Seventeen MBA programs, read on their own pages on 1 September 2026. Each row records what the rule regulates, the wording, how the school asks you to disclose, the consequence the school itself states, and where the wording came from.
Stanford GSB (MBA)
PublishedRegulates:Authorship
“It is improper and a violation of the terms of this application process to have another person or tool write your essays.”
- Where it applies
- Essays
- Disclosure mechanism
- None. GSB asks for no disclosure.
- Consequence the school states
- GSB states that such conduct may result in denial of your application or revocation of your admission.
- Provenance
- Published on Stanford GSB's own essays page. The rule is tool-neutral — it says “another person or tool” and never says “AI”. GSB also defines appropriate feedback as others reviewing your completed application and telling you of omissions, errors or inaccuracies you then correct.
London Business School (MBA)
PublishedRegulates:AssistanceDisclosure
“The use of any AI tools on your essays and application is permitted for checking and editing, but must be fully disclosed within the application. Candidates are not permitted to use AI during the Alumni/Staff interview, or the video submission.”
- Where it applies
- Essays and application; separately, the interview and video
- Disclosure mechanism
- Disclosed within the application itself.
- Consequence the school states
- None published.
- Provenance
- Published on London Business School's own MBA FAQ page. The rule splits by surface: written materials are permitted with disclosure, live surfaces are not.
Michigan Ross (Graduate Programs)
PublishedRegulates:AssistanceDisclosure
“Ross graduate admissions recognizes the appropriate use of generative artificial intelligence (AI) tools for providing guidance and suggestions. If you use artificial intelligence (AI) software in the creation of your essay answers, you are required to use the APA in-text citation “Personal Communication.””
- Where it applies
- Essay answers
- Disclosure mechanism
- An APA in-text citation inside the essay: (Communicator, personal communication, Month Date, Year). Ross's own example is (OpenAI, personal communication, January 16, 2023).
- Consequence the school states
- None published.
- Provenance
- Published on Ross's own online-MBA application-requirements page. The full-time MBA requirements page publishes a separate sentence — “While applicants may use AI tools, essays should remain original, authentic, and reflective of the applicant's own voice.” — with no citation requirement (checked 2026-09-01).
Duke Fuqua (Daytime MBA)
PublishedRegulates:AssistanceDetection
“We recognize that applicants may use tools such as Grammarly, ChatGPT, or other AI technologies. These tools may be used to support editing and clarity, but your ideas, experiences, and responses should be your own. AI should help refine your content, not generate it. All essays are scanned using plagiarism detection software.”
- Where it applies
- Essays
- Disclosure mechanism
- None. Fuqua asks for no disclosure.
- Consequence the school states
- Fuqua states that unattributed external or AI content constitutes plagiarism, violates the Fuqua Honor Code and may result in denial of admission, and that heavy AI reliance may negatively affect an applicant's evaluation.
- Provenance
- Published on Fuqua's own application-instructions page, which also says essays may be reviewed using AI-detection tools. Fuqua is the only program in this set whose own page describes screening. A detector result is a signal, not proof.
NYU Stern (MBA)
PublishedRegulates:Authorship
“Your essays must be written entirely by you. An offer of admission will be rescinded if you did not write your essays.”
- Where it applies
- Essays
- Disclosure mechanism
- None. Stern asks for no disclosure.
- Consequence the school states
- Stern states that an offer of admission will be rescinded.
- Provenance
- Published on Stern's own MBA essays page. No detection or screening method is published.
Dartmouth Tuck (MBA)
PublishedRegulates:Authorship
“We expect that your essays are entirely accurate and exclusively yours. Using tools or professional services to create content that is not your own violates Tuck's admissions policies and Academic Honor Principle. Your reference must be the sole author of your LOR. Drafting, writing, translating, or submitting your own LOR, even if asked to do so by your reference, violates Tuck's admissions policies and Academic Honor Principle.”
- Where it applies
- Essays and letters of recommendation
- Disclosure mechanism
- None. Tuck asks for no disclosure.
- Consequence the school states
- Tuck states that it violates Tuck's admissions policies and Academic Honor Principle.
- Provenance
- Published on Tuck's own applying-to-Tuck page. The rule never names AI: it covers tools and professional services alike, and it is one of the two rules in this set that reaches the recommender's letter.
UW Foster (Full-Time MBA)
PublishedRegulates:AssistanceDisclosure
“Applicants are expected to generate their own ideas to ensure authenticity, originality, and creativity in their essays. Although AI tools can be very helpful in refining messages, we have found that candidates do themselves a disservice by relying too heavily on them. The use of any AI tools on our application must be disclosed in the Foster Integrity Statement.”
- Where it applies
- Essays and application
- Disclosure mechanism
- The Foster Integrity Statement, a named form inside the application.
- Consequence the school states
- None published.
- Provenance
- Published on Foster's own full-time MBA admissions page.
Yale SOM (MBA)
PublishedRegulates:Assistance
“Don't use AI when completing your video questions. We have a statement on AI use in our application, and, in summary, reading from a script or relying heavily on notes defeats the purpose of the video questions and could undermine an otherwise strong candidacy.”
- Where it applies
- Video questions
- Disclosure mechanism
- None published.
- Consequence the school states
- SOM states that it could undermine an otherwise strong candidacy.
- Provenance
- Published in SOM's own application guide, and written about the video questions. SOM says its full AI statement sits inside the application, which is not public; the admissions FAQ carries no AI text.
