Please describe your career progression to date, highlighting leadership and management positions and reasons for changing employers or career paths, if applicable. How will your professional experience when combined with an MBA degree assist you in achieving your short-term and long-term career goals? (1,200 word maximum)

Self-Evaluation Essay Two (Required)

What obstacles or major challenges have you overcome to achieve your goals? How do these life experiences distinguish you from other applicants? (800 word maximum)

Self-Evaluation Essay Three (Required)

Study groups have been an integral part of UNC Kenan-Flagler's management development philosophy for more than 25 years. We believe that learning to work in teams is a primary vehicle for success in today's workplace, in which teamwork, diversity, and mutual support are critical. Each first-year MBA student is assigned to a study group of four or five people. First-year study groups are carefully constructed to maximize demographic and cultural diversity, while assuring a variety of interests and work experiences.

At the end of year one, UNC MBA teammates evaluate each other using a formal assessment instrument. Some of the specific areas covered in their evaluations are:

• Leadership
• Reliability, Dependability
• Flexibility
• On-time delivery
• Cooperation
• Openness to other ideas
• Quality of work delivered
• Communication ability
• Willingness to step out of area of expertise
• Contribution to team's success

Please select two people that have worked with you as part of a team. Ask each of them to provide you with an honest and detailed assessment of you as a teammate, especially of your performance in the areas mentioned above.

In 1,000 words or less, please share your personal reflections on the feedback you received. How will you benefit from what you have learned? How will your UNC MBA teammates benefit?

Optional Essay One

Please tell us about any international experience you have had, either living or working abroad, and how it has impacted your global perspective. (400 word maximum)

Optional Essay Two

Kenan-Flagler students have chosen to concentrate in a variety of fields as undergraduate students, and we welcome applications from students who have majored in non-business fields. To prepare for the quantitative dimension of the MBA Program, we strongly recommend that all enrolling students have some background in calculus, microeconomics, statistics and financial accounting. If you have not studied these subjects in college or university, please explain how you have demonstrated proficiency in these areas. If you have not had exposure to these subjects, please let us know your plan for preparing yourself for UNC Kenan-Flagler. (400 word maximum)

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