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Carnegie Mellon University Business School MBA Essay Questions, Topics and Sample Essay Response
ESSAY 2001-2002
Suggested length: 2 double-spaced pages per essay.
1. What are your reasons for undertaking MBA study at Carnegie Mellon? Please describe how your experience, education and graduate training at Carnegie Mellon and your future career plans relate to each other. Describe your short-term and long-term objectives and how you plan to achieve them.
2. Because MBA students work closely together, we would like to understand what there is about your background and your experiences that would make a contribution to the diversity of the entering class and enhance the educational experience of other students.
3. Please describe an ethical issue that you have faced in your professional life, how you dealt with the situation and what the outcome was.
4. (Optional) Please comment on any item (or items) in your application you think worthy or necessary of further explanation. We are most interested in having you address any weaknesses or strengths that bear on your application.
5. (Optional) If there is any additional information or material you would like to include, please feel free to include it in a separate essay.
ESSAY 2002-2003
Suggested length: 2 double-spaced pages per essay.
1. What are your reasons for undertaking MBA study at Carnegie Mellon? Please describe how your experience, education and graduate training at Carnegie Mellon and your future career plans relate to each other. Describe your short-term and long-term objectives and how you plan to achieve them.
2. Because MBA students work closely together, we would like to understand what there is about your background and your experiences that would make a contribution to the diversity of the entering class and enhance the educational experience of other students.
3. Please answer one of the following two questions:
A. Please describe an ethical issue that you have faced in your professional life, how you dealt with the situation and what the outcome was.
B. Please describe a failure or setback in your professional or academic life. How did you overcome this setback? What, if anything, would you do differently if confronted with this situation again?
4. (Optional) Please comment on any item (or items) in your application you think worthy or necessary of further explanation. We are most interested in having you address any weaknesses or strengths that bear on your application.
5. (Optional) If there is any additional information or material you would like to include, please feel free to include it in a separate essay.
