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Essay Question: The mission of the Yale School of Management is to educate leaders for business and society. In this context, tell us your career goals and your plans for achieving them. Please be specific. Describe how your previous experience will help you to reach your goals. (1,000 words)
I grew up in a small suburb of Bangalore, and had an engineer father and a teacher mother. It was a family I felt fortunate to be a part of because a focus on being well-rounded and stress on academics was gently encouraged in my home from the beginning. I was encouraged to be independent in my thoughts and take responsibility for the choices I make.
When I was 9, my father moved us to Riyadh, and we stayed there for the next 5 years. Riyadh was the place where I started to become aware of my society - of things happening around me. I took for granted all the material amenities that come easily to such a place. I also took for granted that my father could not vote to change the government, or that our social freedom was limited. Coming back to India after 5 years was, therefore, a sea-change for me in terms of personal experiences. I realized, for example, that it was safe to criticize the government if you want to do so, but also that the many material things I had taken for granted in Riyadh were luxuries here, and not only did people not have these things, they didn’t even know about them. 我要提问
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