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LBS MBA Unique Essay: Social Conciousness Influencing Career Choices

LBS MBA Essay 2: What Makes you Unique (200 Words)

Every competent professional targeting top schools, including LBS, has committed to excellence in their profession. That doesn’t make an applicant unique. The top 1-5% performance will help them gain attention, but to highlight uniqueness, an applicant should lean into their belief and the passion that emanates from the belief.

Case Study: Agri Business (Food as a Right)

An applicant who grew up in a farming community, where principles of shared economic prosperity were lived realities, the commitment to equitable growth was not a narrative built for MBA essays. She founded a non-profit to mitigate food insecurity, all arising from cultures she grew up around and a firm belief that 'Food' was a communal right and not just a commodity at the mercy of weather and market forces.

She pivoted from her non-profit to a policy role where she could solve the problem at a level above the operational lens.  Now her belief in equitable access to food has set a new ambition - to influence IMPACT investment in African Agri Business.

The most believable essays include culture and growing up in a community as influences on the applicant’s strong beliefs.

Read F1GMAT’s LBS MBA Essay Guide, where Atul Jose, the Author and Founding Consultant of F1GMAT's essay guides demonstrates how to write the uniqueness essay, with resourcefulness as a theme.

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LBS MBA Essay Guide

 

Question 1 (500 words): What are your post-MBA goals and how will your prior experience and the London Business School program contribute towards these?

Question 2. (200 words): What makes you unique?

Question 3 (500 words): (This question is optional) Is there any other information you believe the Admissions Committee should know about you and your application to London Business School?

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About the Author 

Atul Jose

I am Atul Jose, Founding Consultant of F1GMAT, an MBA admissions consultancy that has worked with applicants since 2009.

 

For the past 15 years I have edited the application files of admits to the M7 programs: Harvard Business School, Stanford Graduate School of Business, the Wharton School, MIT Sloan, Chicago Booth, Kellogg School of Management, and Columbia Business School, together with admits to Berkeley Haas, Yale School of Management, NYU Stern, Michigan Ross, Duke Fuqua, Darden, Tuck, IMD, London Business School, INSEAD, SDA Bocconi, IESE Business School, HEC Paris, McCombs, and Tepper, plus other programs inside the global top 30.

 

My work covers the full MBA application deliverable: career planning and profile evaluation, application essay editing, recommendation letter editing, mock interviews and interview preparation, scholarship and fellowship essay editing, and cover letter editing for funding applications. Full bio with credentials and admit history is here.

 

I am the author of the Winning MBA Essay Guide, the best-selling essay guide covering M7 MBA programs. I have written and updated the guide annually since 2013, which makes the 2026 edition the thirteenth.

 

The reason I still write and edit essays every cycle: a good MBA essay carries a real applicant's voice. Writing essays for F1GMAT's Books and Editing essays weekly is how I stay calibrated to what current admissions committees respond to.

 

Contact me for school selection, career planning, essay strategy, narrative development, essay editing, interview preparation, scholarship essay editing, or guidance documents for recommendation letters.