The Harvard Essay Package covers the following essay topics:

#1.Please describe your most significant leadership experience. Feel free to draw upon work experiences, extracurricular activities or your personal interactions, describing a period of formal or informal leadership. Please focus less on the specific situation and more on what caused you to be effective (300 words).

#2.What are your career aspirations and why? How will you get there? (300 word limit)

#3. What do you enjoy and what do you dislike about your current job? Why? (300 word limit)

#4. What specifically have you done to help a group or organization change? (300 words)  

#5. Recognizing that successful leaders are able to learn from failure, describe a situation in which you failed. (100 words) Why did you fail? (200 words)  

#6. Describe your three most substantial accomplishments.

#7. Describe a teach/mentor you admire and explain why you admire him/her. How have you incorporated what you have learned from this individual in your life? (400 word limit)  

#7. What could you do to be an even more effective member of your organization? (200 word)

#8. Optional essay: Is that any other information that you believe would be helpful to the board in understanding you better and in considering your applications? Please be concise.