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21 Oct 2010, 20:02
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Avernusaur
I can't imagine getting to 500 words and keeping it on one page.
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22 Oct 2010, 00:39
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I'm in for Round 1 as well! MIT is my LAST application - glad to be done with b-school apps!
In regards to the cover letter, mine was two pages. I think two pages is fine because:
1.) The instructions require that the letter "conform to standard business correspondence"
2.) They do not make specific mention of a one-page limit as they did in the instructions for the 3 essays
There's certainly no single universal format for a cover letter that conforms to "standard business correspondence" but Google can point you towards several points of view on the topic. Based on my research, I think the cover letter could be setup like:
After all of this content, you've already used a almost third of the writeable space on the page. The recommended format I used for the second page was:
Hope this helps!
In regards to the cover letter, mine was two pages. I think two pages is fine because:
1.) The instructions require that the letter "conform to standard business correspondence"
2.) They do not make specific mention of a one-page limit as they did in the instructions for the 3 essays
There's certainly no single universal format for a cover letter that conforms to "standard business correspondence" but Google can point you towards several points of view on the topic. Based on my research, I think the cover letter could be setup like:
| October XX, 2010 Mr. Rod Garcia Director of MBA Admissions MIT Sloan School of Management 50 Memorial Drive Cambridge, Massachusetts 02142 Dear Mr Garcia, Yada, yada, yada... |
| Mr. Rod Garcia October XX, 2010 Page 2 |
Hope this helps!
I certainly don't suggest you spend 2 hours writing the letter and 10 hours formatting. That's obviously bass ackwards.
I've spent countless hours on my cover letter and didn't want to jack up the overall polished look by having one paragraph spill onto a second page. That's just me though -- to each his/her own.
