Why you should incorporate "The Struggle" in your MBA Application Essays

When the word count goes down, the natural approach is to make the narrative more “resume like.” This is far from the right approach. Storytelling is more relevant now than ever. When AdCom read 1000s of “short resume summary” with essays, your ability to stand out with an interesting narrative will matter. For those readers who are not familiar with our storytelling approach, click here and read our previous articles about storytelling. In this article, we will cover the importance of conveying struggle in the essay.

Learning from the Struggle

We as humans are interested in the “Struggle.” With hundreds of scenarios, our minds focus on struggles from which we can learn about a person, a situation, or a virtue. That is how humans have survived over the past 200,000 years. The paleolithic cave paintings suggest human’s need to communicate the struggle, which during the Aurignacian period was mostly about hunting. Our ability to learn from other people’s struggles keep us hooked to a story or a movie.

Earning Attention

The most beautifully written words in an essay will fail to earn AdCom’s attention if the words don’t ....
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