Applying to GSB, I truly took the optional short answer questions to be optional and wasn’t planning on doing them - will that hurt me?

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Majority of admits that I have spoken to have done the optional short answer questions.

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I think the GSB optional questions are pretty important bc it gives you more real estate to give them reasons to accept you (and then you don’t need to try and cram it into essays, etc.)

Yea I used optional essays to showcase my leadership stories and then used the What Matters Most essay to talk about personal values

But if you can weave in leadership stories into your what matters most then you should be fine. Just as long as you’re able to communicate the themes you want them to know about you!

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What if you feel like you genuinely covered everything in the 2 essays and other parts of the application? (I’m in the same boat and feel like I can’t add more without repeating things)

I think you’re set then! I wouldn’t force it if it’s repetitive

Don’t force it.

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