Kellogg Essay 1

A. Briefly assess your career progress to date. Elaborate on your future career plans and your motivation for pursuing a graduate degree at the Kellogg School. (One to two pages double-spaced)

Kellogg Essay 1 Tips

Kellogg wants you to assess and evaluate your career progress in the context of your MBA application. This essay should also address the relevance of a Kellogg MBA to your future career goals. As usual in an MBA "goals essay", if you can establish a logical and credible link between your past, present and future, this Kellogg essay almost writes itself. If you can add a dash of passion as well, you have the recipe for a great essay. Blending key non-career aspects that are relevant to your story will only add to the strength of your application. "Why Kellogg?" and not any other business school needs to be explicitly addressed here.

Kellogg Essay 2

Each of our applicants is unique. Describe how your background, values, academics, activities and/or leadership skills will enhance the experience of other Kellogg students. (One to two pages double-spaced)

Kellogg Essay 2 Tips

Each MBA applicant is unique. But every admissions committee hungrily awaits candidates who can actually display that uniqueness in their essays. All MBA essay packages are basically about selling YOU: this Kellogg essay is an explicit expression of that. What is your USP (Unique Selling Proposition), what makes you different, why should Kellogg bother talking to you when there are hundreds of other applicants with a comparable GMAT score or work experience or whatever competing with you?

To get info for this Kellogg application essay you should not mind knocking at many doors. Your friends, colleagues and family are excellent sources for giving you obvious answers which you might have overlooked. But the best source is always going to be the one you see in the mirror. Ask this person about you at work, play and studies to uncover traits, situations, values, distinctions, hobbies, passions and skills that set you apart. In addition to integrating this Kellogg essay with the ones that follow, all you have to do (!) is to portray a convincing picture of a person who can add definite value to Kellogg and the Kellogg student community.

Kellogg Essay 3

Describe your key leadership experiences and evaluate what leadership areas you hope to develop through your MBA experience. (One to two pages double-spaced)

Kellogg Essay 3 Tips

This essay question from last year "How have your past and current leadership experiences prepared you for Kellogg? What leadership areas are you hoping to develop through your MBA experience?" will help you understand the Kellogg Essay 3 premise much better.

Leadership is the most focused-on single trait that almost all Business Schools look for: Kellogg is no exception. Let us give the good people at Northwestern University a strong focused picture of your leadership profile. To begin, assemble all your most significant leadership experiences till date and try to locate a progressive development in your leadership skills or style. A focus on 2-3 examples should suffice to get the first part of the essay done.

What remains now is to find the first Kellogg link in this essay; that is, which aspects of your leadership (or other qualities/skills gained through leadership) do you feel find a great fit with Kellogg. What leadership areas are you hoping to develop through your MBA experience at Kellogg? Simply match the areas of special focus that Kellogg delivers in aiding leadership development with your own leadership traits/focus-areas that you find improvable.

Kellogg Essay 4 Choose two of the following three essays?(Two paragraphs each)

Kellogg Essay 4 A

Describe a time when you had to motivate a reluctant individual or group.

Kellogg Essay 4 A Tips

Strong persuasive communication abilities. Diplomatic interpersonal skills. Strength of character. Reasoning power.

These are just some of the qualities that you can base this essay on.

For selecting the particular situation for the essay, look back to identify professional or personal circumstances in which you found yourself trying to win over an unenthusiastic or hesitant group/individual.

Though your essay does not have to be a fairy tale, a cheerful conclusion to the story would be that everybody agrees with you, you are hailed as a savior of humanity and all people live happily ever after!

Kellogg Essay 4 B

I wish the Admissions Committee had asked me?

Kellogg Essay 4 B Tips

Mouth watering stuff! Write on ANYTHING you want to tell the Kellogg admissions committee. Preferably use this essay to traverse an area in your personality or life that has not been covered in the other essays.

Kellogg Essay 4 C

What do others admire about you?

Kellogg Essay 4 C Tips

Now you have a legitimate defense when you bug your friends, peers, spouse for insights to write all those overlong MBA essays.

Shamelessly paraphrase the simple question "What do you admire about me?" and ask the same to your friends, colleagues, peers, spouse and and family members. Use the information thus gained to sort out the best qualities in you. Alternately you could pinpoint a single quality that sets you apart. Though we do not have space for rambling stories one or two succinct anecdotes would help the cause.

Beware of repeating information included in the Kellogg essay 2.

Kellogg Essay 4 D

Since your previous application, what are the steps you have taken to strengthen your candidacy? Question 4F must be answered by all re-applicants as one of the required two questions.

Kellogg Essay 4 D Tips

They can't be clearer than that. It would make a great difference if you have any objective or subjective feedback from Kellogg about your last application (though I doubt it). Seek out specific areas of critical weaknesses in your last Kellogg application and illustrate how they have been neutralized. Specific achievements - academic, professional or personal - that have occurred after your last Kellogg application should also find a place here.

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