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LBS Essays and Essay Tips 2007-2008:

LBS Essay 1

In what role do you see yourself working immediately after graduation? Why? How will your past and present experiences help you achieve this? How will the London Business School MBA Programme contribute to this goal? (500 words)

LBS Essay 1 Tips

This LBS application question is one of the few Business School essays that sharply zoom into your immediate post MBA job. LBS clearly wants a logical career progression that connects your past, present and future with the LBS MBA.

Focus on your short term professional plans with a vengeance because LBS wants to test the credibility, logic and achievability of your dreams and its (and your) fit with LBS.

In addition to telling LBS why you want the job, you also need to answer "why LBS" in the essay. List all the reasons why you want to learn at LBS and how it will further your chances for your post-LBS dream job. Ensure that the essay provides logical and well-supported reasons to this question.

LBS Essay 2

Where do you see your career progressing five years after graduation and what is your longer term career vision? (200 words)

LBS Essay 2 Tips

From your perspective it would be useful to think about these essays together and then separate the points for each essays, before you put pen to paper. There should be professional and personal reasons that link your long-term goals with your short-term goals, past experience and LBS.

LBS Essay 3

Please describe your experience of working in and leading teams, either in your professional or personal life. Given this experience, what role do you think you will play in your study group, and how do you intend to contribute to it? (500 words)

LBS Essay 3 Tips

The choice of experiences for writing this LBS essay should be based on the general importance of the experiences - to your team, in your development as a team player and a leader, and as a correlation between your skills and the LBS study group.

Before answering the second part, building some knowledge about LBS study groups would be in order. Do not try to wing it. Get information from the website and other sources (alumni).

LBS Essay 4

Student involvement is an extremely important part of the London MBA experience and this is reflected in the character of students on campus. What type of student club or campus community event do you envisage yourself leading? How would you set about becoming involved in a leadership position and how would you align and communicate the goals and vision for the club to the wider School community? (400 words)

LBS Essay 4 Tips

Since you are asked to market an idea and an entity you can start by researching your market, creating strategic communication and marketing plans, and trying to create a marketing success. This is a truly enjoyable essay if approached in the right spirit, else it can be quite a pain. Given a choice why choose pain, huh?

LBS Essay 5

Describe any significant experiences outside of your home country. What did you gain from these? (150 words)

LBS Essay 5 Tips

Your outlook and maturity in cross-cultural interactions and your experiences thereof would form the core of this LBS MBA application essay. It allows you to expound on all your international experiences - professional and personal.

LBS Optional Essay

Is there any other information that you believe would help the MBA Admissions Committee when considering your application? (300 words)

LBS Optional Essay Tips

Do not submit your LBS optional essay as an addendum to any of your essays. Do not submit your optional essay because you feel that the quality of your earlier essays is improvable – if that is the case, simply redouble your efforts in those LBS application essays and leave the optional essay alone.

In case you find any of the above applicable, note down the options and then consider again if the optional essay is a robust constructive addition to your candidacy. If yes, start working on the LBS optional essay.