Deadlines for Applying to the MBA Program
| 2019-20 Deadlines | Round 1 | Round 2 | Round 3 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Submit your application by1 | 12 Sep 2019 | 09 Jan 2020 | 08 Apr 2020 |
| We will notify you2 | 12 Dec 2019 | 02 Apr 2020 | 21 May 2020 |
| Your reply and deposit are due by | to be announced | to be announced | to be announced |
1 2:00 pm Pacific Time, including your letters of reference and application fee payment. We cannot guarantee that we will review information sent to the MBA Admissions Office after the deadline of the round in which you apply.
2 See “Decision Notification” section below.
Decision Notification
We will post your decision to your account on the notification date above for the round in which you applied. We will send an email to the address used to create your application profile to notify you when your decision is available.
We do not accommodate requests for an early decision, or for decision information to be provided via phone or in person.
Essays
Essays help us learn about who you are rather than solely what you have done. Other parts of the application give insight to your academic and professional accomplishments; the essays reveal the person behind those achievements.
Essay Questions
We request that you write two personal essays.
In each essay, we want to hear your genuine voice. Think carefully about your values, passions, aims, and dreams. There is no “right answer” to these questions—the best answer is the one that is truest for you.
Essay A: What matters most to you, and why?
For this essay, we would like you to reflect deeply and write from the heart. Once you’ve identified what matters most to you, help us understand why. You might consider, for example, what makes this so important to you? What people, insights, or experiences have shaped your perspectives?
Essay B: Why Stanford?
Describe your aspirations and how your Stanford GSB experience will help you realize them. If you are applying to both the MBA and MSx programs, use Essay B to address your interest in both programs.
Length
Both essays combined may not exceed 1,150 words. We recommend up to 750 words for Essay A and up to 400 words for Essay B. We often find effective essays written in far fewer words.
Formatting
Be sure to save a copy of your essays, and preview the uploaded document to ensure that the formatting is preserved.
Optional Short-Answer Question
The two required essays shed light on who you are and how you imagine Stanford will help you achieve your aspirations. We are also interested in learning about the things you have done that are most meaningful to you. In this section, we provide an optional opportunity to go beyond your resume to discuss some of your contributions more fully.
Please do not include your short-answer response in your essays upload; use the text boxes provided in the application.
Optional Short-Answer Question:
Think about times you’ve created a positive impact, whether in professional, extracurricular, academic, or other settings. What was your impact? What made it significant to you or to others? You are welcome to share up to three examples. (Up to 1500 characters, approximately 250 words, for each example)
Editing Your Essays
Begin work on the essays early to give yourself time to reflect, write, and edit.
Feel free to ask friends or family members for feedback — especially about whether the tone and voice sound like you. Your family and friends know you better than anyone. If they think the essays do not capture who you are, what you believe, and what you aspire to do, then surely we will be unable to recognize what is distinctive about you.
Feedback vs. Coaching
There is a big difference between “feedback” and “coaching.” You cross that line when any part of the application (excluding the letters of reference) ceases to be exclusively yours in either thought or word.
Appropriate feedback occurs when others review your completed application — perhaps once or twice — and apprise you of omissions, errors, or inaccuracies that you later correct or address. After editing is complete, your thoughts, voice, and style remain intact. Inappropriate coaching occurs when you allow others to craft any part of your application for you and, as a result, your application or self-presentation is not authentic.
It is improper and a violation of the terms of this application process to have someone else write your essays. Such behavior will result in denial of your application or revocation of your admission.
首先我想鼓励大家，任何背景的同学都可以申请Stanford，它绝不是一所创业专属的学校。其次，他家的essay真的太有名，导致有些人误会可以纯粹靠写感人的文章被录取，我认为这是小概率事件。这种级别的学校基本上你需要背景分数先满足了，再来谈理想和情怀。
Essay A: What matters most to you, and why?
这篇文章的重点不是这个“what”，不需要费尽心思试图琢磨出一个惊世骇俗夺人眼球的答案。我看过的成功录取人的Essay中，这个“what”本身绝不稀奇，有的甚至有些俗套，有的也许就是正在看这篇解析的你曾经想过的内容。但每个“what”背后的supporting evidence，却都自成一体，彰显出与众不同的个性。
建议申请人
不要着急得出结论，而是先做一次深刻的自我反思——回顾一下自己从小到大的一些重要事件，特别是一些你做过的重要决定，总结一下每件事背后体现了你怎样的性格和价值观——这些决定了你的思考和行为方式，使你成为独一无二的你。例如，当你面临选择时，你是如何权衡的？当你需要牺牲时，你的Priority是什么？某件事明明用别的方式做也是可以接受的，为什么你却那样做？……理清楚这些后，从中把重复多次、体现得淋漓尽致的那一个idea拎出来，用它作为主线，把enhance这个特质的相关事件串联起来。
我自己非常喜欢“一个主题三个故事”这种写法：有一个overarching的概念，然后从不同维度、不同场景、不同层面的意义来写。我自己在申请的时候写，小时候，教育对我来说意味着争取机会；工作后，教育令我能够帮助他人成长；而将来，教育是实现更大影响力的手段。由此，在下文里引出，为什么我今天在这里申请grad school，我下一步想要做什么来继续践行这个“what”。
Essay B: Why Stanford?
Why school和申请人未来想做什么、希望从商学院获得什么——这样一个vision，终究是分不开的。因此，文章的开头，建议申请人还是先简要阐述一下自己的professional goal(s)，这个goal(s)最好具备以下几个特点：
1）真诚：Stanford GSB鼓励“follow your heart”，你应该写出真正的passion。
2）开拓创新：“为世界带来变革”是Stanford GSB的基因，既然你选择了它，你期待的未来自然不仅仅只是一份工作、一个职业，而是为大到整个国家、某个行业，小到一个公司或集体，做出一些改变。
3）靠谱：前两条加起来并不意味着申请人可以异想天开，背后的rationale仍然非常重要。有校友曾经说过，学校关注的不是申请者究竟想做什么、有多么伟大的抱负，而是是否真的考虑过如何将理想变为现实。
4）体现你的drive：最后，也是最重要的是，你的goal要和第一篇essay的“What”相互呼应、联成一体，表明你未来会继续在实践中将你一贯的价值观行出来。
说清楚了goal，文章的后半部分则要描写在Stanford GSB所能获得的一些“独特的”机会，比如课程、项目、活动、学生组织等等，记住，是“专属于它”的资源。表明一下你打算如何利用这些资源去更好地实现你的目标。
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