{"id":190,"date":"2009-06-05T09:44:38","date_gmt":"2009-06-05T09:44:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/examplesofpersonalstatements.com\/?p=190"},"modified":"2015-09-18T07:57:04","modified_gmt":"2015-09-18T07:57:04","slug":"ideas-that-can-make-your-mba-essay-stand-out","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/examplesofpersonalstatements.com\/index.php\/2009\/06\/05\/ideas-that-can-make-your-mba-essay-stand-out\/","title":{"rendered":"Ideas That Can Make Your MBA Essay Stand Out"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>When writing your MBA admission essay, one of your main goals is to stand out as a unique individual who makes a good candidate for college admission.\u00a0 Most examples of personal statement are able to do this well.\u00a0 Writing a unique MBA essay doesn\u2019t necessarily require that you write about your entire life history.(1)\u00a0 If you are stuck on how to write an MBA essay that stands out, try out some of the following tips:<\/p>\n<p><strong>Discuss what makes you both a leader and good team player<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Two marks of a great applicant are teamwork and leadership.\u00a0 The reason MBA schools hold teamwork and leadership with great regard is that these two traits are essential to being a good business student and a good businessperson in general. Some examples of personal statement focus on certain experiences or situations wherein the author had to take on the reigns and be the leader of the team, or had to sacrifice for the sake of teamwork.\u00a0 Be specific in the examples that you give, but expound on the qualities and character traits that you have developed because of your experiences.(2)<\/p>\n<p><strong>Tell readers what MBA can offer you<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Another way to make your MBA essay stand out is by talking about how an MBA degree can help you in your life.\u00a0 This is an approach used in many personal statement examples.\u00a0 Perhaps you have specific goals or aspirations in life that would be more easily attainable with an MBA degree.\u00a0 An MBA degree has a lot to offer you, so be sure to concentrate on the points that mean the most and those that will make the most impact on your career and life.\u00a0 Just remember not to make it sound \u201ctoo good to be true,\u201d otherwise, the admissions committee may just think you\u2019re sucking up.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Focus on your strengths and downplay your weaknesses<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Finally, use the MBA essay to highlight your strengths while downplaying your weaknesses.\u00a0 For example, you may want to briefly address a certain weakness or shortcoming of yours.\u00a0 Be sure to focus on how you have used your strengths to overcome such weaknesses.\u00a0 The point is to acknowledge the negative, but concentrate on the positive.(3)\u00a0 For a good idea on how to go about incorporating this third tip into your essay, have a look at an example of personal statement that talks about failures or hardships.<\/p>\n<p>(1)\u00a0 http:\/\/www.californiacolleges.edu\/admissions\/university-of-california-uc\/personal-statement.asp<br \/>\n(2)\u00a0 http:\/\/www.indiana.edu\/~wts\/pamphlets\/personal_statement.shtml<br \/>\n(3)\u00a0 http:\/\/owl.english.purdue.edu\/owl\/resource\/642\/01\/<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When writing your MBA admission essay, one of your main goals is to stand out as a unique individual who makes a good candidate for college admission.\u00a0 Most examples of personal statement are able to do this well.\u00a0 Writing a unique MBA essay doesn\u2019t necessarily require that you write about your entire life history.(1)\u00a0 If [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-190","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mba-admissions"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/examplesofpersonalstatements.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/190"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/examplesofpersonalstatements.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/examplesofpersonalstatements.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/examplesofpersonalstatements.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/examplesofpersonalstatements.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=190"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/examplesofpersonalstatements.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/190\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":191,"href":"https:\/\/examplesofpersonalstatements.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/190\/revisions\/191"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/examplesofpersonalstatements.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=190"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/examplesofpersonalstatements.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=190"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/examplesofpersonalstatements.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=190"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}