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Published: May 29, 2014

Brown University to Begin Issuing EMBA Degree as Part of Joint Program with IE Business School

The governing body of Brown University voted earlier this month to begin issuing a master’s in business administration for the first time – to graduates of a collaborative 15-month executive MBA program the school has offered since 2011 with Madrid’s IE Business School, according to a report in Bloomberg BusinessWeek. Previously, graduates of the program received a degree only from the Spanish school. In conferring its own degree, Brown now leaves Princeton as the only school among the Ivy League to not issue an MBA degree of any sort. The Brown University Corporation, which governs the Rhode Island university, approved a proposal presented to the faculty earlier this year to beginning issues its own degree to students who complete the EMBA program, which Brown hopes will lead more students to apply to the program, according to the Bloomberg BW article. Read more

Published: May 29, 2014

Fridays From the Frontline

Hello and welcome to Fridays From the Frontline, Clear Admit’s weekly summation of the soliloquies of the b-school blogosphere. This week, even as we are about to announce the winners of the Best of Blogging 2013 contest, we have two new bloggers to feature with interesting and thoughtful updates on the application and admissions process, while current students and recent graduates also share their perspectives. GrantMeAdmission starts off a busy week by outlining how he carefully selected the schools to apply to, along with a list of 8 questions every application should ask before applying. Once finished with that Read more

Published: May 27, 2014

HEC Paris Inaugurates New e-Lab

Earlier this month, leading European business school HEC Paris launched its new e-Lab, a unique space designed to support entrepreneurship, creativity, teamwork and communication through by making high-tech technology available to its students. “The ‘e’ in e-Lab signifies both ‘entrepreneurship’ and ‘electronic,’ emphasizing the close link between the two,” read a release on the HEC Paris website announcing the May 20th inauguration of the new space. Designed for use by HEC Paris students interested in entrepreneurship, the e-Lab features video-conferencing capabilities, walls completely covered in "white board" paint, and portable equipment that can be moved easily to facilitate collaboration. Read more

Published: May 26, 2014

Emory University’s Goizueta Business School Appoints First-Ever African-American Woman Dean

Erika Hayes James, PhD, will become the next dean of Goizueta Business School at Emory University, the school announced earlier this month. James, who will assume her new role on July 15th, comes to Goizueta from the Darden Graduate School of Business Administration at the University of Virginia, where she served most recently as senior associate dean for executive education. “Erika James has all of the qualities that we want for a leader at Goizueta,” Emory Provost Claire Sterk said in a statement. “She brings a background of impressive scholarship and strong skills in academic administration, and she will work collaboratively with faculty, students, staff, alumni and supporters to take the school to the next level—all the while honoring the principled leadership of Mr. Goizueta’s legacy.” Read more

Published: May 22, 2014

Columbia Business School Annual Dinner Rakes in $3.2 Million

A gala event held earlier this month helped raise more than $3 million to fund financial aid, faculty research and entrepreneurial outreach at Columbia Business School, the school reports. The school’s 38th Annual Dinner drew more than 800 people to New York City’s Waldorf Astoria on Monday, May 5th. Setting a record, 60 new donors contributed 11 percent of the $3.2 million in total funds raised. There were 173 gifts in total, consistent with last year. Attendees included 120 current students from the full-time MBA, EMBA and EMBA-Global programs, as well as more than 40 alumni club leaders representing 30 regional alumni clubs, 13 countries, and two affinity clubs, the school reports. Read more

Published: May 21, 2014

UNC Kenan-Flagler School of Business Joined by Growing Number of Partners in OneMBA® Program

