1. What are your professional goals and how will an MBA from First Choice B-School help you achieve them?
To further bring out your experiences and add pieces to the jigsaw puzzle that is you, tie your future to your past with this school's program: Show how your aspirations stem from past experience and then discuss how the school's program will enable you to achieve your goals. Use this essay to bring out elements of your experience not discussed elsewhere and reflect back on what you liked and disliked. Then demonstrate knowledge of the school's program while showing how it is the perfect bridge between the past and the future. In discussing the school's program, please include specifics and don't use the same essay for all the schools. If you do, your essay will blend into the monotonous blur of flowery compliments and platitudes about "exciting (or quiet) location, top faculty, outstanding reputation, and diverse student body from which I can learn so much as I too contribute." They don't need you to tell them how wonderful they are. If they weren't wonderful, you wouldn't be applying in droves. Write about the school's special features. If one of the professors is an expert in the area in which you are particularly interested, mention that you would like to study with him or her. If this school has unusual opportunities or programs that appeal to you, discuss how they will help you to achieve your goals. Show that the school has a unique appeal to you. When revealing your goals and plans for the future, be realistic. Demonstrate an understanding of typical career paths in your field. For example, unless you have some very responsible position now, you can't expect to manage a multi-billion dollar portfolio upon graduation. But you may plan to be an analyst upon graduation and after a few years manage increasingly large portfolios, perhaps specializing in an area of particular interest. If you have a long-term goal that even you acknowledge is a long shot, you can still discuss it, but I suggest you refer to it as a dream (dreams are great!) and also discuss some down-to-earth goals — goals you are likely to achieve as a result of your past experiences and the MBA you hope to receive from First Choice B-School.
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