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Are people counting the headers and signatures in their word counts for the cover letter? MIT is very specific on limits for the resume and essays, so I am being extra careful to be under the limits... I wouldn't be surprised if they automated word and line counting of submitted materials somehow.
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I assumed as much when I wrote mine.

Furthermore, the 1 page limit was far more restrictive on the cover letter than 500 word limit. The header/signature take up significant space.
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Are people counting the headers and signatures in their word counts for the cover letter? MIT is very specific on limits for the resume and essays, so I am being extra careful to be under the limits... I wouldn't be surprised if they automated word and line counting of submitted materials somehow.

I assumed as much when I wrote mine.

Furthermore, the 1 page limit was far more restrictive on the cover letter than 500 word limit. The header/signature take up significant space.
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After seeing all these posts, I realized I didnt put a header or footer or any of my essays for any school. Is this mandatory?
Did I mess up badly or what?
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I think it depends on the school and essay. For Booth, they specify that you put your name at the top of each page, so I had a header. In the case of the Sloan cover letter, standard cover letter formatting has:

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I was just wondering if people were counting the entire documents words for the 500 word limit, or just the body.
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I think it depends on the school and essay. For Booth, they specify that you put your name at the top of each page, so I had a header. In the case of the Sloan cover letter, standard cover letter formatting has:

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Dear Mr/Mrs Recipient,

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I was just wondering if people were counting the entire documents words for the 500 word limit, or just the body.
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I counted all the words including the header info and the signature. With that, I was at 503 words, but I think I will be fine.
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Think I might drop MIT. Spent so much time on Haas that I've barely gotten started on Sloan. On top of that, my recommendation provider point blank told me you're not going to get in, which got me thinking...
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fyi....During one of the Sloan admission process online chats the adcom mentioned that only the body of the essays are counted towards the word limit.
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Think I might drop MIT. Spent so much time on Haas that I've barely gotten started on Sloan. On top of that, my recommendation provider point blank told me you're not going to get in, which got me thinking...
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I haven't started either but I can get it done in the next 5 days. Can't wait till r2

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Wow looks like people are quick here. I just started on Essay 1 today. Looks like this is gonna go down to the wire too.
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Couldn't help! :)
My Booth app took one extra week than what I expected.
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Okay I'm starting essays now. Will see if I can get 2 essays done by Friday else I'm not doing sloan...
These guys won't even let me reuse my resume..how do I fit the damn thing in 50 lines?
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Question: can the bullet points in my resume overlap with my essay content?
Or do they have to be completely new stories in the essays? After all, I've had only so much impact on my company.
thanks in advance.
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Thank you for pointing out the 50 line resume req. I had quite conveniently ignored that.

For the resume points, I do think that they can very well overlap. Infact, if you highlight something in your essays, those are you key points which should be in the resume as well...

essay 2 is killing me....
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Hey Moderator!

Applying!

Update roll call!

Thanks!!
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What font are you guys using on your resume?
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What font are you guys using on your resume?
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Comic Sans, with Curlz MT for the section titles.


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(I'm really using Times New Roman, 10 pt, 0.5" margins)
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What font are you guys using on your resume?

Comic Sans, with Curlz MT for the section titles.


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(I'm really using Times New Roman, 10 pt, 0.5" margins)
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Lol ...

I am trying to get it into 11pt.. does that matters in anyway ?

Also when you say 0.5" is it all four or left and right.

right now mine is top, bottom - 0.60, left, Right- 0.75
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My resume is size 11 in the body, 12 for section headers, and 14 for the title. I decreased the margins a bit, and interspersed size 4 font blanklines between some sections to make it less crowded. 50 lines of text exactly.
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Found this interesting and thought I'd share....

From accepted.com chat in 2008 (https://www.accepted.com/chat/Transcript ... 8_mit.aspx)
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Hi Barry, how stringent is the word limit for the essays. Is 500 words +/ 5 % acceptable?

BarryReckleyMIT (Oct 23, 2008 12:31:49 PM)
Ankit: Yes.
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From accepted.com chat in 2006 (https://www.accepted.com/chat/transcript ... sloan.aspx
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Jen: In regard to the cover letter, since the word limit is 500, should we spend 50 words on the routine thank-you at the beginning and end of the letter?

JenBurkeMIT (Nov 15, 2005 10:33:09 AM)
Bosapp - The letter should be close to 500 words, but we will not penalize you if you are slightly over due to thank you's and salutations.
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The Cover-letter essay has been the same for all these periods.

I'm going to try to limit just the body of my essay to 500 words. It'll be over the word limit with the other stuff, but I guess that's not a problem.
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Question: can the bullet points in my resume overlap with my essay content?
Or do they have to be completely new stories in the essays? After all, I've had only so much impact on my company.
thanks in advance.
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Yes, you can have overlap. I did in my essays and resume.
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