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Published: October 31, 2018

Real Humans of the Stanford GSB MBA Class of 2020

Nearly 8,000 MBA hopefuls sought a seat in the classrooms of the prestigious Stanford Graduate School of Business (GSB), but only 419 secured their place in the Class of 2020. In this edition of our Real Humans of the MBA Class of 2020 series, we catch up with four GSB MBA first-year students who defied the odds and joined this exceptional class. First, let’s take a look at overall class profile statistics to better understand the latest set of students selected to pursue the school’s mission, “Change lives. Change organizations. Change the world.” Stanford keeps its classes Read more

Published: October 29, 2018

Real Humans of the Wharton MBA Class of 2020

Have you been anxiously awaiting an invitation to interview at the University of Pennsylvania’s Wharton School? What better time to learn more about the school’s current first-year MBA class? You’re in luck, because the latest installment in our Real Humans series today features the Wharton MBA Class of 2020. But before we introduce you to individual members of that class, we’ll paint a picture of the class as a whole using these stats published as part of the class profile. “This class is an impressive collection of leaders from all walks of life, backgrounds, nationalities, industry experiences, Read more

Published: September 26, 2018

Real Humans of the UC Berkeley Haas MBA Class of 2020

UC Berkeley’s Haas School of Business is a world-class institution that prides itself on its culture. Beyond simply training them for future careers in the business world, Haas teaches its students to adhere to a set of defining principles designed to ensure that they become responsible, effective leaders who consider the future when they make decisions. The distinctive Haas culture is fostered in part by its close-knit student body. Although it welcomed its largest-ever class this fall—291 students—Haas remains one of the smallest classes among elite MBA programs. It is also one of the most academically Read more

Published: September 24, 2018

Real Humans of the MIT Sloan MBA Class of 2020

Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) is so renowned for the brilliant STEM minds it consistently produces that it can be easy to overlook that it’s also home to the MIT Sloan School of Management, of the world’s premier business institutions. Across disciplines, MIT seeks out only the highest caliber students. Nowhere is this more evident than in the MIT Sloan MBA Class of 2020 profile recently published by the school. Sloan received 5,560 applications this year, off slightly from the 5,798 applications that came in for the Class of 2019. But despite Read more

Published: September 10, 2018

Real Humans of the Yale SOM MBA Class of 2020

With students flooding back to business school campuses around the globe, we are thrilled to kick off our Real Humans of the MBA Class of 2020 series with this spotlight on members of the incoming Yale School of Management (SOM) first-year class. Last year’s series—our first ever—was hugely popular with our audience, and we’re hoping this year will be the same. We’re also pleased to include many more schools this year, close to 40 in all! We plan to publish two per week, so stay tuned to learn more from students at all the schools you may Read more

Published: May 31, 2018

Georgetown McDonough Increases Veterans Graduate Program Scholarships

Starting in fall 2018, Georgetown University’s McDonough School of Business will increase its funding for veterans enrolled in graduate programs as part of the Yellow Ribbon GI Education Enhancement Program. The increase will provide students with $15,000 per year from Georgetown McDonough (up from $10,000 in previous years), resulting in a total of $30,000 annually thanks to a matching gift from the Department of Veterans. Read more

Published: May 13, 2018

Real Humans of the Columbia Business School MBA Class of 2019

As first-year MBA students at Columbia Business School (CBS) finish up their finals and head off to their summer internships, we’re excited to feature a handful of the MBA Class of 2019 reflecting on what led them to choose CBS for business school and how their experience so far has met—or exceeded—their expectations. Though still in Uris Hall on the main Columbia University campus, CBS will occupy state-of-the-art facilities as part of the Manhattanville campus currently under construction a little farther uptown within the next few years. But even with its new home still a few years Read more

Published: April 12, 2018

Fridays from the Frontline: 5 Reasons to Attend Tuck Military Visit Day in the Spring

Fridays from the Frontline Many business schools have stepped up their veteran outreach in recent years. In addition to government-subsidized financial aid unique to military personnel, like the Post-9/11 G.I. Bill and the Yellow Ribbon Program, a handful of schools also offer fellowships like Olin’s Veterans Association Scholarship. Conferences, events, and panels specific to military personnel are a major component of these outreach efforts. One example is the upcoming Military Visit Day at Dartmouth’s Tuck School of Business, designed to introduce vets to school’s singular campus culture. It will take place on Sunday, April 29th and Monday, April 30th. In today’s Read more

