What Booth Looks For in Its Deferred MBA Applicants

If you're a college senior applying to Booth Scholars, Booth's deferred MBA program, your application goes in with no full-time job on the resume. So the real question is what Booth's admissions office reads instead. I read hundreds of applications for the Chicago Booth admissions office. This summer I sat down with Booth's admissions team, and we talked about where Booth Scholars stands now: how big it is, who it admits, and what has changed. In 45 minutes I'll walk you through how Booth reads an application, and what that means when your experience comes from college. Three things you'll walk away with: 1. What Booth screens for first, and how to show it without work experience 2. Why Booth weighs your activities so heavily, and why depth beats a long list 3. An honest assessment of who Booth Scholars is looking for