Yale Essay Tips #3

Finally, Yale's Essay 3 asks you to discuss a significant challenge you face and how it shaped you as a person. The first thing you want to do here is brainstorm examples that have a clear challenge and that can be sold in star format because that's going to be the best way to tell your story here. Good examples could be, you know, overcoming some sort of professional hardship, delivering a difficult project at work, or even some sort of challenge that you faced in your extracurricular activities. You also want to make sure that there is a clear conflict or challenge here. A lot of people like to overlook it or kind of skim past it and say something like, oh, I worked hard to overcome. Overcome the challenge or not define it very clearly. You want to have a clear challenge and exactly define ways that you overcame the challenge. Then end with what you learned from the challenge and how it shaped you as a person. There's no one best answer to this Yale question, so choose the prompt that allows you to show what you want the admissions committee to learn about you and what can best complement the other aspects of your application. For more insider MBA tips, follow me.