DUKE大学ESSAY问题，大家来讨论啊！

FuquaYF

各位，我看duke网站上essay的问题如下：请教大家应该从哪些方面进行阐述，才能更具有针对性啊？新手不太懂，请大家多多给些意见啊！谢谢啦！

1.     Describe your vision for your career and your inspirationfor pursuing this career path.

没啥好说的，Career goal呗。

2.     How will your background, values, and non-work activitiesenhance the experience of other Duke MBA students and add value to Fuqua'sdiverse culture?

Fuqua比较强调diversity，而且强调学生的主动性。一个学校愿意在全球开办分校，也是看出它追求文化差异的决心。这个文章其实就是强调自己的不同，自己作为中国人和外国人的不同，自己作为某个行业专家和其它申请者的不同，自己作为自己和其它同行的不同。

另外，也需要强调对于学校的贡献。但是要注意这个贡献不能是非常的generic，比如说：“我对于中国市场的了解。”其实这个说法也是可以的，需要改正一下也许能用，需要具体一点而且有证据证明。

3.     Why Duke? (If you are interested in a specificconcentration, joint degree, clubs or activities, please discuss how you wouldcontribute to these in this essay.)

Fuqua最牛逼的concentration 之一就是Health Sector Management，当然有很多joint degree。Club 对于学生的支持是不错的，学校对于Club的支持也说的过去。每个星期五，某些CLUB或者MBAA会出钱给大家买吃买喝，大家在食堂Winter Garden/Fox Center 附近一起hang out。喝酒聊天social。当然这个活动也吸引了大量非Fuqua的同学们，其中中国也人很多。

其实Fuqua还有几个有意思的课程，比如：small business consulting和mentor study program.这个都是在实际的business environment 中给学生提供机会，积累经验值的。在一开学，会有两门大课： LEO 和GIE。 LEO=leadership ethic and organization. GIE=global institution and environment. 这两门课程非常有用，对于领导层来说。也是第一年比较少的soft leadership的课程。真的希望这种课程多一点啊！当然这些基础的课程都是.....未来成为leader of consequence 的基础。

每年case competition 无数，这个每个学校都一样。

另外，Fuqua地处南方重镇Durham，远离城市喧嚣，地广人稀，物产丰富，价格低廉，适合家庭居住。并且，DUKE医疗设备绝对先进，每年有好多美国其它城市人员，不远万里来到这里看病，就和我们在中国看病去北京上海一样。所以，打算生小孩子的，duke 也是不错的选择。

-- by 会员 小铃铛 (2011/9/25 15:22:52)

Charisma1981

谢谢楼上的。
干脆我也在这里转一个，来自mbamission的essay analysis：

Duke must be satisfied with what its application essays tell the admissions committee about its candidates, because Fuqua has not made any changes to its essay questions this year. Pay special attention to essay two, which represents your most significant opportunity to reveal yourself as distinct, interesting and “valuable.” Candidates may want to read our interview with Fuqua Associate Dean for Admissions Liz Riley Hargrove for even more insight.

1. Describe your vision for your career and your inspiration for pursuing this career path.

In many ways, Fuqua’s essay questions one and three constitute the components of a classic Personal Statement. And, because Personal Statements are similar from one application to the next, we have produced the mbaMission Personal Statement Guide, which helps applicants write this style of essay for any school. We offer this guide to candidates free of charge, via our online store. Please feel free to download your copy today.

All of that written, you will notice that Fuqua does not explicitly ask about your short- and long-term career goals but instead asks about your “vision for your career.” Short- and long-term goals can be somewhat confining, but Fuqua instead offers you some flexibility and allows you to provide a broader and more reasoned compendium of your objectives and the path you hope to take to reach them. In some ways, this question is more challenging than a traditional “goal statement,” because you will need to be less practical and more profound in discussing your future.

2. How will your background, values, and non-work activities enhance the experience of other Duke MBA students and add value to Fuqua’s diverse culture?

This essay is broad and sweeping in nature, so it allows you to strategically showcase a mix of your greatest community and personal strengths. You should attempt to select a diversity of experiences and present them in such a way that you will be able to relate them back to your ability to contribute in a variety of areas—for example, in the classroom, study teams and the community at large. A successful essay will not only detail your personality/experiences, but also clearly illustrate how you will “enhance” Fuqua—meaning that it will demonstrate your intimate understanding of and connection to the Fuqua culture/experience.

3. Why Duke? (If you are interested in a specific concentration, joint degree, clubs or activities, please discuss how you would contribute to these in this essay.)

Please consult our analysis of essay one as it encompasses a response to essays one and three. For a thorough exploration of Duke’s academic program/merits, defining characteristics, crucial statistics, social life, academic environment and more, please check out the mbaMission Insider’s Guide to Duke University’s Fuqua School of Business.

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Charisma真是见多识广呀，嘻嘻~~