Quoted: Jennifer Hackett, 29, says she applied to the University of Wisconsin-Madison School of Business, because it offers a specialization in human resources. “Being able to work with faculty and students who share my interest in HR was really important to me, so I made that apparent in my essay,” she says. Ms. Hackett, who had been a HR generalist in Chicago and is now a second-year M.B.A. at Madison, says she also explained her goal of becoming “a strategic partner with a company and have a seat at the executive table.”
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