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Clear Admit has frequently been featured in the press as both a prominent company in the admissions consulting space and an authority on the MBA application process. Here are some highlights: Forbes, November 21, 2011 Given the competitive nature of MBA admissions, many MBA candidates are often tempted to present themselves in an overly confident manner in order to stand out in the applicant pool. Many admissions officers warn, however, that this is not the best strategic move. Graham Richmond, co-Founder of Clear Admit, states: "While many applicants take the "Look at me, I'm great!" approach - and think they are doing themselves a favor - the truth is that striking this sort of tone rarely pays dividends. There is not a single top M.B.A. program where the admissions team responds favorably to a candidate who aggressively self-promotes. The reason for this is that there is a fine line between confidence and cockiness; applicants who play their hand too strongly often end up coming across as arrogant." Richmond also gave advice on how to produce a strong set of admissions materials and stressed that candidates should show and not tell in their essays: "Applicants should be sure to quantify their impact, fully explain their actions, and provide illustrative examples to produce a set of engaging materials. This means letting the stories they share speak for themselves and focusing on what one thought, felt, said and did in a given instance, while leaving the process of judging one's success to the admissions reader." Bloomberg Businessweek, October 19, 2011 MBA applicants often face the difficult decision of choosing between two elite business schools. Graham Richmond, co-founder of Clear Admit, reminds applicants that once they have been accepted, they can utilize different resources to help them in their decision making process such as alumni networks and events for incoming students. Wall Street Journal, October 6, 2011 Given the difficulty of getting into top MBA programs, many applicants choose to utilize consulting services to help with the admissions process. Elizabeth Lo worked with Clear Admit counselor Deena Maerowitz, a former associate director of admissions at Columbia Business School. Maerowitz guided Ms. Lo through essay revisions and mock interviews. Ms. Lo was not only accepted to her two top choice schools, Wharton and New York University's Stern School of Business, but also received a scholarship offer from Wharton. The Washington Post, August 13, 2011 A recent study conducted by Bloomberg Businessweek has shown that over the course of their lifetimes, graduates from top business schools earn approximately $1 million more than their peers at less prestigious institutions. Given this incentive, many applicants use consultants, such as Clear Admit, to help guide them through the business school admissions process. Bloomberg Businessweek, March 28, 2011 Admissions directors and consultants feel that prospective applicants place too much weight on rankings alone, and should pay closer attention to the other data provided by the lists. "The rankings are an initial step, but you have to go further," says Graham Richmond. "The ranking doesn't tell you the full story of what life is like on that campus or what a school is actually doing to place students in a particular industry." Richmond recommends using information from the rankings to create a personalized list of programs to apply to. He also suggests consulting specialty rankings to find programs that align with the applicant's career goals. U.S. News & World Report, December 17, 2010 In an interview for U.S News & World Report, Clear Admit co-founder Graham Richmond fielded questions ranging from how much work experience an applicant should have before applying to an MBA program to how highly top schools value internships as compared to full-time jobs. In answering these and other questions, Richmond stressed that MBA admissions officers are open to a wide range of prior work experience. "The beauty of business school admissions is that there truly is no single professional profile that schools are seeking," he said. "At Clear Admit, we regularly see Peace Corps workers, family-business entrepreneurs, venture capitalists, strategy consultants, accountants, doctors, lawyers, investment bankers, technology professionals and brand managers all head off to top schools," he continued. Bloomberg Businessweek, November 29, 2010 Certain business consulting agencies write application essays for their clients, despite the knowledge that applicants will pass the work off as their own. In the U.S., certain admission consulting firms have formed a professional alliance, the Association of International Graduate Admissions Consultants (AIGAC), to help clients and business schools know they adhere to certain standards, says Graham Richmond, the organization's president, who added that these reputable firms are not to be confused with essay-writing services. Poets & Quants September 20, 2010 As more and more business school applicants employ the help of consulting agencies, admissions counselors have begun to accept, and even welcome consultants. Business schools are realizing the influence that admissions consultants have on where candidates apply, and have begun to provide them with a look into the admissions process. For example, for the past three years, the Association of International Graduate Admissions Consultants (AIGAC) has visited top MBA programs as part of its annual spring conference. As part of the P&Q article, Clear Admit's Graham Richmond, the current president of AIGAC, discusses