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MBA Wire Taps 489: McDonough vs Said. Sloan vs Wharton. Fuqua vs Marshall

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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, 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

MBA applicant deciding between Oxford / Said and Georgetown / McDonough.

Sloan vs Wharton

Fuqua vs Marshall

MBA candidate choosing between Fuqua, Anderson and Marshall.

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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.