请问大家都是自己写ESSAY吗

siberiawolf

以下是引用Snazzy在2004-7-20 11:26:00的发言：


Sorry, buddy, i can not agree. In my perspective, you have to tell you the truth in every single question. You can only convince others with your heart. Furthermore, getting into a business school should not be a goal, at least, not the final goal. Keep in mind that we are looking for a career path, not simply an MBA.

Ideally, you are right. But when the application essays are flooded with hypers and fakes, the adcom actually find it's quite hard to differentiate the true from the fake.

As far as I observe, most applicants will add some flavour to their concrete experiences, and even most American applicants do so or even more. But make sure that your experiences in writing makes sense.

It's true that the best way to convince is to convince with your heart, but many times, it's really hard to read your heart by reading your paper in a simply 5-10 minutes.

Still, what I am conveying is that don't get yourself confined by the so called moral responsibility. Do what you think is appropriate and necessary. Any all, the admission is important.

As far as the career path issue, I have to say, most of the MBA graduates will laugh at it as garbage because few advances their career as is in their essays.

Don't be too serious, take the application as game, but certainy you have to play the game with your heart, intelligence and devotion.

minghoo

I can't agree on fabricating in your essays. As you may know, most good business schools started on conducting background check for 2004 entry class. Last year Wharton's background check is quite effective and filtered out many false claims (by the way, if discoverd this will put  you on a forever blacklist, you will have absolutely no chance whatsoever on getting into any top 15 schools once you are on this list since they do share this information). I also want to point out that even after graduation, if somehow some one discovered that you made things up in your essays and reported it to school, you can still lose your degree and diploma. Several years ago some students could get away from lying in their essays, however, don't think that admission staffs are still so naive. Things changed a lot during the past two years. Last year two Wharton graduates lost their diploma three and four years after graduation since their potential employer conducted background check to them and found out that their record from school were not accurate.

Getting in a top business school does not necessarily mean that you have to be absolutely exceptional in your credential. Instead, showing your thought process in your essays benefit you more than a glorious resume. I got into Wharton with only about 2 years fulltime post graduation work history in a very small start up and an undergraduate degree from a third tier business school in the US. However, I wrote my own essays with truth and was interviewed by all the schools (totally 3) I applied, and admitted by two great schools. So do have faith in yourself, and save yourself the future problem by focusing on what experience is uniquely yours, instead of focusing on what others have and you don't.

I hope we Chinese can understand that we represent our great country once we are in business school. Sure, moral responsibility is not required for you to apply, however, somehow I do feel that not taking chances on something Americans loath the most (lying, insincere) provides me much freedom. Best luck on all your applications this year and hope to see a few of you here at Wharton in 2005!

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must750

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螺旋霉素

thank you must750.

totally agree with minghoo. I noticed that Haas also has carried out BG-checking since 04' and they will employ a third-part vender to do it this yr.