Ohio State University’s Fisher College of Business Announces Deadlines & Essays for 2013-14 (Full-Time MBA)
Fisher College of Business announced its deadlines for its class starting in 2014 (Class of 2016). There are four deadlines for the program that has a class size of 115 students. The application itself will be live sometime in mid-July. Until then, prospective students can begin working on their essays.
The deadlines for the 2013-14 full-time MBA application are:
| Oct 15, 2013 | This is the deadline to be considered for a $1,000 professional development grant |
| Dec 15, 2013 | This is the priority deadline to be considered for all other fellowships, scholarships and any merit-based aid |
| Feb 15, 2014 | This is the recommended deadline to be considered for any merit-based aid |
| Apr 15, 2014 | This is the final deadline for admission in the class starting in Fall 2014 |
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The essay questions are:
Essay #1: Shaping Your Vision
Every year Fisher College’s Full-Time MBA program admits a select group of talented professionals with demonstrated potential to become successful business leaders in an increasingly competitive, global environment. Why do you want to earn an MBA degree in general and a Fisher College MBA in particular? How will Fisher specifically assist you in achieving your individual potential? As part of your response, include a brief summary of your professional accomplishments to date. If you have not held a full-time job or are still in college, let us know about your leadership accomplishments in a school, internship, or extracurricular context.
Maximum words: 750
Essay #2: Choice (A or B)
A. Focusing on Leadership
One of Fisher’s strengths is its dedication to developing leaders. Listed below are 10 attributes that characterize great leaders. Please select the two criteria that best describe your strengths and provide us with concrete evidence to support your choices.
Write an essay for each of the two characteristics you select, describing situations in which you exemplified these leadership traits. Please title each of your essays with the specific trait (e.g. ‘endurance’) that you have chosen for yourself. As part of your essay response, you may include a digital photo or link to content (e.g. blog, video clip, website, etc.) if that content helps to illustrate the attribute(s) you have chosen.
Please be sure to title each essay with the characteristic you selected.
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Maximum words: 500 per attribute
B. Discovering You
As a Fisher College MBA student, you get the best of both worlds: the up-close and personal feel of a small program combined with the resources and opportunities offered by a major research university. As an individual participant, you will play a key role in shaping our culture. Consequently, we would like to learn more about who you are and the unique characteristics you will contribute to the Fisher College community. Provide an honest description of yourself outside your professional context, stressing the personal characteristics you believe to be your strengths and weaknesses, along with the factors that have most influenced your development to date.
Maximum words: 750
Essay #3 Supplemental Information (Optional)
Please feel free to provide a statement concerning any information you would like to add to your application that you have not addressed elsewhere.
Maximum words: 250
