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

To add, Kenan Flagler is one of the top schools in the USA to have a STEM-designated full-time MBA program.

Application Deadlines for UNC Kenan Flagler MBA Essays 2022-2023

The round 1 deadline for Kenan Flagler this year is on October 10, 2022, with the final round ending on February 27, 2023 for international applicants.

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 Kenan Flagler’s full-time 2-year MBA program.

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

*Round 3 is the final deadline for international applicants.
** The Admissions Committee requires all applicants seeking a GMAT/GRE waiver to submit requests by the test waiver deadline for each round. Late submissions may be denied or moved to the next round.

Kenan Flagler MBA Essays for 2022-2023

Kenan Flagler 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

• What are your immediate career goals and how will you benefit from earning an MBA at Kenan-Flagler Business School?
• As the business world continues to evolve, circumstances can change and guide you in a different direction. Should your goals that you provided above not transpire, what other opportunities would you explore?

(500-word limit)

Essay 2

We all belong to different communities representing various aspects of who we are, including groups we belong to, where we come from, how we think, what we believe, and how we see and experience the world. The process of discovery is strengthened when people with diverse perspectives and life experiences come together to share and learn from one another, negotiate differences, and engage in diplomacy. How do you envision furthering your growth as an inclusive leader as an MBA student and as a business leader? (500-word limit)

Essay 3 (Optional)

We encourage you to tell us more about who you are so we can get to know you as a person and potential member of the Carolina community. Use this essay to convey information that you may not have otherwise been able to in the application. (200-word limit)

Optional topics:

• Personal or professional accomplishments
• Interests and passions
• Gaps in work experience or inconsistent academic performance
• Context for recommender selection
• A fun fact about yourself

Tips for Writing Kenan Flagler MBA Essay 1

Essay 1

• What are your immediate career goals and how will you benefit from earning an MBA at Kenan-Flagler Business School?
• As the business world continues to evolve, circumstances can change and guide you in a different direction. Should your goals that you provided above not transpire, what other opportunities would you explore?

(500-word limit)

To tackle the first part of this essay, identify your post-MBA goal. Be specific about the role, the company, and the industry you visualize yourself to be in right after your MBA. Having done that, it’s important to build the context of how far you’ve come in your career, the skills and strengths gained so far and how those experiences will help you make a logical progression to your short-term post-MBA goal.

To give an example, here’s how we designed the narrative for one of our clients –

We started by establishing the context of what he has done so far and highlighted some of the major achievements along the way. It’s important to be strategic about choosing the right experiences from your professional career show to show the AdCom that you already have a foundation to transition into your post-MBA short-term career goal.

Essentially, you must show a logical progression from what you have done so far to where you want to go next.

Coming back to our example – next, we brought to the fore a gap or an opportunity our client wanted to capitalize on setting the stage for elaborating on his post-MBA goal and why it matters.

And then boom! he smoothly transitions to his post MBA goal, what he specifically intends to do in that role before delving into the skills he needs to excel in that role –

Then he goes on to elaborate on the specific resources (courses, student clubs, events, and more) offered by Kenan Flagler and how those will help him with his post-MBA goals.

Once we outlined all the various resources at Kenan Flagler, we moved to the second part of the essay – Plan B. To identify plan B — should your first preferred short-term goal doesn’t work out — you must list out 1-2 alternative career options which should be again, logically connected with your experiences to date. In our client’s case, we narrowed down and identified the best options that showed how he would continue to grow in his plan B role post his MBA.

Tips for Writing Kenan Flagler MBA Essay 2

Essay 2

We all belong to different communities representing various aspects of who we are, including groups we belong to, where we come from, how we think, what we believe, and how we see and experience the world. The process of discovery is strengthened when people with diverse perspectives and life experiences come together to share and learn from one another, negotiate differences, and engage in diplomacy. How do you envision furthering your growth as an inclusive leader as an MBA student and as a business leader? (500-word limit)

Reflect and identify an example from your professional life that shows a difference you might have had with peers or team members, and how you managed to work through those differences at work.

The way to detail out the experience would be to use a simple framework such as the START framework –

START which stands for Situation, Task, Actions, Results, and Takeaways can help you elaborate 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 the key takeaways or learnings from your experiences.

Next, talk about how you plan to use the takeaways first at Kenan Flagler by outlining specific ways you would contribute to building a more inclusive environment for your fellow students and later for your coworkers in your post MBA career.

Tips for Writing Kenan Flagler MBA Essay 3

Essay 3 (Optional)

We encourage you to tell us more about who you are so we can get to know you as a person and potential member of the Carolina community. Use this essay to convey information that you may not have otherwise been able to in the application. (200-word limit)

Optional topics:

• Personal or professional accomplishments
• Interests and passions
• Gaps in work experience or inconsistent academic performance
• Context for recommender selection
• A fun fact about yourself

Firstly, we recommend you respond to this essay even though it’s an optional essay.

Secondly, choose either

1) a topic that might be of concern such as a low GPA, a career break, or why you chose a certain recommender who may not be your direct supervisor, or

2) a topic from the above list which could be a fun fact or additional achievements you haven’t mentioned elsewhere, or an interest or a hobby.

For instance, for our client, we zoomed in on his newfound passion for fitness and a second achievement related to how he contributed to his undergraduate alma mater. Alongside, we also built a narrative about how he would use these achievements to contribute at Kenan Flagler –

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