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by gmataspirant123 » Sat Oct 01, 2011 3:10 pm

HBS has the last question as "Answer a question you wish we'd asked." This has a word limit of 400. So, I have to first state the question I wish they would have asked me and then i need to answer that question. Does the "question" that I am phrasing also contribute to the word count OR is it just the response that will count?

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by essaysnark » Sat Oct 01, 2011 5:18 pm

Good question! The essay itself is expected to be in the 400-word range. We haven't literally heard this from Dee Leopold herself, however we highly doubt that the HBS adcom is likely to count the question that you're posing for yourself within that word limit. The question itself shouldn't be too long though! Harvard essay questions, as you know for yourself from working through the other three essays, are quite short. Don't be tempted to write a novel-length essay question such as Wharton has! So keep the question short, and then write 400 words from there.

(Note that HBS doesn't count words, so if you go overlimit slightly, it won't hurt you.)

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