Professional Aspirations:
What are your short-term career goals?
Why is the Stern MBA the necessary next chapter in your professional story? Please be specific. (500 words, double-spaced, 12-point font)
Essay 1 Tips. A straightforward "career goals" essay from NYU Stern.
Your past experiences have given you knowledge and understanding and many skills but there is still a 'need-gap' that you want to fulfill before you can reach your goals. Ideally these goals would be beyond the immediate post-MBA goals, they would be part of your career vision. Show that an MBA program from Stern is your means to get to your career vision.
Think about what industry and function you would like to pursue- ideally that should tie in with your longer term career vision so be careful not to write this part of answer in isolation. Make sure your goals are credible, feasible and realistic. E.g. if you are an international student do not write about pursuing entrepreneurial goals in the US without considering immigration related challenges.
Personal Expression
Describe yourself to the Admissions Committee and to your future classmates using six images and corresponding captions. Your uploaded PDF should contain all of the following elements: A brief introduction or overview of your "Pick Six" (no more than 3 sentences). Six images that help illustrate who you are. A one-sentence caption for each of the six images that helps explain why they were selected and are significant to you.
In the growing digital and multimedia usage for both professional and personal expression, NYU Stern took a bold step a few years back to incorporate pictures as the main medium to get to know you and evaluate your 'fit' with their MBA program.
It is a wonderful opportunity to express yourself creatively and show varied aspects of your personality, interests, passion, and achievements!
We see that this MBA 'essay' could become difficult and challenging if you are not very good at taking pictures of your best moments and memories.
In that case, you can do two things:
- first, simple - you can now create, simulate situations and take pictures!
- second, you can use other forms of graphic images, sketches, and drawings. Get creative!
Please provide any additional information that you would like to bring to the attention of the Admissions Committee. This may include current or past gaps in employment, further explanation of your undergraduate record or self-reported academic transcript/s, plans to retake the GMAT and/or TOEFL or any other relevant information. If you are unable to submit a recommendation from a current supervisor, you must explain your reason; If you are a reapplicant from last year, please explain how your candidacy has improved since your last application; If you are applying to a dual degree program, please explain your decision to pursue a dual degree.
For this Stern optional essay, you need to first reflect and decide whether you need to write it at all. Of course, under the specific circumstances mentioned in the question, an explanation must be given.
Use this space to explain shortfalls in your application that you feel are truly detrimental to your candidature. Areas of underperformance (academic or professional or GMAT) or events which stick out (gaps in your resume or second MBA) or application issues (reapplications) can be commented on, if you have an explanation that is intelligent, interesting, and credible.
NYU MBA application requires you to submit a one-page resume along with details about your employment and academics. The typical MBA resume format consists of employment, education, and extracurricular details. MBA resume tips
In your NYU application, you will be asked to provide two MBA letters of recommendation - from your current or previous supervisors. Like many top business schools in the US, NYU MBA application constitutes of letter of recommendation questions modified from the GMAC MBA letter of recommendation template. MBA LOR tips
As is the policy with most top business schools, NYU MBA interviews are conducted only by invitation. Students typically would receive an invite 4-6 weeks after submitting their MBA applications. MBA interview tips
