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Published: September 8, 2019

Admissions Director Q&A: Soojin Kwon of the Michigan Ross School of Business

Welcome to another edition of our series, Admissions Director Q&A! This week, we are excited to feature Soojin Kwon, the Managing Director for Full-time MBA Admissions and Program at the Michigan Ross School of Business. Kwon has led MBA Admissions since 2006 and, since 2016, the student experience and academic advising of the MBA programs. Before joining Ross, Kwon was a Manager in Deloitte’s Strategy and Operations practice. Prior to consulting, she served as a Presidential Management Fellow, doing rotations with the Senate Budget Committee, House Appropriations Committee, and Department of Commerce. Kwon holds an MBA from Ross, a Master in Public Policy from Harvard’s Kennedy School of Government, and a B.A. in Economics and Political Science from Yale. She has served on the boards of the Forte Foundation, Greenhills School, and ETS’ Business School Advisory Council. Clear Admit was thrilled to sit down with Kwon to discuss the brand new +Impact Studio, Michigan Ross’s unique interview process, reflections on 15 years’ of admissions essays, and more. Clear Admit: What’s the single most exciting development, change, or event happening at Michigan Ross in the coming year? Read more

Published: August 28, 2019

MBA News You Need: Duke Fuqua Curriculum Changes, UCLA Anderson on When to Apply, Dartmouth Tuck’s Record-breaking Class Profile and More from Berkeley Haas and Michigan Ross

Each week we collect all the MBA news that’s fit to print and provide a quick overview of the latest updates from top business schools around the world. Here’s your MBA News You Need digest for the week of August 26, 2019. Read more

Published: August 26, 2019

MBA ApplyWire Spotlight: When Should I Apply?

Clear Admit’s MBA ApplyWire is the place to post if you have questions about your MBA candidacy. In this edition of MBA ApplyWire Spotlight, we highlight an MBA applicant who sought advice about when to apply and how to handle their low GPA. Read on for more detail from a candidate considering Columbia, Cornell / Johnson, Duke / Fuqua, Michigan / Ross, Northwestern / Kellogg, NYU Stern, and UCLA Anderson. Clear Admit’s resident admissions expert, Alex Brown, kicked off the conversation: Read more

Published: August 13, 2019

MBA News You Need: Harvard and Yale Talk MBA Applications, Financing Tips from Tuck, and More from Ross and Darden

Published: July 29, 2019

MBA ApplyWire Spotlight: Needing the Numbers and More

As MBA hopefuls consider their chances at the leading business schools, many are posting to Clear Admit’s ApplyWire, an admissions tool for feedback on candidacy, school choice and more. This week, we shine the spotlight on two candidates. The first has some room for improvement with their academic stats while applying to Berkeley / Haas, Columbia, Michigan / Ross, NYU Stern, UCLA Anderson, USC / Marshall, and Yale SOM. Read on for the details. Resident expert, Alex Brown, took the stage, so to speak: Read more

Published: July 22, 2019

MBA ApplyWire Spotlight: A Career in Non-profit

As MBA hopefuls prepare for the 2019-2020 Round 1 and early admissions deadlines, many are posting to Clear Admit’s ApplyWire, a forum for feedback on your final choice of schools and approach to admissions. This week, we shine the spotlight on a candidate with a non-profit background (and potential future) applying to Berkeley / Haas, Michigan / Ross, Penn State / Smeal, UCI Merage, UCLA Anderson, UT Austin / McCombs, and Vanderbilt / Owen. Read on for his profile information and more from our admissions experts. Clear Admit’s resident expert, Alex Brown, kicked off the conversation about coursework, goals, school choice and more: Read more

Published: July 9, 2019

MBA News You Need: MBA Essay Advice from Michigan Ross, Marketing Might at Wharton, Summer Reading from Stanford GSB, and More from Washington Foster and CEIBS

