MIT Sloan MBA Essays & Deadlines for 2014-15 (Class of 2017)

MIT Sloan School of Management released its essays and deadlines for 2014-15. Sloan reversed a growing trend among business schools of reducing total word count of essays. Sloan’s word count increased from 1,000 words to 1,250 words. In what appeared to be a subtle dig at other schools, MIT Sloan’s Admissions Director said, “We do not believe in only using numbers and standardized test scores to build our incoming classes.” The Admissions Director also anticipates that the application would go live by the end of July.

MIT Sloan MBA Essays 2014-15 (Class of 2017)

Essay 1: The mission of the MIT Sloan School of Management is to develop principled, innovative leaders who improve the world and to generate ideas that advance management practice. Discuss how you will contribute toward advancing the mission based on examples from your past work and activities. (500 words or fewer)

Essay 2: Write a professional letter of recommendation on behalf of yourself. Answer the following questions as if you were your most recent supervisor recommending yourself for admission to the MIT Sloan MBA Program: (750 words or fewer)

• How long and in what capacity have you known the applicant?
• How does the applicant stand out from others in a similar capacity?
• Please give an example of the applicant’s impact on a person, group or organization.
• Please give a representative example of how the applicant interacts with other people.
• Which of the applicant’s personal or professional characteristics would you change?
• Please tell us anything else you think we should know about this applicant.

Optional Information: The Admissions Committee invites you to share anything else you would like us to know about you, in any format. If you choose to use a multimedia format, please host the information on a website and provide us the URL.

To view the essays on MIT’s website, click here.

MIT Sloan MBA Deadlines 2014-15 (Class of 2017)

Round	2014-15	2013-14
One	23 September 2014	24 September 2013
Two	08 January 2015	07 January 2014

The MIT Sloan LGO Program Deadline for 2014-15 is December 15, 2014.

The deadlines above are for 3:00 PM Eastern Time. To view the deadlines on MIT’s website, click here.

MIT Sloan MBA Recommendations 2014-15 (Class of 2017)

MIT continues to require two professional letters of recommendation. These letters cannot exceed two pages and can be in letter form or question/answer form. The questions that recommenders have to answer are the same that candidates have to answer in Essay 2 above i.e.,

• How long and in what capacity have you known the applicant?
• How does the applicant stand out from others in a similar capacity?
• Please give an example of the applicant’s impact on a person, group or organization.
• Please give a representative example of how the applicant interacts with other people.
• Which of the applicant’s personal or professional characteristics would you change?
• Please tell us anything else you think we should know about this applicant.