Duke- 3-part short essay, each with 500 CHARACTERS limit (approximately 100 words)

1. Why are you pursuing the MMS degree at this stage in your professional development?

As an accounting major student, I can calculate financial data and prepare financial statements. But to realize my career goal as a consultant, I need to know more about how to transform financial information into actionable insights to make wise business decisions. During my internships, I witnessed the immaturity of the Chinese financial market, leaving me unsolved puzzles of the privately-raised bond for small and medium enterprises. MMS will help solve my puzzles and realize my career goal.

2. What are your immediate career goals after completing the MMS program?【I really don't know what else I could write here...although I still have more than 200 characters left】

I planned to be a consultant and work with a consulting company. I would be ready to help customers evaluate their business plans and develop a market strategy by doing market research and analyzing massive amounts of data.

3. Life is full of uncertainties, and plans and circumstances can change. As a result, navigating a career requires you to be adaptable. Should the immediate goals that you provided above not materialize, what alternative directions have you considered?

I will try to find a job which will help me earn my own living and give me time to land on a more desirable job. I may try to be a temporary piano teacher to support my living and keep building up networking in the meantime to find a my desired job. If I have to go back to work in China, I will still try to be in an international company. The worst possibility is that I will retake my current job as an oral English teacher. This is a well-paid job so I can at least earn money for a MBA degree.

Shiyun, I'd like to share my thoughts on your essay.

1. Why are you pursuing the MMS degree at this stage in your professional development?

- statements. Butand to realize my career goal as a consultant,
- I need to know more about how to transformacquire financial information
- into actionableand viable insights to make wise business decisions.
- MMS will helpequip me insolvesolving my puzzles and realize my career goal.

2. What are your immediate career goals after completing the MMS program? 【I really don't know what else I could write here...although I still have more than 200 characters left】

- I plannedenvision myself to be a consultant
- and work with a reputable consulting company and be able to exercise what I learned from MMS into life skills that will hopefully render valuable insights to the financial sector. .

- research and analyzingmassive massive amounts of data.

3. Life is full of uncertainties, and plans and circumstances can change. As a result, navigating a career requires you to be adaptable. Should the immediate goals that you provided above not materialize, what alternative directions have you considered?

- I will try to find a job whichthat will help
- me earnmake my own living
- and give me time to land on a more desirable job.
- It may try to be a temporary piano
- The worst possibility is that I will retake my current job as an oral English teacher. This is a well-paid job so I can at least earn money for a MBA degree.(this sentence is not necessary)

There you have it Shiyun, I hope my remarks helped.

You may want to reconsider the first one. Admissions committees don't necessarily care that you find a phenomenon an interesting puzzle to solve. They want to hear why they should admit you over another equally qualified applicant. "This stuff is really interesting to me" is not high on their list of reasons.

Also, there has to be some layer of detail you can add to "consultant." Consult about what, exactly?

For the third question, you are not quite hitting the right "spin" on it. You're being very practical, but it is not meant to be a practical question. I think they want to hear what your alternative career goal might be. So if you almost went to get your phd in Economics, say, talk about that. But "I'll just get a decent job somewhere" is not the kind of thing they want to hear.