how the decision to form an association of admissions counselors grew out of a series of presentations he and others made to admissions officers. With the support and collaboration of admissions directors at the University of Chicago Booth School of Business and the Tuck School of Business at Dartmouth, AIGAC drafted a code of ethics that consultants pledge to follow to ensure that applications continue to be the work of the applicants themselves. This kind of collaboration between schools and admissions consultants has helped foster a positive relationship between the two. Bloomberg Businessweek, August 30, 2010 The campus visit can not only improve a candidate's application, it can also play a decisive role in where they will ultimately decide to pursue their MBA. Indeed, even at business schools with large enrollments, candidates can gather specifics about the campus that will improve their applications and interviews, says Graham Richmond, co-founder and chief executive of the admissions consultancy Clear Admit in Philadelphia. Richmond, who worked in admissions at the University of Pennsylvania's Wharton School before co-founding Clear Admit, advised prospective applicants to always be courteous during campus visits. While at Wharton, he would open applications to find notes about rude or demanding applicants. The Wall Street Journal, June 28, 2010 A new section designed to measure prospective business school applicants' ability to evaluate information from multiple sources will be introduced as part of the Graduate Management Admission Test (GMAT) beginning in June 2012. Clear Admit CEO Graham Richmond, commented on the possibility that a greater number of applicants from non-business backgrounds would favor the Graduate Record Examination (GRE) over the GMAT. Bloomberg Businessweek, April 20, 2009 Prospective MBA applicants have a range of things to consider when planning a campus visit to business schools. Clear Admit CEO Graham Richmond advises to think through the timing of your visit. "We always push candidates to go the spring before they apply if they're planning to apply in the first round in the fall," he told BW. This is a much better plan than trying to go in the fall, when you're busy working to finish up your applications and first-year students are still trying to get the hang of campus themselves. Bloomberg Businessweek, December 16, 2008 The years leading up to applying to MBA programs are crucial to developing a successful application. Businessweek offers a five year planner leading up to pursuing an MBA, complete with strategies and advice. The Wall Street Journal, September 10, 2008 The Wall Street Journal's Work & Family column featured a question regarding part-time management education offerings in the New York area. "Almost every MBA program in the New York area offers a part-time on-campus option, says Graham Richmond, chief executive of Clear Admit, an MBA admissions counseling firm in Philadelphia. New York University's Stern School of Business has a top-tier part-time program that offers evening and weekend classes, on campuses in New York City and near Westchester, Mr. Richmond says. Fordham University's graduate business school offers a part-time MBA that can be completed on its campus near Westchester, also with evening and Saturday classes. And Iona College's Hagan School of Business in New Rochelle, N.Y., offers classes on weeknights and Saturdays. All of these programs, Mr. Richmond adds, typically take about two to three years to complete." Bloomberg Businessweek, July 31, 2008 One of the best ways to prepare for the MBA application process is to devote time to self reflection."With the admissions process, the more you know yourself and the career track you're heading on, the better you'll be at answering the [application essay] questions," says Graham Richmond, an MBA admissions consultant based in Philadelphia. He adds that knowing oneself will not only make you a better applicant, but also a better student who will be able to take advantage of all the MBA program has to offer from the very start. U.S. News and World Report,
March 26th, 2008 The University of Chicago's business school is one of several that require candidates to follow an honor code stating their application material is their own work. But admission consultants, whose services include essay help, aren't necessarily off limits. "Anyone who works with us can say it is their own work," says Graham Richmond, chief executive officer of Clear Admit in Philadelphia. His consultancy, which charges at least $200 an hour, doesn't write essays, and others shouldn't either. Find advisers who have agreed to follow ethical practices at aigac.org. BusinessWeek, May 24th,
2007 Many top programs have explicit policies against outside help. The Web site of the Stanford Graduate School of Business warns that applicants "cross a line when a piece of the application ceases to be exclusively yours in either thought or word." At Harvard, admissions officers interviewed 15% more applicants this year in an effort to "get to the authentic person," says Deirdre C. Leopold, managing director of MBA admissions and financial aid. At Fuqua, a rigorous in-house system of background checks will be in place for next year. Graham Richmond is quick to defend consulting firms like Clear Admit, which he founded with a fellow Wharton grad six years ago. His goal, he says, is to "perfect the admissions process, not pervert it." He helped launch the Association of International Graduate Admissions Consultants this month to help legitimize the field. BusinessWeek, January
