CASE WESTERN RESERVE UNIVERSITY
Essay Response 1:
Please enter your responses to the essay questions on application pages 8, 9, 10, and 11.
The following essay questions give you the opportunity to provide individualized information about yourself, your ambitions and your interests. Essays should be prepared with great care, as they arecritical to the evaluation of your application. Essays are evaluated for substance, writing ability andskill in organizing and presenting thoughts.
Please answer the first essay question (#1 below) and three of the remaining five essay questionson the next page. Each response should be limited to the equivalent of one typed page in length.
1. (REQUIRED) Describe your motivation for pursuing an MBA degree. How does it fit with yourshort- and long-term career goals?
Essay Response 2:
On the following three pages, answer three of the five essay questions shown below. Each answershould be entered on its own page; the first should be here on "Page 9"; the second should be on "Page 10"; and the third should be on "Page 11". You may choose any three of the five questions
below, but be sureto indicate at the top of the response which question you are answering.
- Describe an ethical dilemma that you have encountered in your professional, academic orpersonal experience. How did you handle it, and what was the outcome?
- Describe a situation in which your leadership and/or teamwork skills were required. Howwas the situation resolved?
- Describe the most difficult personal or professional challenge that you have faced in thepast five years. What did you learn from that experience?
- How will your background and experiences enhance the quality and diversity of the enteringclass of Weatherhead MBA students?
- How do you spend your leisure time? How have these activities contributed to your personal development?
Essay Response 3:
Choose one of the 5 questions below to answer as your third Essay Response.
- Describe an ethical dilemma that you have encountered in your professional, academicor personal experience. How did you handle it, and what was the outcome?
- Describe a situation in which your leadership and/or teamwork skills were required. Howwas the situation resolved?
- Describe the most difficult personal or professional challenge that you have faced in the
past five years. What did you learn from that experience?
- How will your background and experiences enhance the quality and diversity of the entering
class of Weatherhead MBA students?
- How do you spend your leisure time? How have these activities contributed to your personal development?
Essay Response 4:
Choose one of the 5 questions below to answer as your fourth Essay Response.
- Describe an ethical dilemma that you have encountered in your professional, academicor personal experience. How did you handle it, and what was the outcome?
| 