Emory Goizueta Business School has released its MBA essays for 2022-2023 intake along with the application deadlines for its 3 rounds.

Application Deadlines for Emory 2022-2023

The round 1 deadline for Emory this year is on October 5, 2022, with the final round ending on March 22, 2023. 

At MBAEssayNation, we highly recommend you submit your applications either in Round 1 (most advisable) or Round 2 (second best option) to maximize your chances of gaining admission to Emory’s full-time 2-year MBA program.

Check out Emory’s deadlines along with the final admission notification dates –

Emory MBA Essays for 2022-2023

Emory has retained the same set of essays from last year.

The short word limits for the essays require you to strike a fine balance between conciseness and clarity.

Essay 1

Post-MBA Career Goals

Define your short-term post-MBA career goals. How are your professional strengths, past experience, and personal attributes aligned with these goals? (300-word limit)

Essay 2

Leadership in Business

The business school is named for Roberto C. Goizueta, former Chairman and CEO of The Coca-Cola Company, who led the organization for 16 years, extending its global reach, quadrupling consumption, building brand responsibility, creating unprecedented shareholder wealth, and demonstrating a commitment to values and positive impact on society. Roberto Goizueta’s core values guide us in educating principled leaders to have a positive influence on business and society. Provide a specific example of your leadership and explain what you learned about yourself through the experience. (300-word limit)

Essay 3

Why Goizueta?

What are you looking to gain from Goizueta’s MBA degree and how do you see yourself contributing to the Goizueta community? (200-word limit)

Essay 4

Optional Essay

If there is an important part of your story missing from your MBA application (e.g., unexplained gaps in work experience, choice of recommenders, academic probation issues), please use this section to provide a brief explanation. Please use bullets if you need to address more than one topic.(200-word limit)

Video Essay

Telling your story in the written essays is an important part of the application process, but we also want to hear you tell some of your story. The video essay lets every candidate talk to the MBA Admissions Committee and we enjoy getting to know you through the “small talk” questions.

Tips for Writing Emory MBA Essay 1

Essay 1

Post-MBA Career Goals

Define your short-term post-MBA career goals. How are your professional strengths, past experience, and personal attributes aligned with these goals? (300-word limit)

The aim of this particular essay question is to know whether your post-MBA career goals are practical they’re realistic and they are achievable and more importantly do they have a logical connection with what you have done so far in your career. You have to get this part right before you approach the other parts of this essay prompt.

Make sure your post-MBA goal is highly specific, right down to the position and the companies you see yourself working with. Once you have zoomed in on your post-MBA goal, then reflect on how your professional experiences to date will help you transition to your short-term goal. Essentially, identify what experiences from your professional career show that you already have a foundation to transition into your post-MBA short-term career goal. It’s important to show a logical progression from what you have done so far to where you want to go next.

The next step of course would be to identify the professional strengths you have gained. By professional strengths, we mean soft skills and hard skills that would help you succeed in your short-term role.

And finally, identify some of the personal attributes you have, either innate or developed, that will help you excel in your post-MBA goals, such as taking initiative, critical thinking, being a great team player, good at collaborating with others, so on and so forth, that show you can succeed in your short-term post-MBA career. These are the elements the adcom really hopes to see with this essay prompt.

For example, if you have been in sales and your short-term goal is to be a brand manager, then talk about the experiences that show how well you understand your market and the various offerings which will help you transition to brand management as well. Additionally, you could talk about strong communication skills and domain understanding while highlighting attributes such as resourcefulness or taking the initiative to reinforce you have what it takes to succeed in your short-term role.

Tips for Writing Emory MBA Essay 2

Essay 2

Leadership in Business

The business school is named for Roberto C. Goizueta, former Chairman and CEO of The Coca-Cola Company, who led the organization for 16 years, extending its global reach, quadrupling consumption, building brand responsibility, creating unprecedented shareholder wealth, and demonstrating a commitment to values and positive impact on society. Roberto Goizueta’s core values guide us in educating principled leaders to have a positive influence on business and society. Provide a specific example of your leadership and explain what you learned about yourself through the experience. (300 word limit)

The best way to respond to this essay is to identify a strong leadership example from your professional life. Example could be say when you mentored underperforming team members or when you pushed for a new initiative that would help your colleagues or your organization and so on.

The way to respond to this question is to use a simple framework such as the START framework –

START which stands for Situation, Task, Actions, Results, and Takeaways can help you elaborate on each achievement by explaining the context, highlighting the challenges, illuminating the specific role you played, outlining the actions you took, emphasizing the results you’d achieved, and your key takeaways or learnings from your experiences.

Tips for Writing Emory MBA Essay 3

Essay 3

Why Goizueta?

What are you looking to gain from Goizueta’s MBA degree and how do you see yourself contributing to the Goizueta community? (200 word limit)

Talk about what you find most appealing about Emory’s MBA – it could be specific courses, student clubs and associations, certain events and other resources offered by Goizueta Business School.

Make sure any resources that you mention will hep prepare you for your post-MBA career goal. Additionally, talk about how you plan to contribute to the school. You could draw upon both your professional and personal strengths and interests to elaborate on your contributions to enhance the experience of your peer community at Emory.

Keep it as specific as possible to help the AdCom understand you have researched the school well and know how exactly you plan to tap into its resources to plug any skill weaknesses that you may have (that might impede transitioning to your post-MBA goal) as well the strengths you will bank on to enrich the experience of your fellow students.

Tips for Writing Emory MBA Essay 4

Essay 4

Optional Essay

If there is an important part of your story missing from your MBA application (e.g., unexplained gaps in work experience, choice of recommenders, academic probation issues), please use this section to provide a brief explanation. Please use bullets if you need to address more than one topic. (200-word limit)

You could either choose to include achievements that you didn’t find space to include elsewhere in your application or use this essay to delve a bit more into failures or certain aspects of your profile (such as a low GPA, a dubious career change, or an employment gap) that you feel might work against you or needs a bit more clarity for the AdCom to understand the context.

Tips for Emory MBA Video Essay

Video Essay

Telling your story in the written essays is an important part of the application process, but we also want to hear you tell some of your story. The video essay lets every candidate talk to the MBA Admissions Committee and we enjoy getting to know you through the “small talk” questions.

Check out our blog post on how to prepare for video essays – it has everything you need to get started with prepping for your video essay.

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