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Sample Ross MBA Essay: Want People to Know (Life Philosophy)

The circumstances of your childhood, the influences of your role models, the setbacks, and the successes help you develop a life philosophy that is shareable with the admission team. Instead of sharing an outlook that has been written or shared to death – “Persistence,” “Hard work,” or “Global outlook,” choose an event that reaffirmed a unique value in you.

In this Entrepreneurial example, the applicant cites how his start-up quickly scaled to a $20-million enterprise. The highs were met with setbacks when the co-founder cheated him out of his share, and the politics of the board made the applicant a pariah in his own company. Since we have only 100 words – a sentence capturing the setback is enough to establish the backdrop for the life philosophy.

Sample Ross MBA Essay: Life Philosophy through the prism of an Entrepreneurial failure (94 Words)

I want people to know that I started a neighborhood e-waste collection platform and scaled it to a $20-million business in just two years. Unfortunately, the cliched story of co-founders making side-deals and the politics ...

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