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| Common Business School Essay Questions | Nobody ever said that it was going to be easy. A b-school application will take anywhere from fifty to one hundred hours to complete, depending on where you're applying and how prolific a writer you are. Sound too much? Go forward and try it. Most likely you’ll rewrite an essay many times over. To gestate it takes time for thoughts. In fact, it may seem a fine wine ages faster than you write an essay.
 You should take a look at every essay question on each of your applications to determine how to optimally allocate your stories and anecdotes. For either a leadership essay or an essay about failure, one story can work well. You should also have several good stories for leadership, and none other for failure. Working out how you're going to allocate your anecdotes and stories is critical to your overall strategy.
1. Career Goals and the MBA
Try to describe your specific career aspirations. How can your objectives be furthered by an MBA degree and by our MBA program in particular? How the "X" school MBA degree can help you attain your specific career and personal goals for the five years after you graduate? Talk about your career progression to date. What aspects have influenced your choice to look for a general management education? What you know about yourself at this time, how do you envision your career progressing after receiving the MBA degree? Please indicate your professional goals, and describe your plan to achieve them.
• What do I want to be when I grow up, and how will the MBA get me there?
It is perhaps one of the most important essay question. It describes the reasons why you should be given one of the cherished spots in the program. Although your post-MBA future is tough to envision, this question must be answered.
A good method to outline this essay is to talk about how the MBA makes sense in light of your background, skills, and achievements to date. Figure out why do you need this degree and why now. One general explanation is being stymied in your work by a lack of skills that can be gained in their program. Otherwise you may want to use the MBA as a bridge to the next step. It is, for example, an actress who wants an MBA to prepare for a career in theater management. That’s why, the more specific, the better.
It’s possibly easier to provide specifics by breaking your plans into short-term and long-term objectives.
Don't worry about presenting modest goals. If you want to stay there and are in accounting, say so. Getting deeper your expertise and broadening your perspective are solid reasons for pursuing this degree. Conversely, be free to indicate that you'll use the MBA to change careers; 70 percent of all students at b-school are there to do just that.
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