22th, 2007 If that line of thinking sounds familiar - and admissions consultants such as Clear Admit's Graham Richmond say it's quite common - you might want to take a step back and consider that the experience of attending B-school in a town like Charlottesville, Va., Hanover, N.H., or Ithaca, N.Y. has its own upside. While many of those advantages are of the more intangible variety (how do you put a value on school spirit?) satisfied alums say the small-town, small-school experience can bring big-time payoffs. "Many of our clients tell us that they view the more rural programs as a chance to actually escape the 'buzz' of cities and the daily grind of the professional world," Richmond says, especially for MBAs who realize that B-school might be their only chance before retirement to live outside a major urban center. "Spending two years in a place like Hanover really gives students the chance to unplug and devote themselves entirely to academic study and MBA community events." The Economist, October
30th, 2006 Admissions consulting firms occupy a controversial niche in business education. Some business schools believe the firms, which offer guidance to prospective students, prevent admissions officers from forming an honest and candid view of applicants. The consultants retort that their main task is to educate their clients on the features of business schools, with the aim of finding the institutions that best suit their clients' aspirations. Clear Admit, an admissions consulting firm based in Philadelphia, has taken a step to bolster that claim. The firm has begun offering research reports that provide information on a school's academic programmes, student demographics, campus life, job placement and admissions, among many other things. Most of the data in the reports are supplied by the schools--one reason why admissions officers claim consultants are unnecessary. But few applicants have time to compile statistics and information in depth on each of the schools they are considering. BusinessWeek, December
4th, 2006 Admissions consultant Graham Richmond of Clear Admit says in some cases visiting a school can be a good way to show them you're interested. "Even if you haven't been promoted, maybe you visited and had coffee with the head of the real estate club, if that's your field of interest, and you've learned some new things that make you even more enthusiastic," he says. But don't use a school visit as an excuse to plead your case in person, warns Richmond. "Some people do the old 'demand a meeting with an admissions officer,' or just show up on campus asking to sit down with someone, the assumption being, 'Oh, if I can just get five minutes of face time, I'll talk my way in.' Usually it has the opposite effect." iMarketing Connection,
September 13th, 2006 Clear Admit... is a great example of a company that uses wikis to tap into the collective knowledge of its customers. The Clear Admit MBA Admissions Wiki is composed of actual user insight and experiences at each step in the admissions process, from the interview to the application stage. Instead of a costly top-down approach of providing static wisdom to users, Clear Admit can leverage an inexpensive bottom-up approach based on recent customer experience. BusinessWeek, June 27th,
2006 One problem, say consultants, is that admissions officers don't always know who is who. "They don't know which companies are behaving ethically and which companies are more fly-by-night, selling essays," says consultant Graham Richmond of Clear Admit. To help solve this problem, the admissions consultants on the GMAC panel announced plans to form an association to promote honesty and integrity within their field by setting a standard of principles and best practices - an idea that went over well with admissions officers. "If you had a code of conduct and a board of accreditation for consultants, then we'd know exactly what type of assistance they're giving, and that would be a wonderful thing," says Linda Meehan, executive director for admissions and financial aid at Columbia Business School. Richmond says it's still in the planning phase. GMAC Newsletter, July/August
2006 Although it may seem that admissions consultants interfere in the traditional process, Graham Richmond of ClearAdmit encouraged the audience to work with consultants as a "part of the equation." Consider them in the same light as guidance counselors who prepare high school students for college and college students for law or medical school, he said. Traditional candidates for graduate management programs don't have the same resources as current students; most are already in the workplace. Instead of looking at cooperation with consultants as unethical, Richmond advised the audience to consider the "Tuck approach"; Dartmouth's Tuck School of Business hosted admissions consultants for a three-day info session about the school. That kind of partnership, Richmond said, offers a valuable marketing opportunity. BusinessWeek, April
20th, 2006 The road to success was rockier for some, especially those who left B-school during the heady days of the Internet boom. In the late 1990s, it was in vogue to drop out and launch a startup, says Graham Richmond, co-founder of admissions-consulting firm Clear Admit in Philadelphia. "There was a culture of leaving," he says. "Ten to 15 people would leave every year, and not all of them came back"... With tuition often costing upwards of $80,000, many students who are already enrolled in top MBA programs have made a hefty financial commitment that includes student loans and tuition payments. Richmond says his clients would probably require a really special reason for thinking about quitting once enrolled. Admissions consultants advise potential and current students about applying to or leaving B-school on a case-by-case basis. But most of them say they believe in the power of the degree. "You might get the job offer without an MBA, but how will you perform without it?" asks Richmond. On the other hand, some of those who left business school say they had already gotten all they needed from the program. The Boston Globe, February
