For the 2025 entering class, Yale has offered applicants the option to choose from three prompts: A commitment Essay, an Essay about Community and how you found meaning from it, and an Essay about the most significant challenge you faced and how it shaped you as a person.
1) Commitment Essay: Describe the biggest commitment you have ever made. Why is this Commitment meaningful to you, and what actions have you taken to support it?
2) Community Essay: Describe the community that has been most meaningful to you. What is the most valuable thing you have gained from being a part of this community and what is the most important thing you have contributed to this community?
3) Significant Challenge Essay: Describe the most significant challenge you have faced. How have you confronted this challenge, and how has it shaped you as a person?
The Video Essay is designed to test your ability to think on your feet.
- Sample Yale SOM Commitment MBA Essay: Business Development (Mobile Phone Start-Up)(474 Words)
- Sample Yale SOM Commitment MBA Essay: Investment Banking and Teaching (499 Words)
- Sample Yale SOM Commitment MBA Essay: Consulting and Listening (413 Words)
- Sample Yale SOM Commitment MBA Essay: Technology and Commitment to Learning (438 Words)
- Sample Yale SOM Commitment MBA Essay: Marketing (489 Words)
- Sample Yale SOM Commitment MBA Essay: Entrepreneurship (497 Words)
- Sample Yale SOM Commitment MBA Essay: IMPACT Investing (479 Words)
- Sample Yale SOM Commitment MBA Essay: Oil & Gas to Clean Energy (Consulting) (435 Words)
- Sample Yale SOM Commitment MBA Essay: Angel Investing and Rural Entrepreneurship (490 Words)
For the Significant Challenge MBA Essay, we have included three samples:
- Sample Yale SOM Significant Challenge MBA Essay: Scarcity to Growth Mindset (486 Words)
- Sample Yale SOM Significant Challenge MBA Essay: COVID-19 Vaccine Development (498 Words)
- Sample Yale SOM Significant Challenge MBA Essay: Leadership in Startup to Leadership in Fortune 500 (496 Words)
For the Community Essay, we have included three samples:
- Sample Yale SOM Community MBA Essay: Mental Health and Fitness Community(498 Words)
- Sample Yale SOM Community MBA Essay: Neighborhood as a Community (496 Words)
- Sample Yale SOM Community MBA Essay: Library as a Community Space (489 Words)
We show how to use emotional connectors, use journey narration, and struggles to connect with the reviewer.
We also demonstrate the power of Active Verbs, Vividness, and Chronology to keep the reader on edge.
If you are facing a writer's block or don’t feel confident in writing an essay, Yale SOM MBA Essay Guide will give you tips on silencing the analytical mind.
If you feel that your Essays are not persuasive, Yale SOM 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, Yale SOM MBA Essay Guide includes tips on highlighting secondary leadership traits like Listening Skills, Personal Responsibility, and Self-awareness to prove your potential.
If you don't know how to review your essays, Yale SOM MBA Essay Guide includes an exhaustive list of Editing and Reviewing tips, with special emphasis on removing review biases.
Book Details
Entering Class: 2025
Page Length: 325
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