Owen Graduate School of Management (Vanderbilt)

We have four required written statements and all have a 75 word limit. Three statements are career-focused and one is a more creative statement.

Statement 1: What are your short-term career goals after obtaining your MBA and what functional area do you plan to study while in the MBA program?
Statement 2: What are some specific skills that you want to develop during your time in business school to help you achieve your career goals?
Statement 3: The role of the Vanderbilt MBA Career Management Center is to partner with students to discover and define their career goals; to educate and coach students in developing and refining skills and experiences to achieve their career goals; to facilitate partnerships among students, the business community and the Vanderbilt community. How do you plan to direct your career search and collaborate with the Career Management Center to work toward your career goals?
Statement 4: Our mission is to provide world-class business education on a personal scale. What does personal scale mean to you?
Optional Explanatory Statement: You may provide an additional statement to explain anything that you think is important for the Admissions Committee to know about you that is not already addressed elsewhere in your application. Many applicants use this statement to explain significant gaps in full-time employment, lack of recommendation from a current supervisor, or subpar academic performance.