Published: June 30, 2019

The Online MBA: An Increasingly Competitive Alternative

For busy career professionals who can’t afford to take time off of work or who travel or live away from a world-class university, an Online MBA program is a viable option. The latest programs offer incredible flexibility, rigorous curriculum, and a very comparable experience to an in-person MBA. So, it should be no surprise that the online MBA is growing in popularity exponentially. To better understand the landscape of the online MBA and to follow up on our first piece, The Online MBA: Which Programs Matter?, we reached back out to USC Marshall, UNC Kenan-Flagler, Michigan Ross, Indiana Kelley, and CMU Tepper. They allowed us to pick their collective brains even further to unravel the mystery around the online MBA. Read more

Published: June 25, 2019

MBA News You Need: Harvard Launches Joint MBA/MS, Duke Fuqua Updates MBA Application, New Master’s at Yale SOM, and More from UCLA Anderson, and Michigan Ross

Published: June 11, 2019

MBA News You Need: $10M HBS Gift, Tuck Admissions Updates, Ross MBA Road Trips, and More From Kellogg and McCombs

Published: June 2, 2019

The Online MBA: Which Programs Matter?

Have you ever wondered what it would be like to earn your MBA online? We wanted to take an in-depth look at the advantages of an Online MBA program and what it looks like to complete your graduate business education online—how long it will take, what activities will be available to you, and how it will enhance your career. To that effect, we interviewed the admissions staff at some of the top brick and mortar business schools with leading Online MBA programs: CMU Tepper, Indiana Kelley, Michigan Ross, UNC Kenan-Flagler, and USC Marshall. Here’s what we learned. Read more

Published: May 29, 2019

MBA News You Need: New UVA Darden Fellowship, Yale SOM Graduation Recap, Michigan Ross Faculty Award, and More From MIT Sloan and Berkeley Haas

Published: May 21, 2019

MBA News You Need: HBS Admissions Events, Michigan Ross MBA Team at INNOVATEChina, MIT Sloan Hackathon Winner, and More from Yale SOM and Chicago Booth

Each week, we collect all the MBA news that’s fit to print and provide a quick overview of the latest updates from top business schools around the world. Here’s your MBA News You Need digest for the week of May 20, 2019. HBS MBA Admissions Events Harvard Business School is coming to a city near you. This time of year, HBS hosts dozens of events in cities around the world to field admissions-related questions. At each information session, attendees will learn about the application process, connect with local alumni and current students, and hear more about the transformational Harvard MBA experience. Attendees will have an opportunity to to get to know current HBS students. Read more

Published: May 12, 2019

MBA Admissions Brief: Michigan / Ross

In this installment of MBA Admissions Brief, we bring you tips and advice from the Stephen M. Ross School of Business at the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor. Soojin Kwon, Managing Director for Full-time MBA Admissions and Student Experience Soojin Kwon is the Managing Director for Full-time MBA Admissions and Student Experience at Ross. She is also an adjunct lecturer in Ross’ Business Communications department. Soojin joined Ross in 2004 and has led the Admissions Office since 2006. Before joining Ross, Soojin was a Manager in Deloitte’s Strategy and Operations practice, focusing on consumer business clients. Prior to consulting, she was selected as a Presidential Management Fellow and worked in Washington, D.C. for the Senate Budget Committee, House Appropriations Committee, and Department of Commerce. Soojin holds an MBA from Ross, an MPP from Harvard’s Kennedy School of Government, and a B.A. in Economics and Political Science from Yale. She has served on the boards of the Forte Foundation, Greenhills School and ETS’ Business School Advisory Council. She has also served as an alumni interviewer for Yale. Read on for her advice about the Ross application process, choosing recommenders and what you may have to look forward to in Ann Arbor! Read more

Published: April 22, 2019

DecisionWire Spotlight: Duke / Fuqua, Michigan / Ross, or Northwestern / Kellogg for Consulting

In this MBA DecisionWire Spotlight, which highlights MBA candidates’ choices as shared in Clear Admit’s DecisionWire, we take a closer look at a candidate considering Duke / Fuqua, Michigan / Ross, or Northwestern / Kellogg for consulting. The candidate opened the post, seeking advice: Opening feedback acknowledged this is, indeed, a tough decision, and also considered the scholarship: Read more

