What Is Your Application Strategy?
How can you prepare and execute your best application to Booth? In order to be most effective when applying, you should have a strategy in place that leverages each aspect of your application to tell your story. Remember that the application process is not just about revealing your accomplishments but how you think and strategize your messages. Much of what business school is about is critical thinking and employing analytics to come up with the best solutions. Applications try to draw those things out, so our evaluation focuses equal attention on what you reveal and how you reveal it.
Understanding Your Story
Clearly every applicant has a unique background and a distinct motivation for wanting to go to business school. So before you begin putting together the pieces of your application, it’s important for you to understand your story and determine the messages that you want to communicate to the Admissions Committee. What is it that you want the Admissions Committee to know about you?
Telling Your Story
After you’ve identified the core messages that you want to communicate, now it’s time to determine how you are going to use the different aspects of your application to convey those messages. Don’t look at your academic history, extracurricular activities, test scores, resume, letters of recommendation and essays as separate pieces of the application – they are all connected to one another. You should leverage each piece to share a different part of your story.
As a result, we should learn something new about you from each aspect of your application. This is something that you should definitely keep in mind when selecting the people who will write your letters of recommendation and when you’re drafting your essays.
