Owen Vanderbilt Essays 2011-2012

Your essays give us great insight into your personality and your other unique qualities. While business school is a time for exploration, we do expect you to have a strong sense about why you want an MBA and what you hope to do once you graduate. Applying to business school is an introspective process and we want to make sure you have a good sense for what you want from a program, where you hope it will lead you and why Owen is well suited to help you attain your goals. Please limit your essays to 500 words.

Owen Vanderbilt Essay 1. Explain your short-term and long-term career plans as specifically as possible. When combined with your studies at Owen, how will your background, previous experiences, interests and personal attributes enable you to pursue these goals successfully?  (500 words maximum)

Owen Vanderbilt Essay 2. In what ways would you impact Owen as a student and as an alumnus/alumna? How would you create change within the Owen community? (Not required for Accelerator, MMHC and EMBA applicants)  (500 words maximum)

Owen Vanderbilt Optional/Reapplicant Essay 1. You are strongly encouraged to provide an additional statement to clarify and explain any of the following: gaps of more than three months in full-time employment, lack of recommendation from your current or most recent supervisor, limited full-time work experience (ignore if you are a recent undergraduate), poor academic performance, weak test scores, academic misconduct, violations of the law, or anything else you think is important for the Admissions Committee to know about you that is not already addressed elsewhere in your application. Applicants reactivating a previous application submitted within the last two years should provide their additional statement here.

Owen Vanderbilt Optional Essay 2. Please provide any additional information you would like for us to consider that would strengthen your application.

Cross-Cultural Experience Essay. Describe any significant periods of time you have spent living, working, studying or traveling outside of your home country (location, purpose/description, starting and ending dates). (1200 characters)