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MBA Wire Taps 491: Airlines to consulting. Startup experience, 685 GMAT. Engineer to banking

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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, UPenn / Wharton, Northwestern / Kellogg, Georgetown / McDonough, Boston College / Caroll, Yale SOM, MIT / Sloan, UCLA / Anderson, Washington / Foster and Washington / Olin are releasing final decisions. A few MBA programs are also continuing to their next admissions rounds, including Toronto / Rotman, Boston College / Carroll and Vanderbilt / Owen.

Graham noted that Clear Admit is 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 four alumni from Mendoza / JP Morgan, LBS / Decisional AI, HEC / CarbonFarm and Kellogg / Amazon. Graham also highlighted new hires in leadership roles at Haas and Tepper.

For this week, for the candidate profile review portion of the show, Alex selected one LiveWire entry and two ApplyWire entries.

Three MBA Admissions Candidates Reviewed

This week’s first MBA admissions candidate works in the airline industry and is seeking an MBA to transition into consulting, in the south.

This week’s second MBA applicant has startup experience in the fintech space and has a 685 GMAT score.

This week’s final MBA candidate is a machine learning engineer for a bulge bracket bank. They want to use the MBA to transition to investment banking.

Airlines to consulting

MBA applicant who works in the airline industry.

Startup experience, 685 GMAT

MBA applicant who has startup and fintech experience.

Engineer to banking

MBA applicant who is a machine learning engineer. Wants to pursue investment banking.

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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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Alex Brown
Alex is a co host for Clear Admit's Wire Taps podcast. He has spent 30 years in the MBA admissions industry, and authored the book: Becoming a Clear Admit: The Definitive Guide to MBA Admissions Alex also teaches digital marketing through executive education programs for London Business School, Imperial College Business School and Columbia Business School.