How essay reductions impact applicants

Two years ago, the Harvard Business School made a bold move by reducing the application requirements for potential MBA applicants. They moved to one essay, technically optional, and reduced the number of required letters of recommendations. It didn’t take long for their rivals to follow suit. Top MBA programs like HBS, Stanford, Wharton, Ross, Sloan and many other schools are drastically cutting their essays/total word counts and number of recommenders. …read more

Source: Poets and Quants