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With round 1 deadlines just around the corner, many of the top schools have already released the essay topics for the 2015-2016 MBA admissions cycle. Only a handful of the top schools have yet to release their deadlines and essay topics, and we’ll update this post when they do.
Some schools are making changes to their applications this year. After an experimental period with only one optional essay, Harvard is now requiring an essay from all MBA applicants. Both Harvard and NYU are asking students to describe themselves to their future class. Georgetown cuts straight to the chase with their first prompt: “Why You?”
Read all of the essay prompts from the top schools below.
| US News Ranking | School | Round 1 Deadline: |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Stanford | Sept 22 |
| 2 | Harvard | Sept 9 |
| 3 | University of Pennsylvania (Wharton) | Sept 29 |
| 4 | University of Chicago (Booth) | Sept 17 |
| 5 | MIT (Sloan) | Sept 17 |
| 6 | Northwestern (Kellogg) | Sept 22 |
| 7 | University of California – Berkeley (Haas) | Oct 1 |
| 8 | Columbia University | Oct 7 |
| 9 | Dartmouth College (Tuck) | Oct 7 |
| 10 | University of Virginia (Darden) | no |
| 11 | New York University (Stern) | Oct 15 |
| 11 | University of Michigan – Ann Arbor (Ross) | Oct 5 |
| 13 | Duke University (Fuqua) | Sept 15 |
| 13 | Yale University | Sept 16 |
| 15 | University of California – Los Angeles (Anderson) | Oct 6 |
| 16 | Cornell University (Johnson) | available soon |
| 17 | University of Texas — Austin (McCombs) | Oct 13 |
| 18 | University of North Carolina — Chapel Hill (Kenan-Flagler) | available soon |
| 19 | Washington in St. Louis (Olin) | available soon |
| 20 | Carnegie Mellon University (Tepper) | available soon |
| 21 | Emory University (Goizueta) | Oct 9 |
| 22 | Indiana University – Bloomington (Kelley) | Oct 15 |
| 23 | University of Washington (Foster) | Oct 15 |
| 24 | Georgetown University (McDonough) | Oct 1 |
| 25 | University of Notre Dame (Mendoza) | available soon |
| 25 | University of Southern California (Marshall) | available soon |