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Sounding board yes, authorship no
Kellogg permits AI as a supplementary aid, in its own framing a sounding board for reflection, while insisting that the authorship of your essays must be your own. Notably, the citation-and-footnote requirement from a prior cycle is gone for 2026-27, so the current rule is about authorship rather than paperwork. The operative guidance lives inside the live application, and its wording has moved between cycles.
This is our plain-English reading of Kellogg's published materials, not the school's own words. Read the official source before you rely on it.
Kellogg is comfortable with AI in the thinking phase (testing an idea, pressure-checking a story, asking whether an argument holds) and uncomfortable with it in the writing phase. Authorship must be your own is a clean line: the ideas can be stress-tested by a machine, but the sentences must be yours.
The cycle-to-cycle drift matters more at Kellogg than elsewhere. A footnote requirement existed, then disappeared. That history says the school is still calibrating, so the wording in the live 2026-27 application, not last year's forum threads, is your source of truth. Read it at submission time.
Kellogg states its position inside the live application rather than on a public page; confirm there. · Sourced Jul 14, 2026
Wherever a school asks for a disclosure, the statement itself should be yours. Our free compliance check audits how you used AI against Kellogg's rules and shows what your own statement needs to cover; it never writes it for you.
Run the free AI-policy compliance check →The full field, side by side, lives on the MBA AI-policy hub. Kellogg's current essay prompts are on the prompt tracker.
Asking a tool where an argument sags or whether a structure holds is squarely inside the sounding-board framing. Having the tool produce the outline you then fill in starts to touch authorship, so consider generating outlines yourself and using AI to critique them.
The citation-and-footnote requirement from a prior cycle does not appear for 2026-27. The rule that remains is authorship. Because this has changed before, confirm against the live application when you submit.
Generated drafts, rewritten paragraphs, and any text you would have to attribute to someone else. It leaves room for critique, grammar checking, and reflection. If you could not walk Kellogg through how each paragraph came from you, it is not your authorship.
School policies change between and within cycles. This page reflects Kellogg's public materials as of the sourced date above; always confirm against the live application before you rely on it.