Published: March 26, 2019

MBA News You Need: LBS Hosts Inaugural Social Impact Week, Ross Alumni Create Scholarships for Healthcare MBAs, Tuck Updates Year-One Curriculum, and More from HBS & Booth

Each week we collect all the MBA news that’s fit to print and provide a quick overview of the latest trending topics from top business schools around the world. Here’s your quick MBA News You Need digest for the week of March 25, 2019. Read more

Published: March 25, 2019

DecisionWire Spotlight: Cornell / Johnson, Michigan / Ross, NYU Stern, or UVA / Darden for Investment Banking

In this MBA DecisionWire Spotlight, which highlights MBA candidates’ choices as shared in Clear Admit’s DecisionWire, we take a closer look at a candidate accepted to Cornell / Johnson, Michigan / Ross, NYU Stern, and UVA / Darden. The candidate is planning a post-MBA career in investment banking and received scholarship offers from Johnson and Ross. Initial feedback was clearer for some more than others: Read more

Published: March 19, 2019

MBA News You Need: Ross Announces Business Challenge Results, NYU Stern Measures Sustainability, Columbia Talks Leadership Lessons from Game of Thrones and More IMD and Yale SOM

Published: March 11, 2019

Podcast Episode 32: Key Takeaways from the U.S. News 2020 MBA Ranking

The 2020 rankings of full-time MBA programs are out from U.S. News & World Report, and our admissions experts, Graham Richmond and Alex Brown, have once again been kind enough to help make sense of them. Before they dig into the rankings, here’s a quick rundown of this year’s top 10, in order of their 2020 rank (2019 rank in parentheses): 1 University of Pennsylvania’s Wharton School (3) 2 Stanford Graduate School of Business (4) 3 Harvard Read more

Published: March 7, 2019

International Women’s Day in the Business School Community

Each year, the business school community takes extra time on International Women’s Day to promote gender parity and celebrate women. Given the plethora of events and related research, we’re rounding up what the top business schools are doing as shared on Twitter. A picture from Cornell / Johnson summarized International Women’s Day in 1,000 words: https://twitter.com/CornellMBA/status/1103999121868886017 Cambridge Judge and Yale SOM held events: Read more

Published: February 26, 2019

MBA News You Need: Tuck Wins Global Challenge, Columbia Revisits Homeownership, Anderson Helps with a Case of the Mondays, and More

Published: January 28, 2019

MBA DecisionWire Spotlight: Brand Influence

In this MBA DecisionWire Spotlight, which highlights MBA candidates’ choices as shared in Clear Admit’s DecisionWire, we highlight a few posts in which brand was an influential factor. Our first candidate gained acceptance to Duke / Fuqua, Michigan / Ross, and UVA / Darden, but wondered about the brand power of a parent university: Community feedback was geared towards personal interest over brand strength: Read more

Published: January 21, 2019

MBA DecisionWire Spotlight: Michigan / Ross or NYU / Stern for Investment Banking

In this MBA DecisionWire Spotlight, which highlights MBA candidates’ choices as shared in Clear Admit’s DecisionWire, we take a closer look at a candidate accepted to Michigan / Ross with a scholarship and NYU / Stern. The candidate had more news to share in the initial post: Clear Admit resident expert, Alex Brown, kicked off the conversation: Read more

Published: January 20, 2019

Understanding the MBA Admissions Interview – Part I

Yale SOM has already released some Round 2 interview invites, according to MBA LiveWire. Michigan Ross released its first wave on Friday of last week. Harvard plans to release its invites in two waves, January 28 and January 31. the MBA admissions world is buzzing about one thing: INTERVIEWS. With so much interview anxiety in the air—and knowing that it only stands to build from here—we’ve decided to devote this week at Clear Admit to all things interview, introducing a series we ran during the last two admissions cycles. We’re getting the ball rolling with the first part Read more