Kenan-Flagler was one of the four founding partner schools of the OneMBA® Program. Other founding partners include Mexico’s EGADE Business School Tecnológico de Monterrey (EGADE Business School), Brazil’s Escola de Administração de Empresas de São Paulo da Fundação Getulio Vargas (FGV-EAESP) and Erasmus University's Rotterdam School of Management (RSM) in the Netherlands. This week, OneMBA announced its newest partner, the School of Management at Xiamen University. OneMBA is a global executive MBA program offered in partnership by business schools around the world. In the 12 years since its launch, OneMBA had established a reputation for itself as one of the world’s most unique and diverse international MBA programs, according to Yifeng Shen, dean of the Xiamen University School of Management (SMXMU). “OneMBA's vision and goals reflect those of Tan Kah Kee, the ‘Henry Ford of Asia,’ who founded Xiamen University and its business program in 1921 with the call to serve China while embracing world cultures,” Shen said in a statement. Read more

Published: May 20, 2014

What a Harvard Business School MBA Doesn’t Teach You

With just days to go before he graduates, Harvard Business School (HBS) student Ben Faw compiled a list of things he didn’t learn at HBS into a compelling infographic that quickly became one of the most popular blog posts on LinkedIn earlier this week. Since Clear Admit readers often have HBS in their sights, we thought we’d share some of Faw’s insights here. An army combat veteran, Faw had the idea to dispel some of the misconceptions he thinks people sometimes have about the MBA, and especially about the HBS MBA. With the assistance of fellow classmates and a local startup, he helped create an informative post to tackle the myths one by one. Read more

Published: May 19, 2014

GMAC Corporate Recruiters Survey Reveals Strong Hiring Forecasts for MBAs

Good news for MBAs seeking jobs. The Graduate Management Admission Council (GMAC) released the results of its annual global survey of employers, revealing that 80 percent of business school recruiters plan to hire MBAs in 2014. That’s up seven percentage points from last year and a whopping 30 percentage points over 2009, in the midst of the economic crisis. GMAC’s annual Corporate Recruiters Survey, now in its 13th year, polled 565 employers from 44 countries in February and March, including 32 of the top 100 companies in the FT 500 and 36 of the Fortune 100. GMAC, which administers the GMAT exam, conducts the employers survey in partnership with EFMD and the MBA Career Services and Employer Alliance. Read more

Published: May 18, 2014

The Soaring Price of Business School Networking

A New York Times article this weekend examined the growing number of trips and other “lifestyle experiences” that now compete with academic ones as part of the MBA program at many leading business schools. Even those that don’t offer any form of academic credit can be viewed as valuable networking opportunities that can help position students for jobs upon graduation—worth their steep price tags in the eyes of some. As an example, the Times story lead with a February ski trip to Park City, Utah, that about a third of the MBA class from the University of Texas as Austin’s McCombs School of Business went on. The three-day trip, planned by a student-run group called the Graduate Business Adventure Team, was advertised to cost about $1,000, though final costs may have ended up higher. Read more

Published: May 15, 2014

Harvard, Wharton, Stanford Release Class of 2017 Application Updates

Following the Round 3 notification details that went out to applicants to the Class of 2016 on Wednesday, Harvard Business School (HBS) Admissions Director Dee Leopold wasted no time in looking ahead to the application season for the Class of 2017. In a post to her Admissions Director Blog yesterday, she outlined what prospective applicants should expect in the year ahead. Not to be outdone, Stanford Graduate School of Business and the University of Pennsylvania's Wharton School also released application updates this week. In her post, HBS's Leopold shared the optional “essay” question that applicants will encounter when they look at the application for the Class of 2017, unchanged from last year: Read more

Published: May 14, 2014

Harvard Business School Admissions Coming Soon to a City Near You

Prospective applicants in parts of Europe and Asia will soon have an opportunity to learn more about the Harvard Business School (HBS) MBA program as part of a series of outreach events scheduled for June. Members of the HBS Admissions Board will be visiting Madrid, Milan, Berlin, Shanghai, Seoul and Tokyo between June 9th and 14th. These international events will include a presentation from current HBS students, as well as alumni and a member of the Admissions Board. In several instances, the event will be followed by a reception, giving prospective applicants an opportunity to network with one another and members of the HBS community. Read more

