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 seeing several top MBA programs continuing to release interview invites for Round 2. Harvard released all their Round 2 interview invites last week. Imperial Business School is scheduled to do the same during this upcoming week. We then discussed our new interview prep tool, Clear Admit’s MBA Interview simulator. This simulator is designed to offer a realistic interview experience for the majority of the top MBA programs, and provide detailed feedback. It is trained on Clear Admit’s extensive catalogue of interview resources including our interview archive and interview guides.
Graham highlighted MBA webinar events that are on the horizon that Clear Admit is hosting. The first webinar series of events is for deferred admissions candidates who are currently completing their first degrees. These are scheduled for the next two Wednesdays. The second series is for MiM programs and are scheduled for February 24 and 25. Signups for both these series are here: https://www.clearadmit.com/events
Graham then highlighted the recent roll out of the 2026 US News rankings for online MBA programs. Indiana / Kelley continues to lead the way. Graham then noted the announcement from Georgetown / McDonough regarding their shortened MBA program for those who have completed a Masters in Management program.
Graham addressed two recently published MBA admissions tips that focus on the interview experience. The first focuses on the five most common MBA admissions interview questions and the second explores some of the more unique b-school interview offerings. Graham then noted a Fridays from the Frontlines piece focused on a student at Duke / Fuqua studying the intersection of climate risk and business.
For this week, for the candidate profile review portion of the show, Alex selected two ApplyWire entries and one DecisionWire entry.
Three MBA Admissions Candidates Reviewed
This week’s first MBA admissions candidate has a 3.87 GPA and works at MBB, and they plan to return – as they are sponsored. They have a 327 GRE score and appear to be a very decent candidate.
This week’s second MBA applicant has a lower GPA of 3.38, but they had to work through university. We think they should target a few more M7 MBA programs.
This week’s final MBA candidate is deciding between a full-ride at Florida / Warrington and a $70k offer from CMU / Tepper.
Returning to MBB
327 GRE, Chicago-based
Warrington vs Tepper
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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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