Booth’s MBA Application Essay for 2017-18 has maintained the same format as last year with a pictorial series of 6 moments as the prompt.
If you pay close attention, the admission team is asking – what aspect of Chicago Booth MBA experience do you like the most
#1. Modern Art
#2. Teamwork and Individual Ambition
#3. Adventure
#4. Diversity
#5. Classroom Experience
#6. Harper Centre
Booth Entrepreneurship has the largest number of participants compared to the 13 other concentrations offered in the full-time MBA program. The Entrepreneurial finance and private equity course provide financing goals from the Entrepreneur and the Venture Capitalist’s point of view.
NVC - Booth MBA Essay Moment
Q1. What are your post-MBA plans and how will your past experience and the London Business School programme contribute? (500 words)
In our LBS MBA Essay Guide, we have shown how applicants looking to get into Finance should map their pre-MBA experience with their post-MBA goals. However, the essay also asks about the ‘specific aspect’ of the London Business School MBA program. The admission team expects you to quote the curriculum structure. To make it easier for you, we have analyzed the curriculum. Select the courses according to your post-MBA goals.
LBA MBA Curriculum Analysis
Q) The following is a collection of shared Booth moments.
Choose the moment that best resonates with you and tell us why.
Booth’s MBA Application Essay for 2016-17 has maintained the same format as last year with a pictorial series of 10 moments as the prompt.
If you pay close attention, the admission team is asking – what aspect of Chicago Booth MBA experience do you like the most
1.New Venture Challenge
2. Travel & Experience International Culture
3. LEAD (Leadership Effectiveness and Development)
4. Harper Center
5. Esteemed Professors
6. Global Social Impact Practicum
7. Booth Alumni
8. Booth MBA Entrepreneurs
9. Distinguished Speaker Series
10. Student Groups
Awareness about your career and personal growth is what the school is measuring with the essay, but there are some basic guidelines that you should adhere to, before shortlisting your proudest achievement. Since Essay 3 asks about your extra-curricular activities, use this essay only to mention your professional accomplishment.
A recent study by the Financial Times shows that Booth stands at #4 in the world when it comes to the most Alumni as CEOs in Fortune 500 companies, behind Stanford(8), Insead(9) and Harvard (28). If you look at the Alumni who have climbed the CEO position in small and mid-sized Business, the number of Booth MBA CEOs is at 5,400, with their contribution distributed in companies as diverse as JPMorgan, Pfizer, Gillette, and Suzuki.
Booth Alumni has one of the widest geographical reaches with 49,000 alumni spread across 115 countries. Booth Alumni also found their mark in Govt. – Former Governor of New Jersey, Secretary of Financial Services and the Treasury for Hong Kong, City Administrative Officers and other esteemed public service officers around the world.
If you want specific examples of what makes Booth faculty different from other school faculties, who are mostly academicians with limited tenure in high profile roles, cite the examples of Raghuram Rajan, Luigi Zingales, Richard Thaler and Nicholas Epley.
The new model – The Big Five, was started with the work of D. W. Fiske (1949), later developed by researchers Norman (1967), Smith (1967), Goldberg (1981), and McCrae & Costa (1987). We believe ‘The Big Five Model’ is much more useful in understanding yourself, and accurately capturing your unique personality in Essay A.
Essay 3: CBS Matters, a key element of the School’s culture, allows the people in your Cluster to learn more about you on a personal level. What will your Clustermates be pleasantly surprised to learn about you? (100-250 words)
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