Published: May 13, 2014

Ithaca Mayor Praises Johnson Graduate School of Business Students’ Community Service

Community service projects led by MBA students from Cornell’s Samuel Johnson Graduate School of Business were recognized as part of a recent symposium highlighting leadership through service. Ithaca Mayor Svante Myrick, a 2009 Cornell graduate, praised students from his alma mater for seizing opportunities to volunteer in the community. "I believe that young people like you have the skills that we need in the nonprofit sector that we are not getting," Myrick said. "You have the energy, the creativity, and the moral authority to make change, and it's those things — not experience — that matter." Read more

Published: May 12, 2014

Haas School of Business Raises $250,000 for Socially Responsible Investment Fund

The Center for Responsible Business at UC Berkeley’s Haas School of Business harnessed the power of a new Berkeley crowdfunding platform this semester to raise more than $250,000 for its Socially Responsible Investment (SRI) Fund, the school reports. The center blew past its $100,000 fundraising goal, soliciting donations totaling $126,209 from individuals and corporations, which was then doubled thanks to a matching gift from alumnus Charlie Michaels, BS ’78. Total funds raised came to $252,418. Read more

Published: May 12, 2014

Trivia Tuesday: The Yale SOM Grading System

It’s time again for Trivia Tuesday, in which we examine the distinctive elements that separate the leading MBA programs from their peers. This week, we’re taking a peek into the Clear Admit School Guide to the Yale School of Management in order to share with you an excerpt about the program’s grading policies and grade non-disclosure. “Rather than using numerical or letter grades as a measure of a student’s performance in a course, Yale SOM’s grading system is more closely akin to a pass/fail model. Professors can assign students one of the following four grades: Distinction, Proficient, Pass or Fail. The highest, Distinction, is reserved for unusually high-quality work and is awarded to no more than 10 percent of students taking the course. Meanwhile, Proficient denotes a normal level of achievement in coursework and comfort with the subject matter. Though a grade of Pass is a positive signal at most schools, Yale’s reflects performance that did not meet the level of proficiency, yet was not so lacking that it warranted a failing grade. Finally, the grade Fail reflects a level of Read more

Published: May 11, 2014

MIT Sloan School of Management to Host Technology Innovation and Entrepreneurship Forum in Beijing

MIT Sloan School of Management later this week will host a conference in Beijing focused on the challenges facing entrepreneurs in China, including a cultural focus on efficiency over innovation. The Technology Innovation and Entrepreneurship Forum will take place on Friday, May 17th. “Entrepreneurship is critical for China’s economic development, yet entrepreneurs have to overcome many hurdles,” MIT Sloan Professor and Associate Dean for International Programs and Action Learning Yasheng Huang said in a statement. “Many of those issues are ones faced by all founders, such as retaining good employees and navigating government bureaucracy, but those in the technology sector are pioneering new territory in China.” Read more

Published: May 8, 2014

Yale School of Management to Operate New Leadership Center in Beijing

New center's floor plan; Rendering by M Moser Associates. The Yale School of Management (SOM) will launch and operate a new Beijing center to host leadership programming by schools and centers from across Yale University, the school announced late last month. To inaugurate the new Yale Leadership Center, Yale SOM will host a major conference next fall underscoring the university’s far-reaching engagement with China. The new center is located in Beijing’s central Chaoyang District and will feature advanced technological capabilities to connect Beijing with New Haven and other points around the world for meaningful dialog, the school reports. The center will be home to research, conferences and professional and executive education. It will also provide office spaces for Yale faculty use when in Beijing as well as flexible work space for SOM’s MBA, MAM and PhD students. Read more

