Healthcare Services Degrees

Prompt: Tell us about your personal history and family background and how they have influenced your intellectual and personal development. What unique personal qualities or life experiences might distinguish you from other applicants? How will your background, values, and non work-related activities enhance the experience […]

Prompt: Describe a situation where you introduced and/or managed change in an organization. How do you expect the Sloan School to further the development of these attributes? Five months ago, I had a unique opportunity to apply and refine my leadership and communications skills. I […]

Prompt: Your background, experiences, and values will enhance the diversity of Kellogg’s student body. How?. During my senior year in college, my father was diagnosed with terminal skin cancer. Like most cancer patients, he spent the majority of his time in the hospital; he often […]

Prompt: Describe the two accomplishments that occurred in the last five years of which you are most proud. Strategic Advisory for American Savings Bank In January 1994,my group was engaged by Robert Bass’ Keystone Partners to evaluate their investment in California company, the culminating point […]

Prompt: Describe the characteristics of an exceptional manager by examining someone whom you have observed or with whom you have worked. Illustrate how his or her management style has influenced you. In management consulting, strong analytical skills are valued as much as, if not more […]

Prompt: Describe how your experiences, both professional and personal, have led to your decision to pursue an MBA at the Wharton school this year. How does this decision relate to your career goals for the future?] Throughout my life I have observed two distinct career […]

Prompt: What one nonprofessional activity do you find most inspirational and why? A little over two years ago I began tutoring high school students in several types of mathematics, including preparation for the S.A.T. Test. While I did this initially to earn money, I have […]

The rapidly growing elderly population is becoming a serious social problem in many countries. Some countries have been successful at finding solutions for this problem but others have not. Japan is one of the latter countries. Although Japan has one of the highest life expectancy […]

At the age of twelve, I was deported to Ireland — by my mother. She thought the change of scenery, and some time spent with her side of the family, would be good for my overly inquisitive nature. I quickly translated her act of banishment […]

Kibbutz. I liked that word as a child because the sounds of its letters were fun to hear and pronounce. I used the word frequently, because I grew up in Israel, where the kibbutz lifestyle is common. I was grateful for my good upbringing and […]

Raised with the Jesuit notion of service to mankind, I have always been interested in society’s injustices and problems. During my undergraduate studies, I was drawn to the political science courses, but I never understood how I could apply the knowledge I gained in them […]

“To be nobody but yourself–in a world which is doing its best, night and day, to make you everybody else–means to fight the hardest battle which any human being can fight; and never stop fighting.” When I first read this passage by E.E. Cummings, I […]

I remember the day as if it were yesterday. During my second year in college, I was attempting to transmit a group of characters comprising my name from one computer to another. I connected the computers using RS-232 cable, wrote the necessary programs and executed […]

I have an excellent job with tremendous advancement opportunities. At my well-paid job at a prestigious investment bank on Wall Street, my computer science and analytical skills are recognized and lauded. Moreover, I enjoy intellectual interactions with my Ph.D. colleagues, have many friends, and am […]

The late afternoon sunshine seeped through the cracks in the garage as I situated myself among piles of boxes, old clothes and a heap of power-tools. It was my sophomore year in college at UC — San Diego, and I had come home for the […]

Excited by the idea of becoming a scientist since I was a small child, my interests in pursuing graduate studies intensified during my undergraduate education and my research experience. Rather than discouraging me with the tremendous amount of work and demands for creativity, my college […]

Little Lessons I’ve learned on my way Lesson 1: Don’t Lose Your Path In his poem, The Road Not Taken, Robert Frost wrote, “Two roads diverge in the woods, and I took the one least traveled by/ And that has made all the difference.” In […]

During my senior year at Purdue University, I made a decision that has impacted the entire course of my education. While my classmates were making definite decisions about their career paths, I chose to implement a five-year plan of development and growth for myself. I […]