FOR FUN: Sample MBA Essay Questions

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SAMPLE MBA APPLICATION QUESTIONS:

Harvard: Of which Fortune 1000 company are you going to become the

CEO and why would you pick that company?

Wharton: Of which Fortune 1000 company are you going to become the CFO

and why would you pick that company?

MIT: Draw an ASCII picture of your favorite Lord of the Rings

character and describe three lessons that today's business leaders can

learn from Lord Of The Rings.

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Duke Fuqua: What are your short-term and long-term career goals? Begin

your essay with the sentence, "My career goal is to provide investment

and business advice to the much more successful graduates of the Duke

Law and Medical Schools."

Carnegie Mellon Tepper: Draw an ASCII picture of your favorite MIT

student and list three things that business leaders can learn from

MIT.

INSEAD: List the number of languages in which you are fluent, and

explain how knowing a bunch of languages and studying in one of the

world's slowest economies for ten months will make you an effective

business leader.

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UMich Ross: What was the craziest thing you did while tailgating

during undergrad, and are you prepared to tailgate like a pro again?

In your essay, try to include the words moonshine and goat.

Kellogg: Explain why you think good quantitative skills are not

required in business and discuss the importance of teamwork in

situations in which no one is skilled enough to do the job by himself.

UCLA Anderson: Have you seen that show "The Hills?" Isn't it amazing?

Discuss your strategies for getting into clubs to party with the cast

of "The Hills" so you can feel important.

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Wash U Olin: How early are you willing to wake up to serve coffee to

our medical students?

UNC Kenan-Flagler: See Notre Dame but replace Irish Football with Tar

Heel basketball, and NFL with NBA.

U of Phx (pick 2 of 4): When your boss finds out you have enrolled

here, how loudly will he/she laugh? Have you ever wasted a lot of

money on something useless before? Would you be willing to appear on a

billboard or would you rather keep your enrollment a secret? What is

5+8?

Tuck: Do you remember summer camp? How amazing was that!?!? Don't you

wish you could go to camp for 21 months? Attach a letter you wrote to

your parents in fifth grade summer camp explaining how awesome it was.

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UC Berkeley Haas: What makes a hippie like you think you can succeed

in business? Use the words 'sustainable' and 'green' at least twice in

your response.

Cornell Johnson: Describe how awesome being an Ivy Leaguer would make you feel.

UVA Darden: How badly do you want your ass to be kicked by our

professors on a scale of 9 to 10?

Notre Dame: Describe how awesome Irish Football is, and list ten ways

we can make our MBA program as well-known as our NFL training program.

London Business School: Answer NYU's essay and use the find/replace

function to replace all 'NYU' with 'LBS', 'New York' with 'London' and

'program' with 'programme'.

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Stanford: Why? (100,000 words recommended)

Chicago Booth: Provide a detailed statistical analysis of why

Chicago-Booth is #1 in BWeek and never higher than #3 in USNews. Do

the math in your head.

NYU: How badly do you need a vacation from your ibanking job, and what

makes you think you will be able to get back into ibanking upon

graduation?

Yale SOM: Which nonprofit organization do you plan to run, and what

about running a nonprofit makes you feel important?

Columbia: In your opinion, what is the best way to sabotage the

Whartonian CFO of your company and become CFO?