Essay 4: Why do you wish to pursue the LGO Program? What are the goals that you hope to accomplish both as a student and as a graduate of the program? Be sure to include a description of your post-LGO career plans. (250 words or fewer, limited to one page) You may copy and paste text directly from your cover letter.
Unlike the MIT Sloan MBA program, the LGO program actually requires having a clearly elaborated professional post-degree plan. In your cover letter, you need not fully elaborate on those plans because you will have Essay 4 for that purpose. Of course, you do have the option of doing so, but if you want to maximize your presentation of yourself as a whole, you might not find that to be terribly useful. Still, your cover letter should clearly be consistent with what you write in Essay 4 and feel free to have some overlap.
In the event that you actually don't have clear professional plans, please see my analysis of Stanford Essay 2, which provides a method for formulating your goals based on SWOT and gap analysis. I hope this would be unlikely because anyone who applies to LGO had better have clear ideas about what they intend to get out of the program and what they will do subsequently.
A good answer to this question would do the following:
1. Clearly state your post-LGO career plans. I would suggest that you emphasize both the specific kind of role you want to have after you graduate and your longer-term career goals. The longer-term part can be stated very conceptually.
2. Explain why the LGO program will support your post-LGO professional goals and why, otherwise, you are attracted to the program.
3. Discuss what you intend to learn through LGO. That is to say, explain your learning needs. Don't just mention a bunch of courses, but actually briefly explain what you hope to learn.
Essay 5: Why do you wish to pursue the engineering field and specialty area you have selected? (250 words or fewer, limited to one page) You may copy and paste text directly from your cover letter.
Just as with Essay 4, you might find some overlap between Essay 3 and the cover letter. I seriously doubt you have huge blocks of text to paste, but you might have a sentence of two.
Just as with Essay 4, you might find some overlap between Essay 3 and the cover letter. I seriously doubt you have huge blocks of text to paste, but you might have a sentence of two.
A good answer to this question would do the following:
1. Will demonstrate that you have fully considered the criteria for Choosing an Engineering Discipline.
2. Connects your interest in the engineering field and specialty area to your post-LGO career plan.
2. Connects your interest in the engineering field and specialty area to your post-LGO career plan.
3. Connects your interest in the engineering field and speciality area to your past academic and/or professional experience. The objective is demonstrate that you have the necessary competence to pursue this course of study. In addition, you should be able to express your interest in particular problems or aspects of your field that relate to your professional goals and/or academic interests.
4. If it is not clearly obvious why you would have the necessary competence to pursue the engineering field and speciality area you are interested in, you should fully explain why you think you would be able to do so.
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I am a graduate admissions consultant who works with clients worldwide. If you would like to arrange an initial consultation, please complete my intake form, which is publicly available on google docs here, and then send your completed form to adammarkus@gmail.com. You can also send me your resume if it is convenient for you. Please don't email me any essays, other admissions consultant's intake forms, your life story, or any long email asking for a written profile assessment. The only profiles I assess are those with people who I offer initial consultations to. See here for why. Please note that initial consultations are not offered when I have reached full capacity or when I determine that I am not a good fit with an applicant.
