每周一MBA生涯公益解惑日：生涯顾问心中M7 Essay题目“金酸莓奖”
原文出自：
http://mbacareerfitter.blogspot.com/2021/12/mbam7-essay_22.html
即便是国际上，也从来没看过有单位根据Essay题目的出题逻辑来进行评选。
当然Essay问题的专业水平见仁见智，而各校都有治校方针与招生策略，有权开出其视为最能达成招生目的的题目。
然而，身为买家的申请人也不是一路挨打，或为了拿到学位镀金而把学校捧到天上去。
这方面还需要有第三方专业单位，来制衡商学院的招生与出题逻辑。
本系列评选乃出自笔者曾于美国最大MBA征才会上，有幸担任史上首位华裔职涯顾问的经验，
及曾成功协助众多个案录取哈佛、耶鲁等长春藤MBA并拿下奖学金、并进入世界顶尖企业如：Google、Amazon、Nike等知名品牌美国总部，实现快乐致富生涯;
同时，由笔者长年咨商生涯管理的经验、及所归纳出的“情绪流体”与“生涯金字塔”等理论角度出发，
从“生涯远大于申请”的前提，回归“学位仅是生涯积累中的冰山一角，而不是全部”的长远逻辑，以此评价学校每年开出的Essay题目，其对申请者竞争力与适校条件之鉴别度。
而号称世界顶尖学府的M7名校（哈佛、史丹佛、宾大、芝加哥、MIT、西北、哥伦比亚），其出题逻辑由于具有示范作用与影响力，事关重大，因此先就其出题逻辑的精致度与深奥性做出评比。
本周要来颁发的是“金酸莓奖”。
得奖的是...同样是MIT Sloan的”Organizational Chart”题型。
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其实这题应该早在五、六年前出现时，许多申请人就已经觉得匪夷所思，然而因为出题学校竟是如此具有百年威望的MIT，当时也看不出如此盛名的学校会出什么乱子，也就觉得不以为意～
因而久而久之积非成是，竟然也就即便乍看之下心里觉得奇怪，但也说不出个所以然，那么既然也没什么人特别把这个情况视为怪异，那么就姑且回答吧～
尤其在FAQ中还解释了各种隐私疑虑，既然都说了企业机密可以不写，那就能写多少就写多少吧～
然而，即便是如此极富盛名的学校，究竟为什么会被生涯顾问以为要冠上“金酸莓奖”呢？
原因很简单，正因为它的盛名，也不能凌驾于法律。
虽然笔者不是法律专业，但只要看得懂英文法条，任何人都能看出这题明显违反了美国乃至世界各国的宪法、隐私权法及商业机密法。
这部分还请懂国际法律的民间高手们不吝指教。
美国宪法第五修正案及许多其他修正案、以及各州法律都有对隐私权进行规范。
第五修正案其中最后一句条款中，由于商业机密属于企业资产，受商事法保护，任何要求提供隐私资讯的作公开使用的要求，都需要有对应报偿。
Fifth Amendment
https://constitution.congress.gov/constitution/amendment-5/
No person shall be held to answer for a capital, or otherwise infamous crime, unless on a presentment or indictment of a Grand Jury, except in cases arising in the land or naval forces, or in the Militia, when in actual service in time of War or public danger; nor shall any person be subject for the same offence to be twice put in jeopardy of life or limb; nor shall be compelled in any criminal case to be a witness against himself, nor be deprived of life, liberty, or property, without due process of
law; nor shall private property be taken for public use, without just compensation.
以及商业机密法：
https://www.nist.gov/system/files/documents/mep/marinaslides.pdf
Trade Secrets Law: TRIPS Art. 39 (2) Undisclosed information “Natural and legal persons shall have the possibility of preventing information lawfully within their control from being disclosed to, acquired by, or used by others without their consent in a manner contrary to honest commercial practices so long as such information: (a) is secret in the sense that it is not, as a body or in the precise configuration and assembly of its components, generally known among or readily accessible to persons within
the circles that normally deal with the kind of information in question; (b) has commercial value because it is secret; and (c) has been subject to reasonable steps under the circumstances, by the person lawfully in control of the information, to keep it secret.
而能够以GMAT中位数730录取此等名校的申请人，一定都具备超强智力能看出此题的”unspoken purposes”