EssaySnark's Strategies for the 2011-'12 MBA Admissions Essays for Northwestern Kellogg

By Essay Snark

Kellogg School of Management is about more than marketing. Kellogg offers an incredible general management education that is among the best in the world. This school is unique with their primary emphasis on teamwork – yet that doesn't mean that leadership is unimportant. How do you express both qualities in your essays?

EssaySnark's Strategy Guide for Northwestern's Kellogg MBA leads you through the process of developing the four essays, with detailed exercises and important insights for creating a strong MBA application. Extensive support is also provided for applicants to the variations of the Kellogg MBA, including the 1Y accelerated track, the MMM joint engineering degree, the part-time and Executive MBAs, and the JD/MBA. You'll learn about the current state of the school (is it slipping in the rankings?) and you'll get answers to the perennial question of “Is my GMAT score good enough?”

Find out what you can do to boost your chances for acceptance at this midwestern powerhouse of a bschool with a little help from EssaySnark.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Essay Snark
• Release date: Aug 17, 2011
• ISBN: 9781465774354

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Essay Snark is an MBA admissions consultant who is sometimes amused and often appalled by what candidates write in their MBA essays to top bschools. Essay Snark shares others' mistakes, so you don't make admissions directors laugh or, worse, want to hurl when they read your essays. If you, intrepid applicant, want to have your essay reviewed by Essay Snark (and posted anonymously - yes everyone will see it), email it to gethelpnow(at)essaysnark(dot)com. Emailing your essay means you give explicit permission for it to be posted (obvious identifying information such as your name and the name of your employer will be removed), and you release Essay Snark from any claims that may result from possible humiliation over said snarkiness. (And please, people, don't email us two days before the app deadline and expect to hear back in time.)EssaySnark has helped clients with successful applications to:Harvard HBSStanford GSBWhartonColumbiaNYU SternMIT SloanKelloggChicago BoothBerkeley HaasYale SOMUCLA AndersonMichigan RossUVA DardenDuke FuquaCornell JohnsonGeorgetown McDonoughUSC MarshallVanderbiltBabsonUT-AustinINSEADIEIESEEsadeOxfordLBSISBand many more...

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EssaySnark's Strategies for the 2011-'12 MBA Admissions Essays for

Northwestern Kellogg

A SnarkStrategies Guide

by EssaySnark

Snarkolicious Press

SMASHWORDS EDITION

version 1.01

August 17, 2011

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Table of Contents

A Few Facts

What Is Teamwork?

Where Kellogg Is At

Kellogg and the GMAT

Different MBA Options

Three Rounds and the Confusing Part I/Part II Process

The All-Important Interview

Reapplying to Kellogg

Kellogg's Essay Questions

Essay 1 – Career Goals

Essay 2 – Leadership

Essay 3 – School Fit (Teamwork)

Essay 4 – Who Are You?

What to Do Next

A Few Facts

To kick things off, here's a collection of essential facts that may help you understand what Kellogg is about.

It's a student-driven culture. Students are the first readers of incoming applications at Kellogg. Students also do a lot of the on-campus interviews (alumni conduct the off-campus ones).

Kellogg interviews over 5,000 candidates every year, and these interviews serve two purposes: They let the school identify whether or not a candidate has Kellogg-quality traits in advance, and they keep the alumni engaged in the school community.

You should apply in Round 1 if you can. And, you should request your interview (by submitting Part 1 of the application) as early as possible. A full discussion of rounds and strategies is provided later in this Guide(see details in the Interviewing section).

The decision dates listed for each round on the Kellogg website are the final dates by which you absolutely will hear back from the school. However, the admissions team starts releasing decisions almost two months earlier than that – so, you could get a decision sometime in November for Round 1.

Kellogg does not accept the GRE for admission to any of its MBA programs. If you're applying to the JD/MBA, you can take just the GMAT and not worry about the LSAT.

Kellogg will not release decisions over the telephone based on confidentiality policies. That means that you cannot find out your decision by calling them. However, they likely will call you when they have accepted you. You can also find out your