请教Cornell essay一题

flynnyan

就是写life story那题，是全写life to date的事呢，还是可以把以后的一些预期也写上？谢谢！

cdreamer666

可以写以后的预期阿，展望什么的

idle_lie

都写上，还有这个题目只要写目录么，可不可以写点前言，后记什么的

JonFrank

Hey there, and happy to answer this question.  While I chose to attend HBS, I got into Johnson as well, so I can help here!  : )

The answer is that you can do this however you want--talking about the past, the future, or both!  It is up to you.  But the MOST important thing is to be creative.  We have worked with clients who have only talked about their past experiences (and they were accepted at Johnson) and we have also worked with clients who talked about their futures (and they were accepted!)  The key is to be creative.  That is, you dont want this to become a resume--your resume will of course be submitted elsewhere in your application.  So here, you should talk about things that do NOT appear in your resume, and you need to find ways to be creative about it.  For inspiration, I recommend that you take a look at  the Table of Contents for an American author named J. Maarten Troost.  He has some very creative Tables of Contents--and they may inspire you!

Hope this helps, and good luck!

Jon Frank
HBS 2005
Founder,precisionessay

yoshimihoku

Hi, Jon, the information is very useful for me. But I was wondering how you define "creative". I searched J. Maarten Troost but couldn't find table of contents. Could you provide a link or briefly demonstrate his works? High appriciate!

moonwalker

Hey there, and happy to answer this question.  While I chose to attend HBS, I got into Johnson as well, so I can help here!  : )

The answer is that you can do this however you want--talking about the past, the future, or both!  It is up to you.  But the MOST important thing is to be creative.  We have worked with clients who have only talked about their past experiences (and they were accepted at Johnson) and we have also worked with clients who talked about their futures (and they were accepted!)  The key is to be creative.  That is, you dont want this to become a resume--your resume will of course be submitted elsewhere in your application.  So here, you should talk about things that do NOT appear in your resume, and you need to find ways to be creative about it.  For inspiration, I recommend that you take a look at  the Table of Contents for an American author named J. Maarten Troost.  He has some very creative Tables of Contents--and they may inspire you!

Hope this helps, and good luck!

Jon Frank
HBS 2005
Founder,

-- by 会员 JonFrank (2010/8/14 22:29:58)

Thanks Jon! do you have any specific example?

caopp

晕，找jon要人生素材...

茉莉清茶

可以尝试在amazon.com 上输入作者名字，里面有些可以预览书的内容的，你就可以发现书的contents 了。

NeilJ

我去年写的是 顶头一个标题 然后下面3句话左右展开一下 我也知道有人不是这么写的 看人吧 方式可以创新一些

yoshimihoku

我就是Amazon找的，不过只有简介，没看到目录

NeilJ，你当年一共写了几个标题呀？