• Leadership-Focused Essay: What experiences have shaped who you are, how you invest in others, and what kind of leader you want to become? (up to 250 words)
Background Information: The applicant, ambivalent to the mental health epidemic, facilitates one of the largest mental health awareness campaigns after tragedy hits home.
Leadership Traits: Openness, Communication
• Leadership-Focused Essay: What experiences have shaped how you invest in others and how you lead? (up to 250 words)
Background Information: The applicant's lack of access to digital infrastructure growing up, inspires him to lead a rural infrastructure project in South Africa.
• Leadership-Focused Essay: What experiences have shaped how you invest in others and how you lead? (up to 250 words)
Background Information: Through the changing economic and family dynamics of her father's mining business, the applicant finds her voice in a unique way, initially to find an audience for her underappreciated voice, and later as one of the youngest subject-matter experts in mining and commodities.
Leadership Traits: Resilience, Authenticity
• Leadership-Focused Essay: What experiences have shaped how you invest in others and how you lead? (up to 250 words)
Background Information: An applicant shares the burden of legacy as the son of an entrepreneur and how he has accumulated his father's leadership principles in his venture.
Leadership Traits: Customer-Centric, Authenticity
• Leadership-Focused Essay: What experiences have shaped how you invest in others and how you lead? (up to 250 words)
Background Information: From the privileges of a cocooned life, the applicant is displaced from Syria and forced to restart her life in the US.
Leadership Traits: Resilience
• Leadership-Focused Essay: What experiences have shaped how you invest in others and how you lead? (up to 250 words)
Background Information: The applicant navigates the horrors of war and finds his humanity by guiding underprivileged children build life and leadership skills.
Leadership Traits: Mentoring, Authenticity
Growth-Oriented Essay: Curiosity can be seen in many ways. Please share an example of how you have demonstrated curiosity and how that has influenced your growth. (up to 250 words)
Background Information: During a mission, an applicant is inspired by a doctor to find meaning outside combat.
Curiosity: Career Choice
Chicago Booth MBA Visual Essay Prompt: The photos below represent some of the values described above that we uphold at Chicago Booth. Select one and share how it resonates with one of your own values. (250-word minimum)
In this breakdown of the Chicago Booth MBA Visual Essay, I cover:
• Leadership-Focused Essay: What experiences have shaped how you invest in others and how you lead? (up to 250 words)
Background Information: The applicant - a second-generation Asian American, reaffirms the values of fiscal conservatism, building relationships, and empowering the local community through a crisis.
Growth-Oriented Essay: Curiosity can be seen in many ways. Please share an example of how you have demonstrated curiosity and how that has influenced your growth. (up to 250 words)
Background Information: The applicant, an education major, recognizes that 70% of all students in Kenya don’t have a computer. The growth narrative is around the curiosity to overcome scarcity, which drives him to pivot from one solution to another.
Curiosity: Behavior