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Sample Stanford MBA Positive IMPACT Optional Essay (Analytics)

Sample: Stanford MBA Positive IMPACT Optional Essay (Introduced Analytics for monitoring performance)(200 Words)

Optional Question: Think about times you’ve created a positive impact, whether in professional, extracurricular, academic, or other settings. What was your impact? What made it significant to you or to others? (600 Words) (200 words – each example)

When I volunteered to teach programming and AI to children from low-income households, the non-profit was dealing with another challenge. The funding earmarked for on-ground development was getting outspent at an unsustainable rate.

Sensing an opportunity to tweak the system, I led the technological overhaul of their analytics. The non-profit used primitive reports to..

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

Essay B: Why Stanford? (350 Words)

Optional Question: Think about times you’ve created a positive impact, whether in professional, extracurricular, academic, or other settings. What was your impact? What made it significant to you or to others? (600 Words) (200 words – each example)

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