6th, 2006 "We're starting to get some recognition by business school admission committees that we exist, that we're not going away," noted Alex L. Brown, senior admissions counselor at ClearAdmit LLC in Philadelphia, who worries that a small group trafficking in second-hand essays on the Internet is spoiling the image of the rest of the industry. "There are people out there who say, 'We'll write your essay for you, or we'll sell you an essay for Harvard,' " he acknowledged. "They give a bad name to those of us who are providing professional feedback." Tech-savvy consultants at ClearAdmit have created a weblog and a collaborative website, known as a wiki, to keep their business school candidates abreast of admission trends and invite them to provide feedback. Brown, one of two former Wharton admissions officers now working as consultants, said he sometimes lunches with his former colleagues, though he does not lobby them on behalf of clients. Brown said lobbying would be unethical -- and unnecessary. "Obviously," he said, "I have insight into how their process works." The Diva Marketing Blog,
January 4th, 2006 Clear Admit, an educational counseling firm that guides MBA candidates through the maze of applying to top B-school programs, launched an interesting wiki that supports its Clear Admit Blog. The Clear Admit MBA Admissions Wiki provides people going through the MBA experience an opportunity to share what they've learned. There are tabs for the interview process and the application. There's even a tab for current students to tell the real scoop on what's going on in classes and on campus. The wiki includes links to some of the schools' bloggers. Between the blog and the wiki Clear Admit has created a comprehensive resource for MBA wannabees. What makes The Clear Admit wiki unique is that it works in tangent with the blog. Click on the blog links to Interview Reports and Bloggers by School you'll be taken to the wiki pages. Information flows back and forth. BusinessWeek, February
11th, 2005 The downside of earning a European MBA? Critics say even the most prominent European schools can't compete with American heavyweights like Wharton and Kellogg, with their worldwide reputations for excellence. Radhesh Welling, an IMD grad, says despite the more international nature of the European MBA, the American version has more clout globally because the programs are generally older and better established. Nonetheless, many students in European schools view their programs' youth as no serious drawback. David Brooks, an American in Oxford's eight-year-old Said MBA program, sees big advantages "just from having friends and classmates in 44 countries." Some aspiring MBAs also fret that a one-year model doesn't work well for career switchers. "Finding employment after graduation is the one factor that trumps all others when deciding on schools," says Graham Richmond, cofounder of the MBA application service Clear Admit. Missing out on that internship can make a difference in the job search if you're looking to switch industry or function. Your Higher Education Marketing
Newsletter, February 8th, 2006 Visit the Clear Admit MBA Admissions Wiki... to read what people think about their admissions interviews, campus visits, and more at MIT, Cornell, Yale, Harvard, Duke and others. Future students recount their experiences on the quest for a prestigious MBA. Not only is this an excellent site for aspiring MBA students to share and compare details of the admissions process, it also seems a fine place for those with a bent for competitive research. Visit often if MBA admission is of interest. BusinessWeek, June 6th,
2005 Graham Richmond, founder of ClearAdmit, a business school admissions consulting service, says GMAT test prep business hasn't experienced a corresponding downturn, because those who apply are savvier than ever about application techniques. It's unusual for someone to refrain from investing in test prep materials, particularly if the applicant is interested in top-tier schools, Richmond adds. Wall Street Journal College
Journal, September 2004 Consulting services, which range from national players like Kaplan to smaller boutiques and solo practitioners, charge anywhere from $125 an hour for editing an essay to $5,000 to $8,000 for unlimited help on five to seven applications. Graham Richmond graduated from the University of Pennsylvania's Wharton School and then co-founded Clear Admit, an admissions counseling firm in Philadelphia. Many clients are what he calls "overly traditionals" -- people who got top grades at elite colleges, went directly into jobs at brand-name consulting or financial firms and now want to set themselves apart from the countless applicants who did exactly the same thing. (A female first-year student at Wharton sums up the dilemma: "I graduated summa cum laude and got a 700 on my GMATs, but so did a bunch of my classmates. So how do you differentiate yourself?") BusinessWeek, June 17th,
