tips for essays

The essays are the most important component of business school applications. This is where you have the best opportunity to tell your story of your account of where you have been and where you want to go professionally, how an MBA is necessary for getting there, and why a given school is the right place for you.

The essays are also important because business schools consider communication skills a big part of who will make a good business leader. Following are some tips to keep in mind as you prepare your essays. (To check out sample B-school admission essays, look at books like Richard Montauk’s How to Get Into the Top MBA Programs.)

1. Start the process early. Review your accomplishments; consider your goals; figure out your story, the picture of you that will be irresistible to B-schools.

2. Show the logic of your career path. This is a big one. Show how what you’ve experienced so far has shaped your current career goals and why getting an MBA now is necessary for achieving those goals.

3. Show your professionalism. Maintain a professional tone in your essays. Avoid negativism; don’t complain about being a victim about that time the boss treated you unfairly, say, or impeded your career growth. Also, make sure there are no grammatical errors or typos in your essays. None. Zero.

4. Rewrite. After writing your essays, put them away for a week or two to give yourself some perspective on their quality. Then take them out and rewrite them. Then give them to the writers and editors in your life for comments, and rewrite them one more time. Finally, after giving the essays a final edit, pass them on to a couple of people to proofread.

5. Show your leadership skills. B-schools are trying to make business leaders. So include examples of times you exhibited leadership skills in your past: management experiences on the job, say, or leadership positions you held in school or in volunteer organizations.

6. Show your team skills. In addition to leadership potential, B-schools also look for people who get along with others and know how to work on a team to achieve a common goal. Think about times in your past, at work, in school, or elsewhere, when you played a role on a team attempting to achieve a goal or solve a problem.

7. Show that you’ve well rounded. Strong managers are able to process a wide range of issues every day, and to pursue several projects at once. So the accountant who acts in a local theater group has an advantage over the accountant who is part of a local chapter of an accounting society and a decided advantage over the accountant with no interests outside work.

8. Show that you’re unique. At the same time, B-schools want people who will add new perspectives and knowledge to the student body. If you work in a field that isn’t traditionally a big source of MBA students if you are a nurse, say, or a journalist, take your nontraditional experience a centerpiece of your applications.

9. Show your fit with the school. Show that you have done your homework and know the culture of the schools you are applying to, and how those schools stand apart from others. Point out why you make a good fit at each school you are applying to.

10. Use specific examples. Don’t simply say you are responsible or hard working. Instead, talk about the time you worked many extra hours to complete a project because you have promised to have it done by a deadline.

11. Start with your safety schools. Do the essays for the schools you are less interested in, or less worried about getting into, first. They will give you a chance to hone your story and get in a good writing groove before you tackle the essays you care most about.

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