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When guiding potential MBA students through their applications, New York University's Stern School of Business has this year included a rather unusual stipulation: a limit to the size of objects that can be submitted by applicants.

The school encourages potential students to be creative by submitting materials that reveal something of their character and interests. However, Stern's admissions department has found the arrival of personalised guitars, skis and snowboards a little hard to handle. "We tell people we want them to think outside the box - it just needs to fit inside a box," says Isser Gallogly, Stern's executive director of MBA admissions.
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Aside from guitars and skis, submissions to Stern have included stories, poems and paintings. In one instance, a mock cereal box was submitted decorated with photographs of the applicant, with details of their body weight replacing the weight of the contents, and ingredients such as "a charismatic social individual" listed on the side.
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Most admissions directors have pet hates. Overkill is one. Whether that is an overly long essay or a plethora of letters of recommendation, submitting too much material is not going to be well received. "We have to remind people that we have thousands of applications to review, so sending in a lot of things won't necessarily help you," says Ms Wallace.
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