2004 Significant declines in application volume at the top management schools have made the 2003-04 MBA admissions season the year of the applicant. Demand for the degree is lower due to a slow economic recovery, fewer MBA-age workers, and fewer non-U.S. applicants. So schools dipped deeper into their applicant pools to find new MBAs -- and deeper into their coffers to help fund them. "MORE OFFERS." Plenty of evidence, both anecdotal and statistical, shows that applicants were accepted to more B-schools than in years past. Graham Richmond, CEO of MBA-admissions consultants Clear Admit, says he saw clients get 30% more offers of admission than in the 2003 academic year. "Since we haven't totally changed our methods, and since clients are still applying to the same number of programs [on average], this indicates that the schools must be handing out more offers," he says. Back in the more competitive years of 2000 and 2001, Richmond says even his best applicants only had a couple of options, "rarely gaining acceptance to more than one of the top three [schools]." In 2004, his clients are weighing offers from the likes of Harvard, Wharton, Stanford, and Columbia. "It's rare to see the top few schools in such direct competition [for the same students]." The Chronicle of Higher Education,
February 6th, 2002 To the consternation of admissions officials, many college and graduate-school applicants are now hiring online editors to go over their application essays. The editing companies cater to applicants skittish about their writing ability, ambitious to get into the institution of their choice, or just looking for a second opinion. Companies large and small are hawking their virtual red pencils to applicants seeking entry or a return to academe. Not surprisingly, these companies -- with names such as IvyEssays, EssayEdge, and Accepted.com -- emphasize that the personal essay is a crucial part of the application. Many of them advertise that they can improve an applicant's chances of getting into a particular college by helping craft the essay. Some sites edit all kinds of applications, while other focus on a few or even just one type of degree. For example, Clear Admit works exclusively to get applicants accepted into master-of-business-administration programs. Some of the companies help on the essays only, while others guide customers through the entire application process, so that they end up with an integrated package. The Wall Street Journal,
January 10, 2002. …Despite the cost--between $20 and $400 an essay, depending on the length, and up to $3,000 per M.B.A. application--these are boom times for online essay companies. And they're just part of the growing college-preparation market. Some estimate the total market for test prepping, essay editing and application consulting could be as high as $1 billion a year. And it's only going to get bigger. In 1998, 14.5 million students were enrolled in U.S. colleges, but enrollment is expected to reach 17.5 million by 2010. What a service can do best is "stop the applicant
from saying something damaging or politically incorrect"…
Many essay editors claim experience in academia or insider knowledge
of how Ivy League institutions work. Despite the criticisms of some admissions directors, he defends the practice of helping students find an edge, for a fee. After all, he says, "any writer needs feedback." Clear Admit has been called upon by sites like the Economist Online and MBA Podcaster to weigh in on topics of significant interest to MBA applicants. The Economist Online MBA Fair,
October 10th, 2006 Graham Richmond, the co-founder of Clear Admit, talks about admissions strategies and the benefits of using a consultant. Download
the Audio (13.13 mins | 12.1 MB) MBA Podcaster The Clear Admit School Guides are featured in a podcast about informative resources for MBA applicants, which also covers the MBA Tour, the World MBA Tour, and the Forte Foundation. Graham Richmond represents Clear Admit in the interview. "How would you suggest that an applicant use the information in your guides? 'We think that there are four points in the MBA process that a Clear Admit School Guide could come in handy. The first would be if you're thinking about business school and trying to assemble a list of target programs, you could use the Clear Admit School Guides to learn about each school, see how they compare and make some decisions about where you'd fit. The second is in the essay writing process, so [applicants have] already determined which schools they are going to apply to and they purchase the Clear Admit school guides for those programs, read up on them. Then they use that information to bring their essays to life when it comes to incorporating school specific detail into their essays. "The third thing that we've found is that applicants are buying them before they go for an interview at a school and they're looking for a kind of executive summary or research report on the program that they can download and throw in their brief case to read on the plane. Then the last thing that we've found with the guides is that people buy them in the spring when they are trying to make decisions about which program they want to attend. So they might use the career section of the School Guides, in which we compare regional placement, industry placement across all of the leading schools, to hone in on what program might be appropriate for them.'" Download
