In the first condition, applicants wrote a short essay about a time they had power just before entering an interview.

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Huckabee did not participate in our survey, though he did provide us with a short essay on his key positions.

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Biden did not participate in our survey, though he did provide us with a short essay on his key positions.

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Bill Richardson did not participate in our survey, though he did provide us with a short essay on his key positions.

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Then the description of each law is followed by a short biographical essay about the person for whom the law is named.

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It has always been known that some candidates get extensive editing assistance or may have presented the work of others as their own, but this is often revealed in the interview when a candidate is asked to clarify or elaborate on a response from a short answer question or essay.

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At Berkeley-Haas, Johnson and his team used both a long essay and a number of short answer questions that were designed to give each candidate the opportunity to give us a sense of what was important to them, why business school was the next step, and how they would fit with the culture and program.

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