The Application Process

Some things changed and some things are the same. Let's crack the code!

CBS MBA Essay 1

Through your resume and recommendations, we have a clear sense of your professional path to date. What are your career goals going forward, and how will the Columbia MBA help you achieve them? (100-750 words)

Same question as last year, only instead of a 500 word maximum, you've got anywhere between 100-750 words to work with.

This is mostly a standard goals and school fit essay. But they make an effort to try to keep you off of the resume dump approach. Now, there IS a way to slip in some of your achievements, but only because the good version of this will strengthen the "how CBS will help" piece.

In order to explain where you fall short, and therefore why you need CBS to help fill the gaps, we need to know where you excel. So, in THAT context, you can explain what you're great at, and how it relates to your goals. But it's all in service of the moment when you reveal that there are key gaps in your skill set.

Be specific here. The more specific you are about the thing you're missing, the better able you'll be to tie CBS specifically to addressing those gaps best.

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