Published: May 8, 2014

Fridays From the Frontline

Hello and welcome to Fridays From the Frontline, Clear Admit's weekly roundup of the ruminations of the b-school blogosphere. This week, several of our 2016 applicants weigh in with recommendations, from audio books to MBA programs, while current students take stock of the MBA experience, including the challenges and rewards of transitioning from the military to pursuing an MBA. MBATheNonProfitWay has made a resolution to switch her audio-book listening habit away from fiction to various business related books. The first selection, "The McKinsey Mind" did not fare so well in review. JourneyOfaGMATer took some time to share insights on the definition of 'problem', while Sarah'sMBAJourney hasn't given up on the idea of pursuing the MBA, and is now looking at a Cranfield MBA, although she does have some concerns and is open to other options as well. Read more

Published: May 7, 2014

UC Berkeley’s Haas School of Business to Present Silicon Valley Business Perspective to Chinese Leaders

The Haas School of Business at the University of California at Berkeley this week began a new program through which Berkeley-Haas faculty will present a Silicon Valley perspective on business, innovation and leadership topics to top Chinese leaders, the school announced. Called the Partnership for CELAP and Berkeley-Haas, the three-year pilot program between UC Berkeley’s Haas School of Business and the China Executive Leadership Academy Pudong (CELAP) in Shanghai kicked off with its first session on May 5th. CELAP is one of three preeminent Chinese government leadership academies, providing contemporary leadership development for China’s senior officials. Read more

Published: May 6, 2014

GMAC Introduces New Online Prep Tool for GMAT’s Integrated Reasoning Section

The Graduate Management Admission Council (GMAC), which owns and administers the GMAT, has introduced a new web-based resource to help prospective test-takers prepare for the Integrated Reasoning (IR) section added to the exam in 2012. The Official GMAT® Integrated Reasoning Prep Tool, which launched on April 21st, includes 48 items and answer explanations from the IR section of the GMAT and sells for $19.99. It is the only dedicated Integrated Reasoning prep tool available that contains retired Integrated Reasoning items, according to GMAC. Read more

Published: May 6, 2014

5 Ways To Excel When You Join a Startup

Taking the place of our weekly career strategy column by Ivan Kerbel, Common Bond has offered their take on how to succeed at a startup, no matter what the stage of your career. You've signed the offer and sighed with relief: you're just weeks away from joining an innovative startup in your dream role. If you’ve never worked at a startup before now, you’re in for a wakeup call. You'll enter a completely new professional environment, where you'll face sole ownership of your workstream, turnaround times that occur at light speed, and the chance to actually grow a business. MBAs can bring great things to the table at any firm, but it takes special grit to excel in a startup. Here are five ways to start the summer strong: 1. Learn everything (really) about the company and industry. That weeklong orientation or onboarding period from your last job? Think again. Whether you’re an MBA intern or a full-time hire, don’t assume much training is ahead. Be sure you’re absolutely up-to-date on the industry landscape and your company’s recent initiatives so your employer doesn’t need to clue you in. 2. Prepare beyond your functional area. Cross-functional knowledge is the first step to diving in on day 1 and, ultimately, collaborating with teammates who love working with you. That means that if you’re a finance manager, review the firm’s latest marketing campaigns and PR placements, and if you’re on the design team, learn the names and brand of every investor. Read more

Published: May 5, 2014

UCLA Anderson Finance Professor Named Dean of Full-Time MBA Program

A finance professor recognized with numerous awards for teaching excellence has been named dean of the full-time MBA program at UCLA Anderson School of Management, Anderson Dean Judy Olian announced late last month. Professor Mark Garmaise will assume his new role on July 1, 2014, succeeding Senior Associate Dean Andrew Ainslie, who has been named dean of the University of Rochester’s Simon Business School. “In Mark, we have a combination of remarkable talents – an outstanding teacher who is dedicated to his MBA students, and a trailblazing scholar who infuses his teaching with relevant and emerging research findings,” Olian said in a statement. Read more

Published: May 4, 2014

UPenn’s Wharton School Awards $30K to Slidejoy for 2014 Wharton Business Plan Competition

How would you like to view beautifully designed ads every time you unlock your phone? What if you got paid to do it? Slidejoy, an intelligent Android app designed by a team of Wharton students, is built on precisely that model—and it took top honors in the 2014 Wharton Business Plan Competition last week, the school announced. The Slidejoy team won the $30,000 Perlman Grand Prize at Wharton’s annual Venture Finals on May 1st, where total cash prizes and in-kind services topped $125,000, the school reports. Read more

