Essay: Why Stanford?

Profile: Miss. A 

Essay: Why Stanford?

Profile: Mr. KP

Profile (Background): Mr. KP has experience at NASA as part of the crew that designed a mission to find life on other planets. However, as a coastline resident, his real passion is erosion science and finding technological innovations that could create sustainable barriers for global flooding events.

Essay: Why Stanford?

Profile: Miss. J 

Profile (Background): Miss J came from a background in investment banking and corporate roles before venturing into entrepreneurship. She founded a consumer food brand that bridges cultural flavors with modern health trends, motivated by her heritage and a desire to introduce authentic Asian tastes to mainstream markets. 

LBS MBA Essay: What makes you unique? (200 words)

Background Information: An entrepreneurial applicant narrates the circumstances that led to his education without any structure. 

The confidence to learn anything and tackle problems became a behavior that led him to entrepreneurship. 

Theme: Entrepreneurship, Resilience

Theme (Explained): Self-learning and Resilience as a prerequisite to entrepreneurship is not a theme that many applicants cover. 

LBS MBA Essay: What makes you unique? (200 words)

Background Information: The applicant, a Uruguay native who overcame poverty, reflects on the struggle of a single-parent household, violence in the neighborhood, and the IMPACT, mentorship had in orienting himself towards Math and soccer. 

The experience of mentorship as an intervention for low-income communities motivated him to start a non-profit for STEM Education. 

Theme: Education, STEM, Mentorship, Inequality

MIT Sloan MBA Cover Letter Prompt >>

Growth-Oriented Essay: Curiosity can be seen in many ways. Please share an example of how you have demonstrated curiosity and how that has influenced your growth. (up to 250 words)

Background Information: The applicant, an Entrepreneur from India, shares his American dream by reflecting on his entrepreneurial experiences in India and contrasting them with the support offered by the American VC ecosystem.

Curiosity: Culture

Growth-Oriented Essay: Curiosity can be seen in many ways. Please share an example of how you have demonstrated curiosity and how that has influenced your growth. (up to 250 words)

Background Information: The applicant captures a vulnerable moment of a beneficiary to compare his journey and shares a curiosity and growth exploration where cryptocurrency became a tool for good.

Curiosity: Funding

Chicago Booth MBA Essay 1# How will the Booth MBA help you achieve your immediate and long-term post-MBA career goals? (250-word minimum)

Profile: Mr. A

Profile (Background): An applicant who innovated with low-cost energy fuel cells wants to reinvent traditional entrepreneurship models

Essay Approach: “Why Chicago Booth MBA?”

Growth-Oriented Essay: Curiosity can be seen in many ways. Please share an example of how you have demonstrated curiosity and how that has influenced your growth. (up to 250 words)

Background Information: The applicant, a Machine Learning (ML) entrepreneur specializing in healthcare diagnostics, shares how his curiosity to learn other ML algorithms’ evolution in diagnosing Alzheimer’s, cancer, and heart disease transformed his platform into a global community. 

Curiosity: Machine Learning

Growth-Oriented Essay: Curiosity can be seen in many ways. Please share an example of how you have demonstrated curiosity and how that has influenced your growth. (up to 250 words)

Background Information: The applicant, an education major, recognizes that 70% of all students in Kenya don’t have a computer. The growth narrative is around the curiosity to overcome scarcity, which drives him to pivot from one solution to another. 

Curiosity: Behavior

Kellogg MBA Essay One: Intentionality is a key aspect of what makes our graduates successful Kellogg leaders. Help us understand your journey by articulating your motivations for pursuing an MBA, the specific goals you aim to achieve, and why you believe now is the right moment. Moreover, share why you feel Kellogg is best suited to serve as a catalyst for your career aspirations and what you will contribute to our community of lifelong learners during your time here. 

Background Information: An LGBTQ minority entrepreneur after failing to raise funds for his apparel business addresses implicit biases in the VC community.

Theme: Leadership, Bias, Inclusion

Theme (Explained): Biases often involve narratives around a person or a culture in an organization, but a larger reason – economic incentives that propagate the biases is never addressed. 

Profile: Entrepreneur

Industry: Fashion

Tuck MBA Essay: Tell us who you are. How have your values and experiences shaped your identity and character? How will your background contribute to the diverse Tuck culture and community?

Background Information: An entrepreneur musician shares the power of music in improving the mood of distressed children, her mentorship, and the agency she started to help upcoming artists. 

Theme: Music, Education, Job Security

NYU Stern MBA Essay: Change: _________ it (350 word maximum, double-spaced, 12-point font)

In today’s global business environment, the only constant is change. Using NYU Stern’s brand call to action, we want to know how you view change. Change: _____ it. Fill in the blank with a word of your choice. Why does this word resonate with you? How will you embrace your own personal tagline while at Stern? Examples:

NYU Stern MBA Essay 1: Change: _________ it (350 word maximum, double-spaced, 12-point font)

In today’s global business environment, the only constant is change. Using NYU Stern’s brand call to action, we want to know how you view change. Change: _____ it. Fill in the blank with a word of your choice. Why does this word resonate with you? How will you embrace your own personal tagline while at Stern? Examples:

NYU Stern MBA Essay 1: Change: _________ it (350 word maximum, double-spaced, 12-point font)

In today’s global business environment, the only constant is change. Using NYU Stern’s brand call to action, we want to know how you view change. Change: _____ it. Fill in the blank with a word of your choice. Why does this word resonate with you? How will you embrace your own personal tagline while at Stern? Examples:

NYU Stern MBA Essay 1: Change: _________ it (350 word maximum, double-spaced, 12-point font)

In today’s global business environment, the only constant is change. Using NYU Stern’s brand call to action, we want to know how you view change. Change: _____ it. Fill in the blank with a word of your choice. Why does this word resonate with you? How will you embrace your own personal tagline while at Stern? Examples:

Stanford GSB MBA Essay A: What matters most to you, and why? (650 Words)

Background Information: The applicant - a Zimbabwe native, narrates the struggle to raise funds for his undergraduate degree at MIT.  The hyperinflation in Zimbabwe and his innovation with cryptocurrency helped address the biggest challenge that citizens faced – access to cash.

Theme: Freedom

Stanford GSB MBA Essay A: What matters most to you, and why? (650 Words)

Background Information: The applicant’s experience as an insider to his father’s entrepreneurial journey is the hook that sets the narrative to a tragic event. The tragedy set in motion a philosophy of life that was helpful in connecting with an Entrepreneur in Ghana 

Theme: Listening

Stanford GSB MBA Essay A: What matters most to you, and why? (650 Words)

Stanford GSB MBA Essay A: What matters most to you, and why? (650 Words)

Background Information: The applicant - a Uruguay native who overcame poverty, reflects on the struggle of a single-parent household, violence in the neighborhood, and the IMPACT mentorship had in orienting himself towards Math and soccer. The experience of mentorship as an intervention for low-income communities motivated him to start a non-profit for STEM Education. 

Stanford GSB MBA Essay A: What matters most to you, and why? (650 Words)

Growth-Oriented Essay: Curiosity can be seen in many ways. Please share an example of how you have demonstrated curiosity and how that has influenced your growth. (up to 250 words)

Background Information: The applicant, a beneficiary of the foster home system, captures the sacrifice his adopted grandparents made to save him from a path of addiction. Paying it back to the community through early intervention is the curiosity and growth narrative.

Curiosity: Gaming