This is a straightforward essay that calls for an revelation of your leadership qualities. Assemble your most significant leadership experiences till date and portray your leadership capacity in the best light. While you can go back in time in case you want to show leadership progression, do not be stuck way back in time. Try to focus a substantial portion of the essay on recent experiences. If the essay also uncovers your attitude and approach to leadership, the Kellogg adcom will not complain.

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.

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Kellogg Essay 3

Assume you are evaluating your application from the perspective of a student member of the Kellogg Admissions Committee. Why would you and your peers select you for admission, and what impact would you make as a member of the Kellogg community? (600 word limit)

Kellogg Essay 3 Tips

In spirit very similar to last year's question "Assume you are evaluating your application from the perspective of a student member of the Kellogg Admissions Committee. Why would your peers select you to become a member of the Kellogg community?", your potential impact at Kellogg is explicitly asked for this year.

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 sets you apart?  Why should Kellogg bother talking to you when there are hundreds of other applicants with a comparable GMAT score or work experience or whatever? What value do you add to the Kellogg class?

A repeat question from previous years 2007-2008/2008-2009 might help: "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."

To get info for this Kellogg application essay you should not mind knocking at many doors. Now you have a legitimate defense when you bug your friends, peers, spouse for insights to write all those overlong MBA essays! 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.

Read up on Kellogg - the school, student activities, class profile, faculty, courses etc. before you write this essay. Showing a fit with the school and how your attitude, skills and experience can add value to Kellogg, will be impossible without sound knowledge of Kellogg - and yourself!

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Kellogg Essay 4 Complete one of the following three questions or statements. Re-applicants have the option to answer a question from this grouping, but this is not required. (400 word limit)

Kellogg Essay 4a

Describe an instance where you encountered resistance in a professional team setting. How did you address the situation?

Kellogg Essay 4a Tips

Moral courage. Decision making skills. Vision. Communication abilities. Strength of character. Ability to persuade. Reasoning power. These are just some of the qualities that you can base this essay on. Last year's prompt "Describe a time when you had to make an unpopular decision." might help your clarify the substance of the essay.

For selecting the particular situation/story for the essay, look back to identify professional circumstances in which you found yourself facing resistance from a system or people - for an unpopular or innovative outlook, decision or stance (which you hopefully had good reasons to take). The objective is to describe why and how you went about it and to write in a manner that underlines you as Kellogg-class leadership material. Though this cannot be a fairy tale, please understand that a long-term positive conclusion to the story would be almost inevitable.

As is often the case, the spotlight should be focused more on how you tackled the situation, actions you took, attitude you had and approaches that you initiated, rather than an exposition of what the situation was.

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Kellogg Essay 4b

People may be surprised to learn that I….

Kellogg Essay 4b Tips

Show differences.

Show uniqueness.

Write about a quality, trait or achievement that has not been covered in the other essays. Hobbies, interests or social activities that highlight qualities like leadership, initiative, creativity, innovation, teamwork, courage etc. that make you a strong Kellogg applicant could be chosen. Though we do not have space for rambling stories one or two succinct anecdotes would help the cause.

Beware of overlaps with the other Kellogg essays especially essay 3.

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Kellogg Essay 4c

The best mistake I ever made was…….

Kellogg Essay 4c Tips

Whenever a b-school application requests a "failure essay" it is to understand how you faced a failure and what you learned. That objective cannot be clearer than in this essay where you write about a mistake that proved to of most benefit to you.

If you never fell, you would never walk - write about the fall that improved you walk the most! Once again I stress that the learning and subsequent actions following the mistake are critical to this essay. Identify a personal or professional failure which taught you things about yourself, your work and life that changed you the most. Once you decipher how the failure created a difference in your thought process, leadership style, behavior or value system, you can rush to the printers with the story!

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Kellogg Reapplicant Essay

Required essay for re-applicants only: Since your previous application, what are the steps you’ve taken to strengthen your candidacy?

Kellogg Reapplicant Essay Tips

They can't be clearer than that. It would make a great difference if you have any objective or subjective feedback from Kellogg about your last application (though I doubt it). 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.

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