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Business School Application Essays

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 3 0 100 - 1,500 words
Columbia 4 1 250 - 750 words
Cornell (Johnson) 2 1 400 words
Dartmouth (Tuck) 4 2 250 - 500 words
Duke (Fuqua) 4 1 1 page - 750 words
Emory (Goizueta) 3 0 1 - 2 pages
Georgetown (McDonough) 3 1 1 - 2 pages
Harvard 5 0 400 - 600 words
Indiana (Kelley) 3 1 2 pages
INSEAD 7 1 200 - 500 words
London Business School 5 1 150 - 500 words
Michigan (Ross) 3 1 500 words
MIT (Sloan) 4 0 500 words
Northwestern (Kellogg) 5 0 Up to 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 1 500 words
Stanford 3 0 1 - 4 pages
Texas -- Austin (McCombs) 3 0 500 - 1,000 words
UC -- Berkeley (Haas) 6 2 250 - 1,000 words
UCLA (Anderson) 3 1 1 - 2 pages
UNC (Kenan-Flagler) 2 2 400 - 1,200 words
U. Pennsylvania (Wharton) 4 1 250 - 1,000 words
USC (Marshall) 5 1 250 - 750 words
Vanderbilt (Owen) 2 1 500 words
Virginia (Darden) 3 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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