Harvard Business School (MBA)
ReportedRegulates:Disclosure
The application is reported to ask “Have you utilized AI in completing the application?”, to state that the use of AI is permitted but that you should not claim AI output as your own independent work, and to provide a 75-word box: “In accordance with HBS student policy, you must cite your sources. Please indicate below in what manner you have utilized AI in completing this application, and in which sections.” Recommenders are reported to be asked “Have you utilized AI in completing this recommendation?”
- Where it applies
- The application form and the recommender form
- Disclosure mechanism
- Reported: a yes/no question plus a 75-word statement inside the application, and a separate yes/no on the recommender form.
- Consequence the school states
- None published.
- Provenance
- Reported by Poets&Quants, 2026-05-26, republishing an admissions consultant's guide first posted 2026-05-07, and, for the recommender question, Clear Admit — not on HBS's public admissions pages as of 2026-09-01; confirm in your application. We read HBS's application-process, admission-policies and portal pages on 2026-09-01 and none of them carries AI text. We previously described Harvard's institution-wide prohibition as governing HBS: that rule is Harvard College's undergraduate FAQ and it has been removed from this page.
Wharton (MBA)
ReportedRegulates:AuthorshipDetection
The application is reported to say that work in the application must be your own, that it is unacceptable to have AI substantially complete a task such as writing an admissions essay, and that the school “may use its own proprietary and/or licensed AI solutions in order to identify AI-authored elements of applications”, with any such flagging resulting in “a more holistic investigation of an application”.
- Where it applies
- The application
- Disclosure mechanism
- None reported. Wharton is reported to ask for no disclosure, which is the structural opposite of the HBS regime.
- Consequence the school states
- Reported as a more holistic investigation of an application — an investigation, not an automatic decision.
- Provenance
- Reported by Poets&Quants, 2026-05-26, republishing an admissions consultant's guide first posted 2026-05-07, which is the sole source — not on Wharton's public application guide, essays section or admissions FAQ as of 2026-09-01; confirm in your application. The reported sentence says the school may use such tools, which is not the same as saying it detects AI. A detector result is a signal, not proof.
Columbia Business School (MBA)
Page not retrievableRegulates:Assistance
Reported as: Columbia Business School permits the use of generative AI tools for idea generation and/or to edit a candidate's work; however, using these tools to generate complete responses violates the Honor Code.
- Where it applies
- Application responses
- Disclosure mechanism
- None reported.
- Consequence the school states
- Reported as an Honor Code violation. No further consequence sentence was located.
- Provenance
- Columbia's own MBA application-requirements page returned HTTP 403 to three retrieval routes on 2026-09-01, so we could not read it. The wording above is reported by a third-party admissions guide (page updated 2026-07-21) — confirm it in your application. An admissions director is separately quoted by Clear Admit (2026-08-20) saying Columbia encourages and permits AI for proofreading or idea generation.
Kellogg (Full-Time MBA)
UnresolvedRegulates:Authorship
No AI, citation or authorship text appears on Kellogg's 2026-27 how-to-apply page. Whether the earlier requirement to cite AI tools survives in the 2026-27 application is unresolved.
- Where it applies
- The written essay and the video essays
- Disclosure mechanism
- Unresolved. One 2026 guide says the citation requirement was dropped; another still describes it as required.
- Consequence the school states
- None published.
- Provenance
- We read Kellogg's how-to-apply pages and its 2026-06-10 application-launch post on 2026-09-01: they carry the 550-word essay and five video essays, and no AI text. One consultancy account (2026-06-12) reports the citation line was removed and the prompt now centres on authorship; another (2026-05-07) still describes citation as required. Neither is first-party — read the certification inside your own application.
Chicago Booth (Full-Time MBA)
No published ruleRegulates:Nothing published
No AI text appears on Booth's full-time MBA admissions or requirements pages as of 2026-09-01.
- Where it applies
- —
- Disclosure mechanism
- None published.
- Consequence the school states
- None published.
- Provenance
- Verified silence on both named URLs on 2026-09-01. No published rule is not permission: the certification you sign inside the application still governs.
Berkeley Haas (MBA)
No published ruleRegulates:Nothing published
No AI text appears on Haas's MBA essays page or MBA application page as of 2026-09-01.
- Where it applies
- —
- Disclosure mechanism
- None published.
- Consequence the school states
- None published.
- Provenance
- Verified silence on both named URLs on 2026-09-01. Berkeley's institution-level record reflects University of California guidance written for undergraduate applications, not the Haas MBA.
UVA Darden (MBA)
No published ruleRegulates:Nothing published
No AI text appears on Darden's 2026-27 application post or its apply page as of 2026-09-01; two 200-word short answers and a video essay are listed with no AI rule.
- Where it applies
- —
- Disclosure mechanism
- None published.
- Consequence the school states
- None published.
- Provenance
- Verified silence on both named URLs on 2026-09-01.
INSEAD (MBA)
No published ruleRegulates:Nothing published
No AI text appears on INSEAD's MBA admissions page as of 2026-09-01.
- Where it applies
- —
- Disclosure mechanism
- None published.
- Consequence the school states
- None published.
- Provenance
- Verified silence on the named URL on 2026-09-01. An INSEAD admissions director is quoted by Clear Admit (2026-08-20) saying “I don't think anyone is not using AI right now” — a remark, not a rule.
MIT Sloan (MBA)
No published ruleRegulates:Nothing published
No AI text appears on MIT Sloan's how-to-apply page as of 2026-09-01. The page does ask applicants to answer its video question in their own words, with no prior preparation required.
- Where it applies
- —
- Disclosure mechanism
- None published.
- Consequence the school states
- None published.
- Provenance
- Verified silence on the named URL on 2026-09-01.