Admissions Director Q&A
Clear Admit’s exclusive interviews with admissions directors at the world’s leading MBA programs.
Latest Stories About Admissions Director Q&A
Admissions Director Q&A: Bruce Delmonico of the Yale School of Management
We’re continuing our round of interviews with Yale School of Management (SOM) Admissions Director Bruce DelMonico, who has been leading the charge at the New Haven business school since 2006. (A lawyer by training, DelMonico grew tired of sleeping in his office and traveling for weeks on end, so he... Read more »
Admissions Director Q&A: Shari Hubert of Georgetown’s McDonough School of Business
In our continuing series of interviews with admissions directors at leading business schools, we spoke most recently with Shari Hubert of Georgetown’s McDonough School of Business. Hubert joined McDonough last year as associate dean of MBA admissions, where she leads recruitment efforts to attract highly qualified, diverse students to the... Read more »
Admissions Director Q&A: MIT Sloan School of Management’s Dawna Levenson
As we continue to make the rounds, checking in with admissions directors at top business schools around the globe, we had the good fortune recently to speak with Dawna Levenson, director of MBA admission at MIT’s Sloan School of Management. Levenson’s MIT roots run deep. She has an undergraduate degree... Read more »
Admissions Director Q&A: Soojin Kwon of the Ross School of Business
We are thrilled to launch the latest edition of the Clear Admit’s Admissions Director Q&A Series. We began interviewing admissions directors at leading business schools back in 2008, and we circle back regularly to capture changes and new developments in the dynamic field of graduate management admissions. We kick off... Read more »
Admissions Director Q&A: Cristina Sassot of ESADE Business School
In the latest installment of our Admissions Director Q&A Series, we hear from Cristina Sassot, director of admissions at ESADE Business School in Barcelona, Spain. Sassot, who herself obtained an MBA at ESADE in 2008, worked for more than 10 years before that in educational consulting. As director of admissions,... Read more »
Admissions Director Q&A: Hima Badu of the Indian School of Business
Hima Badu oversees admissions and financial aid for the Indian School of Business (ISB), which has campuses in Hyderabad and Mohali. Badu has a background in English literature and a master in management and worked for a marketing agency before joining ISB. In the interview that follows, she shares some... Read more »
Admissions Director Q&A: Sherry Wallace of the University of North Carolina’s Kenan-Flagler Business School
Our 2014 Admissions Director Q&A with Kenan-Flagler’s Sherry Wallace is now available. Sherry Wallace, director of MBA admissions at the University of North Carolina’s Kenan-Flagler School of Business, told us that she wants to make the admissions process as transparent as possible. “There is no advantage to us in our... Read more »
Admissions Director Q&A: IESE’s Itziar de Ros
Itziar de Ros is MBA admissions director and president of the MBA Admissions Committee at IESE in Barcelona, Spain, where she herself obtained an MBA in 2006. After working as a marketing and sales consultant at DuPont, de Ros returned to IESE in 2007, holding roles in admissions, marketing and... Read more »
Admissions Director Q&A: Rodrigo Malta of the University of Texas at Austin’s McCombs School of Business
Our 2014 interview with McCombs’ Rodrigo Malta is available now. Rodrigo Malta, a native of Brazil, moved to the United States for high school and college and ultimately graduated from the McCombs full-time MBA program in 2007. While a student at McCombs, he was highly involved in admissions activities, and... Read more »
Admissions Director Q&A: Katelyn Rosa Stephenson of the McDonough School of Business at Georgetown University
We were lucky enough to catch Katelyn Rosa Stephenson just weeks into her role as interim assistant dean and director of MBA admissions at the McDonough School of Business. But though she is new to heading up admissions, she is not new to McDonough. She joined the admissions staff in March... Read more »
Admissions Director Q&A: Stephan Chambers of the Saïd Business School at Oxford University
Over the past decade plus, Stephan Chambers, the current MBA director at Oxford University’s Saïd Business School, has gotten to watch the school grow from about 50 students to more than 200 and from nowhere in the rankings to the top 20 in the world. Chambers, who is also the... Read more »
Admissions Director Q&A: James Frick of the Tepper School at Carnegie Mellon University
James Frick calls himself a lifer at Carnegie Mellon University’s Tepper School of Business. “I have been at Tepper since 1998,” he says “Scary! How did that happen?” Frick began on the program side, which means that for his first five years there his function was much more working with... Read more »
Admissions Director Q&A: Megan Lynam of Duke University’s Fuqua School of Business
In our most recent interview as part of our continuing Admissions Director Q&A Series, we got to know Megan Lynam, the director of admissions for MBA and MMS programs at Duke University’s Fuqua School of Business. Lynam is no stranger to Fuqua. She earned her MBA there in 2003 and... Read more »
Admissions Director Q&A: MIT Sloan School of Management’s Rod Garcia
An MIT Sloan veteran, Rod Garcia has been at the school for the past 24 years and admissions director for the last 13. Before coming to MIT Sloan in 1988, he worked in admissions at the University of Chicago. In the interview that follows, Garcia reveals that MIT Sloan had... Read more »
Admissions Director Q&A: Ankur Kumar of the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania
~A CLEAR ADMIT EXCLUSIVE~ Ankur Kumar, a Wharton alumna, joined the school’s admissions team three and a half years ago. In 2010 she was promoted to run admissions for the MBA program. Kumar, who received her B.S. in finance from Wharton and her B.A. in economics from the College of... Read more »
