请问MIT Sloan的Essay 2一定是"personal" (non-professional) setback吗？

Alicccy · 发表于 2012-12-26 10:51:48

各位大侠们，请教一下，MIT Sloan今年的essay 2

lease describe a time when you overcame a personal setback. 必须是与工作无关的setback吗？（我看到有的MBA咨询机构这样说过）

多谢！

wowyjs · 发表于 2012-12-26 12:43:16

没有把，这是指个人的，对应有的team failure的题目，没说是非得工作无关的。可以看下前面的essay分析
明天就deadline了，不会现在才写吧

Alicccy · 发表于 2012-12-26 15:35:32

谢谢回复！已经写了，可是发现了这个问题。。

那么，我写的事例是我做一个team leadr失败的经历，然后再overcame，这样的能算做personal么（还是已经算team了。。。）？

thanks！~

jessiewoo2 · 发表于 2012-12-26 15:38:54

MIT官方关于personal setback的说法是：“Your example can be from a work or professional situation but should be something that affected you personally".

Hope this helps. Good luck.

joycraft · 发表于 2012-12-26 19:12:30

Essay 2: Please describe a time when you overcame a personal setback. (500 words or fewer, limited to one page)
Many candidates will read this essay prompt and lament, “Another failure essay…” As we frequently note in our essay analyses, you should not be hesitant to discuss a failure. After all, the admissions committee can learn a great deal from stories of redemption. That said, the phrase “personal setback” encompasses failure, but it extends even more broadly. If, for example, regulation resulted in your employer going broke and you losing your job, this cannot be considered a “failure” on your part, because the regulation and subsequent bankruptcy “happened” to you—you did not cause or trigger either event. In this example, your job loss would be qualified as a setback, which would be an acceptable topic to discuss in this essay.
The key to writing about a setback is showing that you took a very hard knock to start. You will need to create for your reader a sense of excitement or positivity about the central situation or opportunity and then show that this situation/opportunity was completely derailed. So, using our example of the candidate who lost his job when a regulator shut down the business, for his essay to have impact, he would need to convey more than that he simply worked at the company and instead show that he was truly thriving there and moving toward future opportunities. The reader needs to comprehend that you were in a dynamic situation with marked forward momentum and so would be deeply disappointed to read about your ultimate setback. Once you have achieved this, you must demonstrate that you were then able to rise and overcome. Redeeming yourself is of the utmost importance in this essay—you must show how you picked yourself up, charted a new course and rose above where you previously stood (or earnestly accepted a reality and at least displayed promise of achieving more). The reader must clearly conclude from your story that lessons were learned and that this was a valuable growth experience.

JonFrank · 发表于 2013-1-4 15:52:42

Of course not!!! It asks for a personal setback, you HAVE to write a personal setback... now, personal setbacks CAN happen in a professional setting! So what is the difference? For example, let's say you're talking about a HUGE project at work - if you write about not having enough budget to do something, then this is too professional and you are not answering the question, which is not good. Buuuut let's say you use the same story, and you write about a inter-PERSONAL problem - I don't know, somebody doesn't trust you because you did something, or you were nervous and messed up your first presentation, then the essence is personal, and you CAN write that story....
Does this clarify things for you?

Jon Frank
HBS 2005

goleo · 发表于 2013-1-4 20:45:10

楼上，这次，你来晚了~~

请问MIT Sloan的Essay 2一定是"personal" (non-professional) setback吗？

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