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: The applicant, an Oil & Gas Engineer and the first female to earn the title of Project Manager in the shortest time for her pioneering remote operations, credits her checklist mindset for her success.

Background Information: A field engineer in the oil and gas industry who transitioned to renewable wants to help businesses adopt sustainability practices to the climate-change realities we are likely to see in 2030.

Theme: Adaptability, Climate Change, Sustainability

Theme (Explained): Working towards holistic systems and adapting to the realities of climate change is a theme not many applicants are narrating. 

Essay: Why Stanford?

Profile: Miss SK

Profile (Background): Miss. SK has strong leadership experience managing workers from 85 nationalities in the rig. As the only engineer to earn a triple promotion in 2 years, she also integrated a sustainable water infrastructure in a complex rig layout. 

Additionally, her status as one of four women engineers in the team makes her story even more impressive.

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 Remote Engineer in the Oil and Gas industry, reflects on a value that has helped her learn from the best regardless of her geographical limitations.

Curiosity: Peers

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

Profile: Miss. A 

Profile (Background): A Reservoir Engineer in the Oil and Gas industry wants to transition into a consulting role. 

Target Industry: Energy

Target Function: Consulting

Target Geography: United States 

Background Information: An Oil & Gas Remote Engineer who had a phenomenal growth from a junior engineer to a remote engineer responsible for complex drilling projects and automating the entire operations, is assigned the role to develop strategies to retain the women workforce and develop a comprehensive plan to create an inclusive environment. 

Theme: Understanding Identity and Perspective-Taking, Creating an Inclusive Environment    

Berkeley Haas MBA What Makes you feel Alive Essay Example: Innovation in Education with Satellite Technology

What makes you feel alive might be a vision that you have about a future – a future where education is affordable and accessible, renewable energy is mainstream, polluting industries operate outside the earth, or any sci-fi-themed narratives that benefits a large population.

Post-MBA Goal (Short-term): Accounting with diverse M&A and Due Diligence experience to IMPACT investing

Post-MBA Goal (Long-term): Start a fund with two focus areas - clean energy, and education

Knowledge Gap: IMPACT investing, Climate, and Venture capital

Career Pathways: Venture Capital, Climate