Published: May 1, 2014

Economist Ranks Top 20 North American MBA Programs, Chicago Booth Leads

In case you missed it, the Economist earlier this week broke out the top 20 North American full-time MBA programs, as a follow-up to its global ranking. As an introduction to this North American-specific list, the Economist calls America the “spiritual home of the MBA,” noting that the first MBA was offered there more than a century ago and that today, U.S. schools dominate the publication's global ranking. (Eight of the top 10 business schools in the worldwide ranking are located in U.S.) Among the Top 20 North American MBA programs, the University of Chicago’s Booth School of Business claimed the top spot (as it did in the global rankings). Among the other highest-ranking North American schools were several prestigious U.S. names, including Dartmouth’s Tuck School of Business, Harvard Business School, the University of Pennsylvania’s Wharton School, MIT Sloan School of Management and Stanford Graduate School of Business. Read more

Published: May 1, 2014

Fridays From the Frontline

Hello and welcome to Friday From the Frontline, Clear Admit’s weekly perusal of the ponderings of the b-school blogosphere. This week, we welcome a new contributor to the FFF blogging family, and hear updates from current students about exciting campus events and activities. Brian Scott is an American about to embark on the MBA journey at INSEAD Fontainebleau. He's launched a blog to document the experience by giving an interesting and informative account of tips he's learned for INSEADers looking to work in the States, post MBA. JourneyofalowGMATer has a post on additional books to read, in order to enhance the classroom experience. Read more

Published: April 30, 2014

Poets&Quants Features Roundup of Best Admissions Advice from Clear Admit’s Jon Fuller

In case you’ve missed it, Clear Admit Admissions Counselor Jon Fuller has been sharing his MBA admissions expertise and answering readers’ questions on the Poets&Quants MBA blog in recent months. Fuller came to Clear Admit last year from the University of Michigan’s Ross School of Business, where he was the senior associate director of admissions for four years. The “Best of Jon” compilation, which ran today on Poets&Quants, features Fuller’s responses to readers’ questions tackling a wide range of topics, from how admissions committees weigh GPAs from tougher majors and programs to how to get off the waitlist. He also serves up some general advice to help prospective applicants avoid repeating mistakes some of their peers have made. Read more

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MBA Applywire

October 28, 2026 2:38pm ET

Applying: Cornell / Johnson, Dartmouth / Tuck, Duke / Fuqua, Georgetown / McDonough, Michigan / Ross, NYU Stern, UCLA Anderson, UT Austin / McCombs

Intake Year: 2028

Pre-MBA Career: Internal Audit/Operations

Post MBA Career: Finance, Asset Management, Bank of New York Mellon, Blackrock, Deutsche Bank, Goldman Sachs, JP Morgan Asset Management, PIMCO, UBS Group

GPA: 3.49

Years of Work Experience: 6

Location: New York

Post MBA Location: New York

Notes:

29, applying R1 2027 for Fall 2028 entry. GMAT Focus not yet taken; targeting ~670. 3.49 GPA, B.B.A. Finance (magna cum laude, full-tuition scholarship) from a state school.
~3 years at GS (margin lending ops to internal audit), now an Audit Manager in internal audit at TD covering Global Markets (fixed income, munis, prime services, counterparty credit risk). Lead audits as Auditor-in-Charge, manage small teams, support regulator exams. Use SQL/Alteryx in audit work. CIA in progress. Fluent in Spanish. Starting Big Brothers Big Sisters volunteering.
Goal: move from risk/controls into strategy or product roles at an established fintech (lending, brokerage, payments). Long term: run a fintech business line.
Schools: Wharton, Columbia, Yale SOM, Tuck, Stern, Fuqua, Ross/Johnson, Georgetown. Planning to use the Consortium for several. Also considering Stern part-time.