Published: January 6, 2019

Entrepreneurship and the Zell Lurie Institute at Michigan / Ross

Clear Admit recently spoke with Stewart Thornhill, executive director of the Zell Lurie Institute for Entrepreneurial Studies at Michigan / Ross. Our conversation was both insightful and in-depth, digging into details of entrepreneurial offerings at Ross and also covering the general value of entrepreneurship. Whether you’re launching your own company or pursuing other roles post-MBA, read on to learn more about entrepreneurship and Michigan / Ross. Clear Admit: Could you provide an overview of entrepreneurship offerings at Michigan / Ross? Stewart Thornhill: There are probably two major components to any university’s offerings to students of Entrepreneurship; firstly, Read more

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CLASS SIZE: 379

Women: 39%

MEAN GMAT: 731

% INTERNATIONAL: 40%

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May 5, 2026 11:37am ET

Applying: ESMT Berlin, IE Business School, Illinois / Gies, Imperial

Intake Year: 2027

Pre-MBA Career: sustainability consulting, planning, and design

Post MBA Career: Consulting, Undecided, Technology, Undecided

GRE: 322

GPA: 3.5

Years of Work Experience: 9

Location: Washington, DC

Post MBA Location: Washington, DC

Notes:

In addition to my undergraduate degrees in landscape architecture and geography, I also have an MA in geography 3.9 gpa, and a PhD in Architecture. I am currently a VP at my company and a likely candidate for CEO in the near future. I want to continue working while pursuing my MBA to increase my chances of moving into the CEO role. Also, my goal is to start my own ClimateTech firm in the next several years. An MBA will help achieve both of these goals. For each of the selected schools, I would pursue their online MBA program so I can continue working. While I, of course, want to attend a prestigious program, I'm not willing to sacrifice my money or too much of my company's money to spend six figures on an online MBA. That is a part of the driver for the programs I have selected to look at. In the US, it is rare that online programs provide funding; a bit seems to be available at European programs.

May 2, 2026 12:39am ET

Applying: Berkeley / Haas, MIT Sloan, Stanford GSB, Yale SOM

Intake Year: 2027

Pre-MBA Career: Startup/ Strategy Consulting

Post MBA Career: PWC Strategy&, Technology, Other, Oliver Wyman, McKinsey, Consulting

GMAT: 685

GPA: 3.6

Years of Work Experience: 6

Notes:

- International Male, 26, southeast Asian (non-Chinese/indian)
- BEng, top 15% of the class, the best local uni (but unknown outside of the country)
- (0.5Y) Global LDP program of a F500, left early to join consulting
- (2.5Y) at S&, strategy consulting in the field of fintech/ banking, top tier performance (5% of the cohort in the region, early promotion)
- (1Y) Left S&, started my own fintech for underserved teenagers, got pre-seed funding from a tier 2 Banking VC, closed after a year due to regulations change, small scale with multiple impact rewards (20k+ farmers

Goals: Join a fintech in the US (strategy div), or Financial services consulting (like OW, McK) incase i can't secure a fintech position (internationals), with a long term goal of starting another fintech

May 2, 2026 12:38am ET

Applying: Berkeley / Haas, MIT Sloan, Stanford GSB, Yale SOM

Intake Year: 2027

Pre-MBA Career: Startup/ Strategy Consulting

Post MBA Career: Consulting, Other, Technology, PWC Strategy&, Oliver Wyman, McKinsey

GMAT: 685

GPA: 3.6

Years of Work Experience: 6

Notes:

May 1, 2026 9:23pm ET

Applying: Chicago Booth, Columbia Business School, Harvard Business School, London Business School, MIT Sloan, Northwestern / Kellogg, Penn / Wharton, Stanford GSB

Intake Year: 2028

Pre-MBA Career: Finance Technology

Post MBA Career: Morgan Stanley, JP Morgan, Investment Banking, Finance, McKinsey, BCG, Bain, Consulting

GMAT: 715

GPA: 9.16

Years of Work Experience: 5

Location: India

Post MBA Location: USA

Notes:

Education: B.Tech Information Technology (Tier-2 college)
GPA: 9.16/10 (Converted equivalent: 3.91).
Standardized Testing: 715 GMAT Focus (99th percentile equivalent).

