Business School Application Essays

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Optional essays are just that, so don't feel obligated to write something just because the space is there on your application.

Business School	Number of Mandatory Essays	Number of Optional Essays	Length Restriction
Carnegie Mellon	3	1	2 pages
Chicago	5	1	500 words
Columbia	4	1	250 - 1,000 words
Cornell (Johnson)	2	1	400 words
Dartmouth (Tuck)	4	2	250 - 1,000 words
Duke (Fuqua)	3	0	500 - 750 words
Emory (Goizueta)	3	0	1 - 2 pages
Georgetown (McDonough)	2	1	1 - 2 pages
Harvard	6	0	400 - 600 words
Indiana (Kelley)	3	1	2 pages
Michigan	3	2	500 words
MIT (Sloan)	4	0	500 words
Northwestern (Kellogg)	6	0	2 paragraphs - 2 pages
NYU (Stern)	3	1	2 pages
Ohio State (Fisher)	2	0	1 page
Purdue (Krannert)	3	0	100 - 500 words
Rochester (Simon)	3	0	500 words
Stanford	2	0	3 - 7 pages
Texas -- Austin (McCombs)	3	0	500 - 1,000 words
UC -- Berkeley (Haas)	7	2	1 sentence - 1,000 words
UCLA (Anderson)	3	1	1 - 2 pages
UNC (Kenan-Flagler)	3	2	400 - 1,200 words
U. Pennsylvania (Wharton)	4	1	500 - 1,000 words
USC (Marshall)	4	1	250 - 500 words
Vanderbilt (Owen)	2	1	500 words
Virginia (Darden)	4	1	"best judgment"
Washington U. (Olin)	3	1	300 - 400 words
Yale	2	1	200 - 500 words

Most schools expect your essays to be double spaced and in a font size of at least 10. When determining the maximum length for schools that list it by the page length, you should carefully read the application for formatting requirements and call the admissions office if you have any lingering doubts.

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