There are four required essays for McCombs School of Business Full-time MBA program.
1) Describe how your professional and personal experiences have led you to pursue an MBA at this time. Please share with us your short and long term goals and why the Texas MBA at McCombs is the program best positioned to help you achieve them.
Word Limit: 800 words
2) In your life to date, please tell us about an instance when you felt that you had the most positive impact and why you believe it to be significant?
Word Limit: 200 words
3) How do you intend to positively impact the MBA community while you are an MBA student at McCombs?
Word Limit: 200 words
4) After graduation from business school, what kind of positive impact would you like to have?
Word Limit: 200 words
The optional Essay for the MBA program is
1) Please provide any additional information to the admissions committee that you believe is important and/or will address any areas of concern that will be beneficial to the committee in considering your application. (For example, if your standardized test scores are low or if you have not had coursework in core business subjects (i.e. calculus, microeconomics, statistics, financial accounting), please tell us how you plan to prepare yourself for the quantitative rigor of the MBA curriculum.)
Word Limit: 200 words