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The McCombs School of Business at the University of Texas at Austin requires two brief yet revelatory written essays from its applicants. Combined, the essay prompts cover the core topics of why you need an MBA, why you want to attend McCombs, what you value, and how you will contribute. For the program’s first essay, … Read More  

Yale School of Management (SOM) is one of the few top MBA programs that give candidates just one required application essay with which to make an impression on the admissions committee. The school offers applicants a choice of three topics to, as the committee states, “ensure that you’re able to write about something important to … Read More  

Applicants to Dartmouth College’s Tuck School of Business must provide three 2,000-character essays and have the option to submit a fourth, if anything more about their candidacy needs to be offered or explained. The school’s first prompt broadly covers applicants’ need for an MBA, and specifically a Tuck MBA. The second deals with candidates’ individuality … Read More  

The admissions committee at the University of Chicago Booth School of Business provides its applicants with the opportunity to paint a well-rounded picture of themselves, but they must do so with significant brevity. For each of the program’s four prompts, candidates are limited to just 300 characters—not words. And this includes spaces! Because this equates … Read More  

The New York University (NYU) Stern School of Business requires only two essays this year, but the contrast between the prompts for those essays enables candidates to cover a significant amount of ground. First, the school poses a straightforward and traditional question about applicants’ short-term professional aspirations and why Stern specifically is needed to achieve … Read More