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Accountant with a Unique Patent: MIT Sloan MBA Introduce Yourself Video Essay

Q) MIT Sloan MBA Video Essay: Introduce yourself to your future classmates. Here’s your chance to put a face with a name, let your personality shine through, be conversational, be yourself. We can’t wait to meet you! (60 seconds)

Background Information: A Chartered Account fascinated with AI automation mimics his professional experience to help low-income households balance their economic, physical, and psychological well-being.

Theme: Innovation, Entrepreneurial Thinking

Theme (Explained): Entrepreneurial thinking and innovation also mean transferring the knowledge acquired from one function to another. 

Profile: Accountant

Industry: Technology, Non-Profit

MBA Video Essay Script Strategy: Fascinated with what cleverly designed processes and technology could do, the applicant translated the knowledge to his start-up – a venture that measures the progress of low-income households’ well-being - economically, physically, and psychologically. 

MIT Sloan’s Entrepreneurship track would help the applicant scale the idea to new markets and, during the process, build allies to his vision – “equitable access to information.”

Video statements from entrepreneurial applicants should primarily focus on their passion for the venture they plan to scale or start at MIT. 

Opener: Starting with the origin of the passion for the venture is the best way to demonstrate motivation.  

Sample MIT Sloan MBA Video Statement - Accounting Professional with a unique patent (132 Words)

Hello MIT Sloan friends, 

I come from a traditional chartered accounting background and entered the world of entrepreneurship through one idea – Alexa for Villages. 

My engagement to automate <company’s> accounting practices ..

Download F1GMAT's MIT Sloan MBA Essay Guide for the Complete Video Statement, where the applicant shares how his accidental entry to entrepreneurship was triggered by his experience integrating AI in the accounting practice

MIT Sloan MBA Essay Guide

Cover Letter Question: Please submit a cover letter seeking a place in the MIT Sloan MBA program. Your letter should conform to standard business correspondence, include one or more professional examples that illustrate why you meet the desired criteria above, and be addressed to the Admissions Committee (300 words or fewer, excluding address and salutation).

Short Answer Question: How has the world you come from shaped who you are today? For example, your family, culture, community, all help to shape aspects of your identity. Please use this opportunity if you would like to share more about your background. (250 words or less.)

Video Questions

Question 1: Introduce yourself to your future classmates. Here’s your chance to put a face with a name, let your personality shine through, be conversational, be yourself. We can’t wait to meet you!

Question 2: All MBA applicants will be prompted to respond to a randomly generated, open-ended question. The question is designed to help us get to know you better; to see how you express yourself and to assess fit with the MIT Sloan culture. It does not require prior preparation.

Video Question 2 is part of your required application materials and will appear as a page within the application, once the other parts of your application are completed. Applicants are given 10 seconds to prepare for a 60-second response.

The following are examples of questions that may be asked in the Video Question 2:
•    What achievement are you most proud of and why?
•    Tell us about a time a classmate or colleague wasn’t contributing to a group project. What did you do?

Download F1GMAT's MIT Sloan MBA Essay Guide

 

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