{"id":22629,"date":"2016-11-22T10:00:57","date_gmt":"2016-11-22T15:00:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.mbamission.com\/blog\/?p=22629"},"modified":"2022-01-27T09:45:10","modified_gmt":"2022-01-27T14:45:10","slug":"mission-admission-do-not-neglect-short-answer-questions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mbamission.com\/blog\/mission-admission-do-not-neglect-short-answer-questions\/","title":{"rendered":"Mission Admission: Do Not Neglect Short Answer Questions"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-19309 alignright\" src=\"https:\/\/www.mbamission.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/macbook-926192_1280-300x197.jpg\" alt=\"Mission Admission: Do Not Neglect Short Answer Questions - mbaMission\" width=\"300\" height=\"197\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.mbamission.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/macbook-926192_1280-300x197.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.mbamission.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/macbook-926192_1280-1024x672.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.mbamission.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/macbook-926192_1280.jpg 1280w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/>Mission Admission is a series of MBA admission tips; a new one is posted each Tuesday.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Many MBA candidates will work painstakingly on their essays, prepare rigorously for their interviews, and endlessly contemplate their choice of recommenders. However, applicants tend to leave the short answer section of their applications to the last moment, and some simply paste in information from their resumes or from their applications to other schools.<\/p>\n<p>The short answer sections\u2014meaning the actual questions within the application about your work and community experiences, hobbies, etc.\u2014should definitely\u00a0<em>not\u00a0<\/em>be ignored or hastily completed at the last minute. They should be approached with the same spirit of diligence that you bring to all the other aspects of your application(s). We advise candidates to refrain from just pasting bullet points from their resumes into the short answer section and to instead take time to truly contemplate the questions that are asked and write out the answers in full sentence form. Further, bullets from a resume often lack the necessary context, so they rarely make effective answers for this portion of the application. Although the information conveyed in the short answer section is important, we believe that what is really crucial is that candidates give care and thought to\u00a0<em>all<\/em>\u00a0aspects of their applications.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mission Admission is a series of MBA admission tips; a new one is posted each Tuesday. Many MBA candidates will work painstakingly on their essays, prepare rigorously for their interviews, and endlessly contemplate their choice of recommenders. 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