Professional Achievements (Bulge bracket investment Bank)
Role: ML Engineer , ~3 YOE now (will have 5 at the time of matriculation).

High-Impact Innovation: Awarded "Most Innovative Project" for three consecutive years (2024 ,2025 and 2026).

Secured 1st Place in 2025 and 2nd Place in 2024 in the Technology Innovation Program

Revenue Generation: Designed and implemented a scalable recommendation system for wealth management that drove a 45% increase in revenue for the targeted segment.

Operational Efficiency: Engineered an Agentic AI system for automated customer support, significantly reducing overhead and optimizing resource allocation.

System Integrity: Spearheaded a performance audit that resolved critical failure rates in cloud-native microservices, ensuring zero-downtime for high-stakes financial data.

Leadership & Civic Engagement
Youth Parliament: Recognized for leadership in simulated legislative environments; developed high-level skills in policy advocacy, structured debate, and consensus-building. Winner of District level in 2025,2026

Strategic Collaboration: Partnered with senior stakeholders to align technical roadmaps with institutional wealth management goals.

Post-MBA Goal
Short-Term: Transition into Investment Banking (IB), specifically within Technology or FinTech coverage groups, leveraging technical depth to advise on M&A and capital markets activity.

Long-Term: Executive leadership within the global financial services ecosystem.

May 1, 2026 9:29am ET

Applying: Berkeley / Haas, Carnegie Mellon / Tepper, Chicago Booth, Columbia Business School, Cornell / Johnson, Dartmouth / Tuck, Harvard Business School, Michigan / Ross, MIT Sloan, Northwestern / Kellogg, Penn / Wharton, Yale SOM

Intake Year: 2027

Pre-MBA Career: Architect turned Management Consultant, working with EY Government Consulting for 1.5 y at time of applications

Post MBA Career: Consulting

GRE: 338

GPA: 3.4

Years of Work Experience: 3

Location: India

Post MBA Location: USA

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May 8, 2026 3:12pm ET

Waitlisted at Duke / Fuqua

Round: Round 1

Received via email May 8, 2026

Standardized Test: GRE

GRE: 313

Program Type: Traditional Two-Year

Post MBA Career: Consulting

Target Career: Consulting

Note:

WL since R1. Not sure if it’s over, even if I wasn’t rejected.

Juno Member: Not yet

May 8, 2026 12:40pm ET

Accepted from Waitlist to Duke / Fuqua

Round: Round 2

Received via phone May 8, 2026

Standardized Test: GRE

GPA: 3.88

GRE: 318

Program Type: Traditional Two-Year

Post MBA Career: Healthcare

Target Career: Technology

Application Location: United States, Lacey

Juno Member: Not yet

May 8, 2026 12:22pm ET

Accepted from Waitlist to Duke / Fuqua

Round: Round 3

Received via phone May 8, 2026

Standardized Test: Executive Assessment (EA)

EA: 150

Program Type: Traditional Two-Year

Post MBA Career: Consulting

Juno Member: Not yet

May 8, 2026 10:47am ET

Accepted from Waitlist to Duke / Fuqua

Round: Round 3

Received via phone May 8, 2026

Standardized Test: GRE

GPA: 3.9

GRE: 311

Program Type: Traditional Two-Year

Application Location: New Jersey

Note:

Waitlisted R3 and accepted in R4 with $! quant was low - completed MBA math, sent 2 updates, talked to current students, sent an additional LoR, showed my genuine interest in Fuqua. Super excited!

Juno Member: Not yet

May 8, 2026 10:15am ET

Accepted from Waitlist to Duke / Fuqua

Round: Round 4

Received via phone May 8, 2026

Standardized Test: Executive Assessment (EA)

GPA: 3.13

EA: 160

Program Type: Traditional Two-Year

Post MBA Career: Consulting, Manufacturing/Automotive/Aerospace

Application Location: Connecticut

Note:

Military applicant. Waitlisted in Round 2 with a 317 GRE and I took the EA while on the waitlist.

Juno Member: Not yet

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