Yale SOM Announces Essay Questions for 2013-14 MBA Application & Introduces Video Essay Component

 

Bruce Delmonico, Assistant Dean and Director of Admissions at Yale School of Management, followed up the announcement of Yale’s 2013-14 MBA Deadlines by announcing the essay questions for the 2013-14 full-time MBA application.

To re-iterate, the 2013-14 full-time MBA program deadlines are:

Round 1: September 25, 2013
Round 2: January 9, 2014
Round 3: April 24, 2014 

Essay 1

What motivates your decision to pursue an MBA?  (300 words maximum)

Essay 2

The Yale School of Management provides leadership education for broad-minded, rigorous, and intellectually curious students with diverse backgrounds; a distinctive integrated curriculum; connections to one of the great research universities in the world; and the broad reach of an innovative and expanding global network of top business schools.

What motivates you to apply to the Yale School of Management for your MBA? What will you contribute to Yale and Yale SOM?   (450 words maximum)

In addition, a major change to Yale’s application this year is the introduction of video essays. This is a format that the Indian School of Business experimented with last year but scrapped this year as covered here.

Yale SOM is the only school among top-ranked business schools worldwide to have video formats. It will be interesting to see how this experiment plays out for Yale this year. Stay tuned to Crack The MBA to get guidance on the video essay and more in upcoming posts.