October 26, 2026 2:21am ET

Applying: Berkeley / Haas, Carnegie Mellon / Tepper, Chicago Booth, Columbia Business School, Cornell / Johnson, Dartmouth / Tuck, Duke / Fuqua, INSEAD, London Business School, Michigan / Ross, Northwestern / Kellogg, NYU Stern, Oxford / Saïd, Penn / Wharton, Toronto / Rotman, UCLA Anderson, USC / Marshall, UVA / Darden

Intake Year: 2027

Pre-MBA Career: Entrepreneurship

Post MBA Career: Finance, Private Equity, Venture Capital, Real Estate, Undecided, Technology, Undecided

GRE: 333

GPA: 3.26

Years of Work Experience: 5

Location: India

Post MBA Location: US and EU

Notes:

I’ve done a stint at a startup which got acquired by a Singapore based VC firm, post that I was working in my family business.

October 23, 2026 8:46am ET

Applying: Chicago Booth, Cornell / Johnson, Dartmouth / Tuck, Duke / Fuqua, Emory / Goizueta, Harvard Business School, Northwestern / Kellogg, UCLA Anderson, USC / Marshall

Intake Year: 2027

Pre-MBA Career: Tech/Customer Success

Post MBA Career: Consulting

GMAT: 675

GPA: 3.88

Years of Work Experience: 5

Location: Germany

Notes:

Working at a small strategy management software company, currently 4 people.

Athletics (Rowing) have been a big part of my life: Scholarship for US college (captain of D1 team), National team, rowed across the Atlantic and raised $100k for youth development charities during that.

Additionally some mentoring/volunteering.

Likely aiming for consulting post MBA, long term entrepreneurship or sustainability in CPG. Would like to avoid going into debt for the MBA.

October 22, 2026 4:00pm ET

Applying: Berkeley / Haas, Cambridge / Judge, Chicago Booth, Columbia Business School, Dartmouth / Tuck, Harvard Business School, Indian School of Business, London Business School, Northwestern / Kellogg, NYU Stern, Oxford / Saïd, Penn / Wharton, Stanford GSB, Yale SOM

Intake Year: 2027

Pre-MBA Career: Government

Post MBA Career: Consulting, Management Consulting, Technology

GRE: 334

GPA: 7.86

Years of Work Experience: 6

Location: India

Post MBA Location: UsA

Notes:

Profile Review: 334 GRE (170Q), Indian Male (Non-Engineer! / Govt & Diplomacy), Targeting HBS, GSB, CBS, Yale SOM & Oxford Said for Big Tech Public Policy

Hi r/MBA,

I am finalizing my applications for Round 2 and would love a brutal, objective reality check on my profile. I know "Indian Male" is the toughest demographic bucket, but my background is entirely non-traditional (zero engineering, zero IT, zero corporate finance). My career has been spent exclusively in political campaigns, national governance execution, parliamentary policy, and G7 diplomacy.

My primary concern is whether admissions committees will view my varied government/political roles as a cohesive upward trajectory or a disjointed series of job hops, and whether my post-MBA goal makes sense to commercial recruiters.

Here are the details:

Background: 27, Indian Male.

Undergrad: Bachelor of Journalism from DU

Post Graduation: MA in Human Resource Management from JMI

GRE: 334 Total (170 Quant - 89th percentile, 164 Verbal).

Work Experience (5+ Years Total)

My career has been a deliberate progression up the governance chain: from state election campaigns, to drafting laws in Parliament, to national execution, and now bilateral diplomacy.

Current Role (Diplomacy): Political & Economic Officer at a G7 Diplomatic Mission in India.

Previous Role (National Gov Execution): Analyst at a National Government Apex Body.

Previous Role (State Gov Execution): Associate Fellow at a State Legislature.

Previous Role (Legislative): Policy Assistant to a Federal Member of Parliament.

Early Career (Campaigns): Field Research Lead at top Political Consulting Firms.

