Stanford GSB MBA 2025 年入学 Deadline & Essays & Essays解析

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2024–25 Deadlines       

Application Round	Submit your application by …	We will notify you on …
Round 1	10 Sep 2024	05 Dec 2024
Round 2	08 Jan 2025	03 Apr 2025
Round 3	08 Apr 2025	29 May 2025

  

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Essays

Essays help us learn about who you are rather than solely what you have done.

Other parts of the application give insight into 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 1,000 words. We recommend up to 650 words for Essay A and up to 350 words for Essay B. We often read effective essays that are written in fewer words.
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 recommendation) 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 another person or tool write your essays. Such behavior will result in denial of your application or revocation of your admission.

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官网链接：http://www.gsb.stanford.edu/programs/mba/admission
选校宝典：ChaseDream Global Top Business School Guide

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论文解析

斯坦福继续沿用上个申请季的文书题目，这表明学校对这两道题在评估申请人匹配度方面的有效性非常满意。

改变生活，改变组织，改变世界，这是斯坦福的座右铭。商学院的使命是培养有原则、有洞察力和创新精神的领导者，希望找到能够在课堂内外产生积极影响的学生。因此，学校试图在申请中了解候选人的思维方式、领导方式和看待世界的方式。

how you think, how you lead, and how you see the world.

反思与洞察

这里关注的是“how”而不是“show”，这意味着你需要对自己行为的动因有清晰的反思和洞察，而不仅仅是展示给学校看。

回想那些你主动学习新事物、解决挑战性问题或发展新见解的时刻。你发现了什么？你是如何分享你学到的东西的？为什么它对你和其他人很重要？这些经验对学校同样重要，因为它们可以帮助学校了解你将如何在课堂内外为斯坦福的学习社区做出贡献。

过去行为的重要性

学校相信过去的行为是未来行为的最佳预测指标——这也是商学院选拔的通用逻辑。因此，学校想了解你过去的行为如何在你所参与的组织和社区中创造了积极的变化。在大学、职业角色或课外活动中，那些能够体现你主动、坚持不懈地应对挑战、让他人参与你的工作并支持你周围的人的例子都可以。

价值观与抱负

你的价值观、信仰、身份和抱负将塑造你的未来，同时也给你未来的同学带去多元而丰富的视角。因此，学校希望通过论文了解对你最重要的事情和你的抱负，了解你的背景如何塑造了你迄今为止的道路并指引了你未来的梦想。同样，当你置身这个群体时，你也将了解他人的经历，他们可能会打破你的成见和假设，让你发展出看待世界的新方式。这是斯坦福所希望建设的社区。

因此我们需要多花点时间反思自己是谁，并对自己有信心。没有“典型的”斯坦福 MBA 学生，be yourself.

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