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&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;By EssaySnark&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img style=&quot;float: right; border: 0pt none; margin-top: 10px; margin-bottom: 10px;&quot; src=&quot;http://www.vault.com/VCM/sponsors/essaysnark%20logo.png&quot; alt=&quot;&quot; width=&quot;200&quot; height=&quot;49&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Last time, we walked you through an exercise of how to construct your  career goals for your applications to business school. Those  instructions&amp;mdash;and the short-term and long-term goals you identified for  yourself through that process&amp;mdash;are perfectly suitable for an application  to most of the best MBA programs.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Why do we say &amp;ldquo;most of&amp;rdquo;?&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;There are some schools that do not even ask about career goals, or at  least, not directly. Consider Harvard&#39;s current incarnation of the  career goals question: &amp;ldquo;Why do you want an MBA?&amp;rdquo;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Harvard really does expect you to provide a fairly traditional  &amp;ldquo;career goals&amp;rdquo; response to this. You can present those short-term and  long-term goals that you have already developed, but the big difference  with why those goals may not be quite enough for Harvard (or for  Stanford) is that they might sound a little &lt;em&gt;basic.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;strong&gt; READ MORE&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

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