ok, now i'm worried!) and that my Chicago interview didn't go spectacularly, I will give it a shot to Tuck. I have been intensively working on the Tuck's essays I once began writing. I know I have a good fit with Tuck's close-knit community!

I believe that Tuck having the 1st round the same day that Wharton's mid decision and very close to chicago´s is not a mere coincidence... And it worked for me!!

I am surprised at Kellogg as I have not received any news. Not even the mandatory invitation to interview!

Anyway... I still have some hope that at least one of these schools will admit me!

MIT essays weekend

We have only seven days to the Sloan deadline!
This weekend was a very productive one, in terms of the essays. I spent more than 18 hours writing the essays! I will now wait a couple of days to review them, to refresh my mind.

I feel much better writing the MIT essays, which reflects my past performance. Also, they are not asking to suck up to the school, as most of the others are.
Furthermore, I am happy I could meet the word limits in all of the essays! I still have to cut some words off from the cover letter.

Now I will start bugging my recommenders, because I think they haven't written anything yet!

MIT essays!

MIT's essays are very different from the other schools'!
As reviewers say, they look for your demonstrated leadership and all that MBA stuff in the past. Nothing about goals nor plans.
I went to an information session where the presenter said "we don't ask you for your goals, because we don't believe you!". Although it was a joke, it was kind of scary! However, I believe it is a correct approach. Although I would like a more direct way to demonstrate my fit and genuine interest in MIT Sloan.

If you would like to read some tips on MIT essays, take a look at this links:

• http://accepted.mbablogs.businessweek.com/archive/2009/06/10/rl04odaopt6c
• http://www.stacyblackman.com/2009/09/01/tuesday-tips-mit-sloan-essay-tips-2/
• http://www.vibranture.com/essay/sloan-mit-mba-essay-writing.htm
• http://www.mbamission.com/blog/2009/06/28/massachusetts-institute-of-technology-sloan-essay-analysis-2009-2010/
• http://mbagameplan.wordpress.com/category/mit/

Hope they help!

Humor - Essays

To my second post, I am publishing this really funny admissions essays I found here: http://paloaltoforawhile.blogspot.com/2009/05/real-admissions-essays.html

The are the real thing!

Here it goes:

Harvard: Of which Fortune 1000 company are you going to become the CEO and why would you pick that company?

Wharton: Of which Fortune 1000 company are you going to become the CFO and why would you pick that company?

MIT: Draw an ASCII picture of your favorite Lord of the Rings character and describe three lessons that today's business leaders can learn from Lord Of The Rings.

Stanford: Why? (100,000 words recommended)

Chicago Booth: Provide a detailed statistical analysis of why Chicago-Booth is #1 in BWeek and never higher than #3 in USNews. Do the math in your head.

NYU: How badly do you need a vacation from your ibanking job, and what makes you think you will be able to get back into ibanking upon graduation?

Yale SOM: Which nonprofit organization do you plan to run, and what about running a nonprofit makes you feel important?

Columbia: In your opinion, what is the best way to sabotage the Whartonian CFO of your company and become CFO?

UC Berkeley Haas: What makes a hippie like you think you can succeed in business? Use the words 'sustainable' and 'green' at least twice in your response.

Cornell Johnson: Describe how awesome being an Ivy Leaguer would make you feel.

UVA Darden: How badly do you want your ass to be kicked by our professors on a scale of 9 to 10?

Notre Dame: Describe how awesome Irish Football is, and list ten ways we can make our MBA program as well-known as our NFL training program.

London Business School: Answer NYU's essay and use the find/replace function to replace all 'NYU' with 'LBS', 'New York' with 'London' and 'program' with 'programme'.

Wash U Olin: How early are you willing to wake up to serve coffee to our medical students?

UNC Kenan-Flagler: See Notre Dame but replace Irish Football with Tar Heel basketball, and NFL with NBA.

U of Phx (pick 2 of 4): When your boss finds out you have enrolled here, how loudly will he/she laugh? Have you ever wasted a lot of money on something useless before? Would you be willing to appear on a billboard or would you rather keep your enrollment a secret? What is 5+8?

Tuck: Do you remember summer camp? How amazing was that!?!? Don't you wish you could go to camp for 21 months? Attach a letter you wrote to your parents in fifth grade summer camp explaining how awesome it was.

UMich Ross: What was the craziest thing you did while tailgating during undergrad, and are you prepared to tailgate like a pro again? In your essay, try to include the words moonshine, goat, and anus.

Kellogg: Explain why you think good quantitative skills are not required in business and discuss the importance of teamwork in situations in which no one is skilled enough to do the job by himself.

UCLA Anderson: Have you seen that show "The Hills?" Isn't it amazing? Discuss your strategies for getting into clubs to party with the cast of "The Hills" so you can feel important.

Duke Fuqua: What are your short-term and long-term career goals? Begin your essay with the sentence, "My career goal is to provide investment and business advice to the much more successful graduates of the Duke Law and Medical Schools."

Carnegie Mellon Tepper: Draw an ASCII picture of your favorite MIT student and list three things that business leaders can learn from MIT.

INSEAD: List the number of languages in which you are fluent, and explain how knowing a bunch of languages and studying in one of the world's slowest economies for ten months will make you an effective business leader.

CEIBS: Would you rather be upper middle class in the US, or rich in China? Pleeeeeeeease say rich in China!