Learn how to Answer 2024-25 Stanford MBA Essay Questions with F1GMAT's Stanford MBA Essay Guide
Essay A: What matters most to you, and why? (650 Words)
Essay B: Why Stanford? (400 Words)
Optional Question: Think about times you’ve created a positive impact, whether in professional, extracurricular, academic, or other settings. What was your impact? What made it significant to you or to others? (600 Words) (200 words – each example)
Who Should buy F1GMAT's Stanford MBA Essay Guide?
If your essay looks too bland, Stanford MBA Essay Guide will show you, with examples, on how to use the elements of Storytelling like Incorporating "The Struggle", using Emotional connectors, narrating the Journey and the use of Chronology, Vividness and Active Verbs to transform your essays.
If you are stuck in the Writing process, Stanford MBA Essay Guide will show you how to silence the Analytic Mind and overcome mental blocks.
If you feel that the Essays are not persuasive, Stanford MBA Essay Guide will teach you how to use the W-Pattern narrative, Contexts, Turning Points and "The Show Don't Tell Approach" to write a Winning MBA Essay.
If you don't have enough leadership experience, Stanford MBA Essay Guide will show you how to highlight non-obvious qualities like Trust, Focus, Listening Skills, Personal Responsibility, Humility, Self-Knowledge, and other secondary traits to prove your leadership.
If you don't know how to review your essays, Stanford MBA Essay Guide will demonstrate how to improve readability with the power of iteration, and maintain your original voice by removing review biases.
Book Details
Page Length: 386
Edition: 2025 Entering Class
Atul Jose, Founding Consultant (F1GMAT)
With over 15+ years of writing and editing 3000+ articles for F1GMAT, writing essay examples for F1GMAT's essay guides, and reviewing MBA applicants' essays, I have mastered the art of storytelling in writing.
Through F1GMAT's Stanford MBA Essay Guide, I will teach you how to capture genuine emotions for the What Matters essay, balance emotion with intent for the Why Stanford MBA Essay, and structure the essay to engage the admissions team to your story.
With Sample Essays for Stanford MBA and a comprehensive writing framework, you will learn to turn life experiences into interesting stories.
Read the Context of the 24 Sample Stanford MBA Essays Included in F1GMAT's Stanford MBA Essay Guide
F1GMAT's Stanford MBA Essay Guide:
1) Gives you a detailed Analysis of Stanford MBA Curriculum
2) Shows you how to answer Essay B in three ways (as a Career Enhancer, as an Entrepreneur and as a Career Switcher)
3) How to use ‘The Big Five Model’ to evaluate your unique personality for Essay A.
4) Includes 24 Sample Essays for inspiration (Read Preview)
- Sample Why Stanford MBA Essay (Consulting)(396 words)
- Sample Why Stanford MBA Essay (Tech Entrepreneur) (389 words)
- Sample Why Stanford MBA: Career Switching (Finance to Green Energy Consulting) (388 Words)
- Sample Why Stanford MBA: Career Switching (Private Equity to Operations) (384 Words)
- Sample Why Stanford MBA: Career Switching (Industry and Function – Oil & Gas to Consulting in Operations) (389 Words)
- Sample Why Stanford MBA: Career Switching (Design Engineer in Automobiles to Managing the Products of the Future) (391 Words)
- Sample Why Stanford MBA: Career Switching (Accounting to Private Equity) (395 Words)
- Sample Why Stanford MBA: Dual Degree (MBA and Public Policy) (380 Words)
- Sample Why Stanford MBA: Career Switching (Investment Banking to Venture Capital) (393 Words)
- Sample Why Stanford MBA: NASA Missions to Mitigating Risks of Global Flooding (393 Words)
- Sample Essay A: What matters most to you, and why? (613 Words)(Balance in Life)
- Sample Essay A: What matters most to you, and why? (645 Words)(Veterans PTSD and Healing)
- Sample Essay A: What matters most to you, and why? (649 Words)(Vulnerability and Learning)
- Sample Essay A: What matters most to you, and why? (642 Words)(Education and Investment)
- Sample Essay A: What matters most to you, and why? (602 Words)(Freedom and Commitment)
- Sample Essay A: What matters most to you, and why? (646 Words)(Savor Every Moment and Be Present)
- Sample Essay A: What matters most to you, and why? (632 Words)(Power of Restlessness)
- Sample Essay A: What matters most to you, and why? (619 Words)( The Slums, A Tragedy and the Search for a Systemic Solution)
- Sample Essay A: What matters most to you, and why? (640 Words)(Privilege to Serving the Most Vulnerable)
- Sample Essay A: What matters most to you, and why? (649 Words) (Generative AI, Bias, and Safety)
- Sample Essay A: What matters most to you, and why? (648 Words) (Truth from Interpreting Right, Left, and Centre Narratives)
- Sample Stanford MBA Positive IMPACT Optional Essay (Flexible Hours for Working Mothers)(200 Words)
- Sample Stanford MBA Positive IMPACT Optional Essay (Cross-Functional Collaboration to Mitigate a Toxic Culture) (192 Words)
- Sample Stanford MBA Positive IMPACT Optional Essay (Introduced Analytics for monitoring performance) (200 Words)
+ The Art of Storytelling
+ Leadership Narratives
+ Review Tips
+ Persuasion Strategies
+ The Secret to "unleashing" your unique voice
+ How to write about your Strengths
+ How to write about your Weaknesses
"Atul has been my favorite consultant since I started following him on LinkedIn. The Stanford What Matters Essay that requires sharing vulnerable moments from my life was not an easy draft. He shows examples of capturing authentic emotions in a narrative style that is true to an essay format. I retained quite a significant part of the shortcuts and hacks while rewriting my Stanford MBA Essays. Insightful!" - Verified Purchase
"A book on writing is not a small task. That too in the consulting market where one is inundated with quick fixes. The author explains the core principles of storytelling for MBA applications that I feel transcends to other forms of writing as well. The show don't tell approach and the W-pattern chapters reinforced some lessons I had analyzed as a budding filmmaker. The sample essays in the book are standouts. Although a lot of the examples are of profiles with numerous setbacks, I understood how emotions and themes are applied across the length of the essay to retain the thread of the story." - Verified Purchase
"This book breaks down storytelling, going through narrative concepts, characters, and setback events to analyze what makes an essay engaging and authentic. The sample essays give concrete ideas about openers, transitions, and balancing personal stories and professional accomplishments. The chapters on editing and reviewing essays are valuable." - Verified Purchase
"Such a wonderful learning tool. Just reading the chapters on capturing implicit leadership traits and on storytelling taught me a lot. It is littered with samples and anecdotes that upgraded my essay to an engaging and human story. This book is for those writers who have decent skills in writing but can’t seem to get the What Matters Essay jump off the page. Atul uses solid examples and has a thorough approach to creating meaningful narratives." - Verified Purchase
"F1GMAT's Stanford Essay Guide is a thoughtful checklist for writing a persuasive and authentic essay. I found the section on storytelling to be helpful and dispel my notion of how to transition between lines and paragraphs. No vague best writing tips here. The author explains every ploy in a narrative that we find engaging. The editing tips are the cherry on top. Deeply practical and helpful" - Verified Purchase