For the 2025-26 admissions cycle, the Chicago Booth MBA program has two required questions:
1) How will a Booth MBA help you achieve your immediate and long-term post-MBA career goals? (250 word minimum)
Chicago Booth appreciates the individual experiences and perspectives that all of our students bring to our community. This respect for different viewpoints creates an open-minded environment that supports curiosity, inspires us to think more broadly, and take risks. At Booth, community is about collaborative thinking and learning from one another to better ourselves, our ideas, and the world around us.
2) The photos below represent some of the values described above that we uphold at Chicago Booth. Select one and share how it resonates with one of your own values. (250 word minimum)
F1GMAT's Booth MBA Essay Guide includes:
1) Demonstrates how to write the Immediate and Long-term goals with Booth MBA (6 Sample Essays)
First Example: Booth MBA Short-Term and Long-Term Goals Essay (Oil & Gas, Reservoir Engineer)
- Sample Booth Goals Essay #1: Oil & Gas to Consulting (729 Words)
Second Example: Booth MBA Short-Term and Long-Term Goals Essay (Marketing, Non-Profit)
- Sample Booth Goals Essay #2: Marketing in Non-Profit (669 Words)
Third Example: Boutique PE Firms to Global PE Deals
- Sample Booth MBA Goals Essay #3: Boutique PE to Large PE Deals (630 Words)
Fourth Example: Investment Banker to Venture Capital
- Sample Booth MBA Goals Essay #4– VC funds for Small Farms in Africa (556 Words)
Fifth Example: Technology (Product Development – Marine Life Conservation)
- Sample Booth MBA Goals Essay #5: Technology (Marine Life Conservation and Restoration) (719 Words)
Sixth Example: Economic Development to IMPACT Investing
- Sample Booth Goals Essay #6: (Create a Sustainable community around Entrepreneurship) (822 Words)
2) Demonstrates how to write the Visual Essay (6 Sample Essays)
- Chicago Booth MBA Visual Essay: Father’s Restaurant Business and Leadership (627 Words)
- Chicago Booth MBA Visual Essay: Challenging Status Quo and Learning from Each Other (794 Words)
- Chicago Booth MBA Visual Essay: Innovation in Rural Healthcare (660 Words)
- Chicago Booth MBA Visual Essay: Lifting Communities Out of Poverty (Financial Intervention) (682 Words)
- Chicago Booth MBA Visual Essay: Conservationism (460 Words)
- Chicago Booth MBA Visual Essay: Thinking for Oneself and Problem Solving in Business (641 Words)
3) Provides context on what makes Chicago Booth MBA unique (Extensive Analysis)
- LEAD (Leadership Effectiveness and Development)
- Labs
- Student Clubs
- Random Walks
- Class Profile
- Multiculturalism
- Curriculum
- New Venture Challenge
- Professors
- International Experience
- Chicago Booth Alumni
- Post-MBA Opportunities
- Chicago and Booth’s Intellectual openness
Who Should Buy Chicago Booth MBA Essay Guide?
If your essay looks too bland, Booth MBA Essay Guide will show you, with examples, on how to use the elements of Storytelling like Incorporating "The Struggle," Using Emotional connectors, narrating the Journey and the use of Chronology, Vividness and Active Verbs to transform your essays.
If you are stuck in the Writing process, Booth MBA Essay Guide will show you how to silence the Analytic Mind and overcome mental blocks.
If you feel that the essays are not persuasive, Booth 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, Booth MBA Essay Guide will show you how to highlight non-obvious qualities like Trust, Focus, Listening Skills, Personal Responsibility, Humility, Self-Knowledge, and other secondary traits to prove your leadership.
If you don't know how to review your essays, Booth MBA Essay Guide will demonstrate how to improve readability with the power of iteration and maintain your original voice by removing review biases.
If you want to see how experts write Essays, read our Sample Essays and kick-start your writing process
Pages: 428
Entering Class: 2026
" Atul masterfully maps the curriculum from Booth's vast collection of electives and function-oriented themes for the goals essay. I found inspiration from unlikely profiles cited in the essay guide, particularly the social impact to the marketing career transition, which was unlike any motivation I had read. " - Chicago Booth MBA
" It was quite a trip to write from my heart. Eventually, I toned it down, but the samples helped me explore a side of my story that I didn't want to share. Perhaps that helped me get an interview invite. " - Chicago Booth MBA
" As a technologist and male in a competitive application pool, I had to break from the stereotype. The example of an applicant - his journey from a passionate programmer to a product person to an ambitious goal of leveraging technology to conserve nature- had many parallels to my journey. I recommend this essay guide to any applicant struggling to write in their voice. " - Chicago Booth MBA
" Although I am still a step behind, the narrative and the specific way with which the MBA curriculum is quoted and connected with the goals helped me understand how to write a goals essay. " - Chicago Booth MBA
"Non-profit candidates like me are often met with a bit of ridicule for applying to a quant-heavy program like Booth. I decided to do an MBA to transition into IMPACT investing. Thankfully the essay guide had a sample that captured a similar story, although the person worked in South America. I also found the transformation matrix useful as my life had several such moments that offered a template to craft the goals." - Chicago Booth MBA