the Audio (28:35 mins | 10.30 MB) MBA Podcaster In a podcast featuring representatives from the leading firms in the MBA admissions consulting space, Graham Richmond explains what makes Clear Admit unique and comments on how candidates can take full advantage of the service in enhancing their applications. "How can applicants make the most of your services? 'I think the first thing is to start early. Starting early in the process allows the candidate to really have the time to reflect rather than coming to Clear Admit the last week of September with just a set of essays that they want us to review. When they come to us in July or June you can really take the time to think through your candidacy, make the right choices in terms of school selection, in terms of how you're presenting your goals and really think strategically, as opposed to someone who's showing up at the last minute who has already made a number of strategic choices that are sort of irreversible. Starting with us in the beginning allows you to really get the fully tailored approach that we provide.'" Download
the Audio (39:31 mins | 13.50 MB) MBA Podcaster Clear Admit's Graham Richmond offers advice on essay strategy and tips on the writing process in a segment that also features insight from Wharton Director of Admissions Thomas Caleel from and Ben Lohr, Director of MBA Admissions at Notre Dame. "Above all, both admissions directors and admissions consultants all agree that the most important thing to consider is one's fitness for an MBA program. Again, Graham Richmond from Clear Admit: 'But even beyond that, you need to - probably before you even consider schools - take stock of your candidacy. And that's something we actually work with our clients on. It's just getting them to understand who they are, what they bring to the table, where they measure in terms of work experience, academic profile - all the things that go into one's candidacy - extracurricular activities. At the end of the day, before you can properly select schools, you need to know who you are, and what your career goals are, and which schools might be most appropriate - and then beyond that - which topics are going to be most appropriate to select when responding to a school's essay questions because a lot of that is going to come out of what you know about your candidacy and what your message is going to be in this process.'" Download
the Audio (17:33 mins | 6.03 MB) MBA Podcaster Joining Judith Silverman of the Wharton School and a current business school student, Clear Admit's Graham Richmond lends a third perspective in this feature on the practices and perception of admissions consultants. "There's been some controversy over getting that extra help, and it's a likely reason why clients sway the spotlight. Graham Richmond is co-founder of Clear Admit, an MBA admissions consulting service. He says much of the debate originates from services that don't just give helpful advice - like those that will write an essay for you. Richmond says reputable consultancies don't corrupt the admissions process and, instead, perfect it. 'We view ourselves as guidance counselors and coaches, much in the same way when you're in high school, you go to your high school college guidance counselor and you find out about different schools that might fit you... The truth is that most people who are applying to business school are out there in the work force; they're kind of isolated, and unless they have colleagues who are applying, they don't really have someone to talk to about this process. So, that's really the objective - to just provide them with feedback, help sort of walk them through this process, and give them informed feedback on how it works." Download
the Audio (10:45 mins | 9.8 MB) BusinessWeek, October
18th, 2007 We're talking today about finding the "best fit"
business school. I guess, as with clothing, there are plenty of styles
of business school to choose from, but not everything fits everyone
equally. What's the first thing you ask someone when you're trying to
help them pick a business school that's right for them? Manhattan GMAT Blog,
February 27th, 2007 In the inaugural post to their blog, Manhattan GMAT shares the transcript of an interview with Graham Richmond about the role of the GMAT in the admissions process, among other topics. Manhattan GMAT: Why do business schools require applicants to take the GMAT? Graham Richmond: For a variety of reasons. First, they see it as a measure of certain specific math and verbal skills. Second, they see it as a measure of your ability to think under pressure - the exam is timed. Third, it allows them to compare the academic preparation of people from very different backgrounds. A high GPA from one college, for example, may not represent the same level of achievement as a high GPA from another. But the GMAT allows business schools to level the field, so to speak. BusinessWeek, August
16th, 2005 Graham Richmond, co-founder and CEO of Clear Admit,
and Alex Brown, senior admissions counselor, recently fielded questions
from audience members and BusinessWeek Online's Francesca Di Meglio
in an online chat. BusinessWeek, August
19th, 2003 Clear Admit co-founder Graham Richmond has staked his business on giving applicants specialized advice. He and his small team of counselors will advise another 200 MBA wannabes this year on choosing which schools to apply to, plus essay writing, interviewing skills, and what to do if you're waitlisted. Aside from his recent work at Clear Admit, Richmond has experience in the B-schools admissions field dating back to 1995, when he worked at MCS Multi-App, an educational-software startup that offered application aids for business- and law-schools. From 1999 to 2001, he attended the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania, and also worked in the school's admissions office as a student admissions officer, reading hundreds of applications and attending weekly admissions committee decision meetings. Richmond was the guest for a BusinessWeek Online
chat on July 30, 2003. Copyright 2001-2011 Clear
Admit, LLC. All Rights Reserved.
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