How to Cover Your OCD in School Application

[STAGE DOOR]

Here is a question I am asking all my friends. This should not take too long, but I have to get ideas for essays for several applications to business schools I am applying to and I need them by Monday. This should not take too long as I am not asking for you to write out an essay but just to throw out some ideas and thoughts that I can use to work in my essays.

 

I am applying for admission to business schools to get a MBA (Masters in Business Administration) degree.

 

Now my OCD hindered me so much that I have a very poor undergraduate record and a terrible work history. (I have been taking business classes, including one upper level MBA course and I have done very well—now that I mastered my OCD.)

 

I need to cover for my past failures by stressing I had a disability but at the same time I want to show them I am very able not only to handle the course load, but to add something unique to the business school.

 

Business schools, unlike other academic departments, not only look at scholastic ability but how well the person will do when they enter the business world after graduation, as this last factor greatly affects the school’s ranking.

 

So I do not want to give them a sob story but I want to give a brief reason for my past record but I want to show my strengths but showing that my having this disability and the subsequent overcoming it has given me qualities that make me qualified to be successful both in school and in the business world.

 

I am speaking about qualities such as: teamwork, effective communication/interaction, self-directed ambition/a “go-getter”, creativity, perseverance, etc.

 

What I would like from you is any ideas on how I can show how my disability has given me strengths that I can apply to my academic and career goals.

 

Once again you do not have to write up an essay but just throw out ideas—even just kernels of ideas, or even words that come to mind. I can flesh them out later.

 

Thanks!