Essays

Please summarize your primary area of professional expertise or knowledge. What do you do, and what are you known for? 

(150 word limit)

• Please briefly list how you have demonstrated strong quantitative abilities or plan to strengthen your quantitative abilities.
• If you have ever been subject to academic discipline, placed on probation, suspended, or required to withdraw from any college or university, please explain. An affirmative response to this question does not disqualify you from admission.
• For each of your recommenders, please list their name, company, the dates you worked with the person, and the context of your professional relationship.
• Please provide an account of any gaps in your employment since earning your undergraduate degree. If you are not employed full time, please explain your current employment situation and your career search plans.
• List up to five significant community and professional organizations and extracurricular activities in which you have been involved during or after university studies.
• If you are applying from outside the Bay Area, please explain your plans to attend classes on campus. Please include your employment plans and whether you intend to relocate or commute.

You are encouraged to use bullet points where appropriate. 

We invite you to help us better understand the context of your opportunities and achievements.

1. If you were raised in one of the following household types, please indicate.

• Raised by a single parent
• Raised by an extended family member (grandparent, aunt/uncle, niece/nephew, cousin)
• Raised in a multi-generational home
• Raised in foster care

2. Are you responsible for providing significant and continuing financial or supervisory support for someone else? Please indicate below:

• Child
• Spouse
• Sibling
• Parent
• Extended family member (grandparent, aunt/uncle, niece/nephew, cousin)
• Other

You are welcome to use this opportunity to expand on hardships or unusual life circumstances that may help us understand the context of your opportunities, achievements, and impact.

Finally, you will have the opportunity to convey relevant information not addressed elsewhere in your application. This may include an explanation of academic aberrations, supplemental coursework, etc.