Extracurriculars & Impact

\* COVID-19 Oxygen Network (April 2021): Built and managed a two-stage verification and routing pipeline staffed by 50 volunteers during the healthcare collapse. Maintained strict operational discipline to prevent routing families to occupied beds, connecting over 1,200 families to verified medical care over two months.

\* Migrant Worker Crisis (April 2020): Volunteered with a labor-rights collective during the sudden national lockdown. Spent three days coordinating directly between two state governments and railway officials to clear transit bottlenecks and secure a special relief train for 500 stranded migrant workers.

Post-MBA Goals

\* Short-Term: Public Policy and Government Affairs Manager at a global tech multinational (Google, Meta, Apple) covering South Asia.

Target Schools

\* Reach: Stanford GSB, Harvard Business School (HBS). Applying to Stanford MPP + HKS MPP ( If possible can be combined with GSB & HBS)

\* Target/Reach: Columbia Business School (CBS), Yale SOM.

\* Target (UK): Oxford Saïd (1-year MBA).

My Questions:

The "Job Hop" Perception: I have had 5-6 distinct roles across campaigns, state assembly, parliament, national execution, and the diplomatic mission. I frame this in my application as a deliberate progression, but will adcoms view this as instability?

Tech Policy Feasibility: Is my goal of transitioning into Big Tech Government Affairs directly from an MBA realistic to adcoms?

School Selection: Given the heavy public-sector/diplomatic background, are there any other programs I should be targeting for massive merit aid?

October 22, 2026 2:16pm ET

Applying: Georgia Tech / Scheller, Michigan / Ross, Minnesota / Carlson

Intake Year: 2027

Pre-MBA Career: Food production and Agriculture Technology

Post MBA Career: Consulting, Deloitte, Ernst & Young, PWC Strategy&

GRE: 334

GPA: 2.5

Years of Work Experience: 8

Location: Ghana

Notes:

I am currently in operations and my post mba goal is to pivot into supply chain consulting. My undergraduate degree was in English and it was 10 years ago. I have a master’s in logistics and supply chain management with a 4.0 GPA. Applied to round one and got waitlisted by Gtech Scheller and UTK Haslam.
Wonder what I could be doing wrong

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October 29, 2026 7:23am ET

Waitlisted at UVA / Darden

Round: Early Decision

Received via email on October 27, 2026

Standardized Test: Granted Waiver

Program Type: Traditional Two-Year

Application Location: India

Juno Member: Not yet

October 29, 2026 6:39am ET

Accepted to UVA / Darden

Round: Early Decision

Received via portal on October 27, 2026

Standardized Test: GMAT

GPA: 3.9

GMAT: 625

Program Type: Traditional Two-Year

Post MBA Career: Consulting

Application Location: Uzbekistan

Juno Member: Yes

October 29, 2026 3:28am ET

Rejected at Penn / Wharton

Round: Round 1

Received via portal on October 27, 2026

Standardized Test: GRE

GPA: 8.02

GRE: 340

Program Type: Traditional Two-Year

Post MBA Career: Finance, Investment Banking

Application Location: Mumbai, India

Juno Member: Not yet

October 29, 2026 2:29am ET

Accepted to UVA / Darden

Round: Early Decision

Received via phone on October 27, 2026

Standardized Test: GMAT

GPA: 8.71/10

GMAT: 675

Program Type: Traditional Two-Year

Application Location: India

Note:

Applied 9 sep, interview invite 12th sep. This year calls went out on day of results (dont track T-1), received phone call at 9pm IST of 28th Oct, Accepted with scholarship. Super pumped oof.

Juno Member: Not yet

October 29, 2026 12:06am ET

Interview Invite to Penn / Wharton

Round: Round 1

Received via email on October 27, 2026

Standardized Test: GMAT

GPA: 3.2

GMAT: 695

Program Type: Traditional Two-Year

Post MBA Career: Finance, Private Equity

Application Location: Europe

Juno Member: Not yet

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