Weekly Roundup for Clear Admit’s MBA Podcast
In this week’s MBA Admissions podcast we began by discussing the current state of the MBA admissions season. We are continuing to see MBA programs release their final decisions. This upcoming week, UVA / Darden, Berkeley / Haas, Texas / McCombs, Cornell / Johnson, INSEAD, Duke / Fuqua, Vanderbilt / Owen and Michigan State / Broad are releasing final decisions. A few MBA programs are also continuing to their next admissions rounds, including CMU / Tepper and IESE.
Graham highlighted upcoming Clear Admit events. On May 11, Clear Admit is hosting our in-person admissions event in Atlanta. Most top MBA programs are scheduled to attend. We are also hosting several Application Overview events in May, on May 19 and 20, and May 26 and 27. Signups for these events are here: https://www.clearadmit.com/events
Graham continued with the Real Humans Alumni series. This week focuses on three alumni from Fuqua / National Grid Ventures, Haas / Adobe and Johnson / Bain. Graham also highlighted a recently published Fridays from the Frontlines article written by a student from LBS regarding their Global Experience in China.
For this week, for the candidate profile review portion of the show, Alex selected three DecisionWire entries.
Three MBA Admissions Candidates Reviewed
This week’s first MBA admissions candidate is deciding between McDonough and Said. They want to return to the World Bank focusing on development finance.
This week’s second MBA applicant has offers from Tuck, Sloan and Wharton. They are focused on health care, tech and venture capital.
This week’s final MBA candidate is deciding Fuqua, Anderson and Marshall. They want to do consulting in Los Angeles.
McDonough vs Said

Sloan vs Wharton

Fuqua vs Marshall

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This episode was hosted by Graham Richmond and Alex Brown, and produced by Dennis Crowley. Thanks to all of you who’ve been joining us!
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