Pennsylvania State University--World Campus

Essay Response — Submit one document with your answers to 6 short-answer essay questions (50-100 words each) to allow the admissions committee to get to know more about you and to differentiate yourself from the competition. You should respond to these prompts:

What are your short-term and long-term career goals?
What will you contribute to your classmates and the program? Why should we admit you?
Tell us about your leadership style and provide a supporting example.
Given the team-based nature of our program, regular engagement with your colleagues is required for success. Please outline how you will meet your obligations to your course team members (completing assignments, attending meetings, etc.). Discuss your strategies, and perceived challenges, that you may have related to time management, resolving team conflict, and plans for how you will handle unexpected changes/interruptions to your schedule.
Give an example of a time in which you received professional constructive criticism. What was it, who did it come from, and how did you apply it going forward?
Explain how you are prepared/preparing to succeed in a quantitatively rigorous graduate program.