EssaySnark's Strategies for the 2017-'18 MBA Application for MIT Sloan
The MIT application is not going to be your easiest one — but if you do the necessary pre-work and brainstorming, to properly plan out your material, it may end up being your best!
EssaySnark has totally redone this 2017 MBA application guide in accordance with the changes made at MIT this year (and then refreshed it TWICE since original publication, following additional changes to the Class of 2020 requirements. Hopefully the MIT app requirements are stable now!). Their cover letter is the same, but that’s almost all that is! We lay out a very detailed working strategy for how to identify the best content to go into these important deliverables for your MIT Sloan MBA application, from the cover letter to the ‘introduce yourself’ video. The 2017 SnarkStrategies Guide for MIT has been revised in myriad ways to help you plan out an approach and make the most of all the opportunities that this school is offering.
This MBA application guide gives you a framework for how to think about the four main application assets – the cover letter, the resume, and the in-app video questions, plus the interview-invitation “mission” essay. You’ll get a series of exercises to help you identify your best material. We go into an explanation of the methodology that Sloan Admissions uses in evaluating your candidacy, and discuss your ideal round strategy too. We also explain the MIT LGO dual-degree program (sorry, but without a formal discussion of their separate essays), and we touch on some reapplicant strategies this year, too. Basically, this guide presents everything you need to do your best with your MBA application to that other great school in Boston.
From Brave Supplicant to Sloanie… A decision was made!!!
I would like you to know that your Strategy Guide for Sloan was one of the things that convinced me to apply there! I’ll definitely do my best to match all the wonderful things you guys say about Sloanies!!! 😀
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EssaySnark's Strategies for the 2017-'18 MBA Application for MIT Sloan
First published in: 2012
Current version published on: 07/02/2017
Specific to: 2017
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Reviews from Brave Supplicants!
Here’s what one successful Brave Supplicant said to us after getting admitted to MIT in 2013:
There are a few Sloanies in Snarkville right?! That Strategy Guide is clearly an inside job! 🙂
Yes indeed, every year we see quite a few Brave Supplicants make it into MIT! The person who left that comment is the Class of 2016.
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I bought this guide after I was stumped on Sloan's "comfort zone" essay. I'd already drafted a response to the first question and thought I was overthinking this second. I bought this guide to get a second opinion; if it was a waste of money, at least I'd only lose 3 beers. Turns out it was a great bargain. It went very in depth on the first question, and I decided to rewrite my draft. I'd definitely recommend this for anyone seriously considering Sloan, especially if you haven't done much research.
Good:
-Great overview of Sloan admission process and application strategy
-Very in-depth on Question 1
-$12
Not so good:
-Not a fan of the online viewer
-Organization: a lot of the Question 2 stuff is found in the Question 1 section. Read the whole thing before skipping ahead.
TC says
I’m a reapplicant, and I find that I write the most genuine essays for MIT’s application. Because MIT doesn’t ask you to try to predict the future, and simply asks you to tell them what you did, felt, thought and said, I found my MIT essays to be more effective, moving and clear.
But I agree that Essay 1 is difficult. You have to get over the high-minded nature of the question and just say something that you believe in.
essaysnark says
Totally true. We’re seeing many MIT essays that are really revealing a lot about people – “actions speak louder” and all that. Some schools have very limited room to do this with, and yeah, it can be hard to do a good job on the career goals.
Good luck with MIT – they are very fond of reapplicants so you could have a real shot!