Michigan Ross Essay Tips #2

So here's how you want to answer Ross Essay 2, which is geared towards understanding what makes you stand out beyond your academic and work experience. So they ask for things like what makes you unique, an example of a personal challenge that you've overcome, or how you've made a difference in your community or with an individual. So things like volunteer work, mentorship stories, personal stories are going to work great here. The first thing that you want to do is choose a great story. You want to think about what else you're already sharing in your application and choose something that adds additional value and that shows why you'd be a good addition to the diversity of the Ross class. Then what you want to do is filter those stories for ones that can be told in star format. That's situation, task, action, result, because this is going to be the best way to tell these stories. Then finally, what you want to do is choose the prompt that best connects with your story. So don't choose the prompt first. Choose the story first and then connect it to the prompt. Once you've done that, make sure that you use an intro and conclusion that actually connect to the language of the prompt.