Grad's guide to graduate admissions essays - Colleen Reding 2015
Northwestern university - Kellogg school of management
Business
Assume you are evaluating your application from the perspective of a student member of the Kellogg Admissions Committee. Why would you and your peers select you for admission, and what impact would you make as a member of the Kellogg community?
The students of the Kellogg Admissions Committee have accepted Jane into Kellogg’s class of 2014.
We’ve selected her primarily because her energy and passion mirror our own. While all Kellogg applicants have proven records of intelligence, Jane merges intellect with authentic energy. She has an entrepreneurial spirit that breeds contagious excitement and drive for change. As evidenced by her team-based consulting work, she is collaborative and converts her ideas into building blocks for end solutions. Jane’s passion for women’s leadership is clear from both her ongoing work with Georgetown’s Women in Business group and also in her desire to build a business that supports women’s leadership across the world. The Kellogg culture is rooted in people with such deep passion; the vibrancy of our community comes from the diversity of focus, yet commonality of intensity in the passions of our students. Jane’s energy makes her a natural fit into the Kellogg culture.
Additionally, we’ve selected Jane because we believe she will contribute meaningfully to Kellogg. It is clear that Jane understands the importance of both taking from and giving back to her school. That is, Jane will grab hold of all of the opportunities provided to people in purple. She will attend the Kellogg Super Bowl Ad Review, join the Kellogg Operations Seminar Series, and adventure across the world on a GIM trip. We also picture Jane giving back to Kellogg. Jane will lead a Neighborhood Business Initiative project, organize the Special K show, serve as a voice on the KSA, and run a KWEST trip. We can tell that Jane is like us; she prefers to be overcommitted and on the go. While at Georgetown, Jane threw herself into leading groups and activities. She did the same at her consulting firm, chairing committees and leading the office in well being initiatives. We believe Jane will also do this at Kellogg by leveraging her natural talent to build networks and to connect people. Not only do we view this talent as a powerful tool in business, but we also see this as a key to weaving the Kellogg community together to make us even stronger.
We also want to sit and have a beer with Jane. Business school is just as much about being tempered by peers in the day-to-day as it is learning from professors in classrooms. Jane has stories ranging from sleeping in chicken huts in rural Fiji to discussing diabetes prevention with health officials of the Middle East. She has stories about the broken health care industry and profit margins shrinking, executives coming under new microscopes and budget cuts quickly eradicating mission. She can share about her interests ranging from running half-marathons and powder skiing to collecting Absolut Vodka ads and the dramatic arts. We want to sit with her at a TG to laugh, brainstorm, and exchange our experiences and thereby enrich all of our perspectives.
’re there.
Lastly, we’ve selected Jane because we know she will do great things with her life. We believe that after Kellogg Jane will launch into a lifetime of adventures and achievements. Jane has the unique gift to imagine avenues to create shared value and to weave together depth and conscience with profit and market share. Between her creativity and drive, she will build the business she has dreamed of and be a part of many more successful endeavors. Jane will be an alumna that is deeply proud of her Kellogg connection, and, in turn, we know Kellogg will be deeply proud of her.