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MIT MBA Essay Guide

MIT Sloan School of Management

MIT Sloan's cover letter is the most unconventional MBA application question. Unlike essays where you must weave in a few stories, a cover letter format requires capturing the most important milestones in just 300 words. That too - in a formal tone.

To help you navigate the unusual question, F1GMAT's MIT Sloan MBA Essay Guide includes six cover letters:

  • Sample Cover Letter – Technology to Consulting (284 Words)
  • Sample Cover Letter – Healthcare Entrepreneurship (297 Words)  
  • Sample Cover Letter – Consulting to Technology (298 Words)  
  • Sample Cover Letter – Wealth Management to FinTech (299 Words)
  • Sample Cover Letter – Manufacturing to Consulting (Retail) (299 Words)  
  • Sample Cover Letter – Strategy to Consulting (297 Words)  

On completing the application, you are required to introduce yourself with a 1-minute video with just one take. To help you script the answers, we have included three sample scripts.

  • Sample Video Statement – Technology Consultant with the ambition to transform Education (161 Words)
  • Sample Video Statement - Accounting Professional with a unique patent (142 Words)   
  • Sample Video Statement – Oil & Gas Professional with a passion for Flying and Exploration(152 Words)   

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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?

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