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Kellogg Essays and Tips (2008-2009)

Kellogg MBA Essay and Essay Tips 2008-2009:

First get the basic principles right and then move on to the essay tips.

Kellogg Essay 1

A. Briefly assess your career progress to date. Elaborate on your future career plans and your motivation for pursuing a graduate degree at the Kellogg School. (One to two pages double-spaced)

Kellogg Essay 1 Tips

Kellogg wants you to assess and evaluate your career progress in the context of your MBA application. This essay should also address the relevance of a Kellogg MBA for your future career goals. As usual in an MBA goals essay, if you can establish a logical and credible link between your past, present and future, this Kellogg essay almost writes itself. If you can add passion as well, you have the recipe for a great essay. While "why Kellogg" is an important question that needs to be addressed in this essay, blending key non-career aspects that are relevant to your story will only add to the strength of your application.

Kellogg Essay 2

Each of our applicants is unique. Describe how your background, values, academics, activities and/or leadership skills will enhance the experience of other Kellogg students. (One to two pages double-spaced)

Kellogg Essay 2 Tips

Each MBA applicant is unique. But every admissions committee hungrily awaits candidates who can actually display that uniqueness in their essays. All MBA essay packages are basically about selling YOU: this Kellogg essay is an explicit expression of that. What is your USP (Unique Selling Proposition), what makes you different, why should Kellogg bother talking to you when there are hundreds of other applicants with a comparable GMAT score or work experience or whatever?

To get info for this Kellogg application essay you should not mind knocking at many doors. Your friends, colleagues and family are excellent sources for giving you obvious answers which you might have overlooked. But the best source is always going to be the one you see in the mirror. Ask this person about you at work, play and studies to uncover traits, situations, values, distinctions, hobbies, passions and skills that set you apart. In addition to integrating this Kellogg essay with the ones that follow, all you have to do (!) is to portray a convincing picture of a person who can add definite value to Kellogg and the Kellogg student community.

Kellogg Essay 3

How have your past and current leadership experiences prepared you for Kellogg? What leadership areas are you hoping to develop through your MBA experience? (One to two pages double-spaced)

Kellogg Essay 3 Tips

A double-edged new essay question from Kellogg.

Leadership is the most focused-on single trait that almost all Business Schools look for: Kellogg is no exception. So we will just assume that the good people at Northwestern University want an even stronger focus on your leadership profile this time.

You can tackle the second Kellogg link in this essay - what leadership areas are you hoping to develop through your MBA experience - by matching the areas of special focus that Kellogg delivers in aiding leadership development with your own leadership traits/focus-areas that you find improvable.

Kellogg Essay 4 Complete two of the following six questions or statements. (Two to three double- spaced paragraphs each)

Kellogg Essay 4 A

Outside of work I…

Kellogg Essay 4 A Tips

Show differences.

Show uniqueness.

Talk about all your hobbies and interests.

Show non-work activities that highlight the qualities that make you a strong Kellogg applicant. These can include, but need not be limited to, leadership, initiative, creativity, innovation, teamwork, courage...

Kellogg Essay 4 B

I wish the Admissions Committee had asked me…

Kellogg Essay 4 B Tips

Mouth watering stuff! Write on ANYTHING you want to tell the Kellogg admissions committee. Use this essay to traverse an area in your personality or life that has not been covered in the other essays.

Kellogg Essay 4 C

Describe the most challenging professional relationship you have faced and how you handled it.

Kellogg Essay 4 C Tips

Read your first draft and ask yourself - does this relationship portray my best interpersonal qualities? If you can show yourself as a mature, intelligent person who can calmly handle tough professional and personal situations, you will win 80% for this essay. Not 100% - that depends on how well you do that.

Kellogg Essay 4 D

Since your previous application, what are the steps you have taken to strengthen your candidacy? Question 4F must be answered by all re-applicants as one of the required two questions.

Kellogg Essay 4 F Tips

They can't be clearer than that. It would make a great difference if you have objective or subjective feedback from Kellogg about your last application. Seek out specific areas of critical weaknesses in your last Kellogg application and illustrate how they have been neutralized. Specific achievements - academic, professional or personal - that have occurred after your last Kellogg application should also find a place here.

Go for it!