For a more comprehensive perspective, it may be helpful to know how many applications were received by each of the top 29 MBA programs last admissions cycle:
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Harvard 9,886
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Stanford 7,797
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Penn (Wharton) 6,245
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Columbia 6,029
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MIT 5,560
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Northwestern (Kellogg) 4,471
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Chicago (Booth) 4,289
The above seven MBA programs are often referred to as the M-7.
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UCal-Berkeley (Haas) 3,821
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Yale SOM 3,785
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NYU (Stern) 3,781
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Duke (Fuqua) 3,557
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UCLA (Anderson) 3,423
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Michigan (Ross) 3,188
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Dartmouth (Tuck) 2,621
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Virginia (Darden) 2,279
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Texas-Austin (McCombs) 2,078
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USC (Marshall) 2,017)
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UNC (Keenan-Flagler) 1,758
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Cornell (Johnson) 1,600
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Carnegie Mellon (Tepper) 1,656
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Georgetown (McDonough) 1,459
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Emory (Goizueta) 1,348
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WashUStL (Olin) 1,115
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Indiana (Kelley) 1,082
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University of Washington (Foster) 934
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Vanderbilt (Owens) 712
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Rice (Jones) 587 (impacted by Hurricane Harvey flooding–apps down by almost 28%)
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Notre Dame (Mendoza) 578
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Minnesota (Carlson) 529