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Requires APA-style in-text citation for AI assistance, e.g. (OpenAI, personal communication, date).
Ross is among the more permissive schools: it recognizes appropriate use of AI for guidance and suggestions, but if you use AI in creating your essay answers you must cite it in APA style as a personal communication, for example (OpenAI, personal communication, January 16, 2027).
This is our plain-English reading of Ross's published materials, not the school's own words. Read the official source before you rely on it.
Ross imported an academic-integrity convention into admissions. The citation format treats a chat session like a conversation you are quoting, which tells you how Ross thinks about it: AI is a source, and sources get credited. The flip side is that a citation inside a short essay is conspicuous, so the policy quietly discourages heavy use even while permitting it.
Note the trigger: the requirement attaches to using AI in creating your answers. Guidance and suggestions are the school's own examples of appropriate use, but if tool output shaped the essay's content, cite it. When you are unsure whether your use rises to creating, the citation costs you a line; the uncredited alternative risks your integrity file.
Ross's official policy · 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 Ross'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. Ross's current essay prompts are on the prompt tracker.
Ross's own example is APA personal-communication style: (OpenAI, personal communication, January 16, 2027). Put it in the text where the assistance applied. It costs a few words against the limit, which is worth budgeting for when you plan the essay.
The requirement attaches to AI used in creating your answers, and Ross names guidance and suggestions as appropriate uses. Pure mechanical correction sits outside creating on a plain reading, but the school does not carve it out explicitly, so consider citing anything that shaped substance and using judgment on the rest.
Ross built the rule because it expects cited use; an honest citation shows you read instructions and follow them. The citation also shows the reader exactly how much of the essay needed outside help, which is the real argument for keeping AI's role small.
School policies change between and within cycles. This page reflects Ross's public materials as of the sourced date above; always confirm against the live application before you rely on it.