Published: March 14, 2018

MBA News You Need: Student Visas Fall, Tuck Welcomes Olympians, Stanford Debuts New Virtual Campus Platform, INSEAD Celebrates Women, and More

Each week we collect all the MBA news that’s fit to print to give you a quick overview of the latest trending topics from top schools around the world. Here’s your quick MBA News You Need digest for the week of March 15, 2018. Number of International Student Visas Decreases, Due in Part to Immigration Policies In 2017, 17 percent fewer F-1 student visas were issued than in 2016—78,000 fewer visas overall. For Indian and Chinese students, the decline was even higher, at 28 percent and 24 percent fewer visas respectively. Why the dramatic decrease in U.S. visas issued to Read more

Published: March 6, 2018

Real Humans of the IESE MBA Class of 2019

Our Real Humans of the MBA Class of 2019 series takes us this week to lovely Barcelona, Spain, where students at IESE Business School have just taken part in “Multi-Culti,” one of the most highly anticipated social events of the year. It’s a half-day shindig that lets the school show off its true international spirit through regional dance, dress, and food from the dozens and dozens of countries and regions its students call home. From all the accounts we heard, it lived up to the hype. The school is also basking in its recent third-place rank among business schools in Europe in the Financial Times 2018 Global MBA Ranking, released in January, up from fifth the year before. And just earlier this week, IESE placed second in Europe in the FT’s just-released Top MBAs for Women ranking, and 14th globally. Read more

Published: February 13, 2018

Five Tips for Keeping Love Alive in Business School

This is an oldie but a goodie from the Clear Admit archives—as applicable this Valentine’s Day as it was last year. Enjoy! As any business school student will tell you, the pressures of a top-tier MBA program can be overwhelming. And as anyone who’s been in a romantic relationship can attest, care and attention are required to keep things on track. Trying to tackle both simultaneously definitely presents some challenges, but couples from a range of leading schools assure us it can indeed be done. In honor of Valentine’s Day, they’ve generously shared their tips for keeping love alive in Read more

Published: November 9, 2017

How McCombs Helps MBA Student Veterans Tackle Re-Entry Into Civilian Life

Returning to civilian life can be difficult for military veterans. In fact, in some cases, a veteran may never even have applied or interviewed for a civilian job before. Then—as U.S. Veterans Magazine. recently described—there’s the difficulty of trying to transcribe military duties into practical skills that a company could understand. Veterans may also face challenges like PTSD and service-related disabilities, as well as being older and having a different life situations than their classmates. According to a 2016 survey by Student Veterans of America, 80 percent of student veterans are over the age of 25 and 46 percent have children—this includes both undergraduate and graduate students. That’s why many top MBA programs such as UT Austin’s McCombs School of Business offer a variety of support programs to help military veterans make the transition between active duty and school. Read more

Published: October 22, 2017

Real Humans of the Yale SOM MBA Class of 2019

They speak roughly 50 different languages between them—from American Sign Language to Yoruba. Not only that, 70 percent of the Yale School of Management (SOM) MBA Class of 2019 speaks two languages, and more than a quarter—27 percent—speaks at least three. As their linguistic abilities might hint, the group heralds from 48 different countries, and 45 percent of the class holds non-U.S. passports. Yale SOM Assistant Dean for Admissions Bruce Delmonico was excited to share with us earlier in the summer that application volume was up 12 percent over last year, with nearly 4,100 eager applicants Read more

Published: October 5, 2017

Fridays from the Frontline: A Veteran and Family Man Chose Wharton—Here’s Why

Today’s Fridays from the Frontline comes to us from the University of Pennsylvania’s Wharton School and features a recent alumnus, George Dutile, who graduated last spring and now works in private wealth management for Goldman Sachs in New York. Dutile came to Wharton from the military with the goal of making a career transition. Check. He also came to strengthen his family, which he’d live apart from over the course of many overseas deployments with the Marine Corps Special Operations unit. Check. Read on to learn how Wharton was the place for him to achieve both Read more

Published: October 2, 2017

Real Humans of the MIT Sloan MBA Class of 2019

Moving right along in our Real Humans student series, today we get to meet a handful of students in the MIT Sloan Class of 2019. But first a little about the class as a whole. By the numbers: the incoming class of 404 students boasts an average GMAT score of 722 and an average undergraduate GPA of 3.49. Both represent a tiny backslide from the prior year, when they were 724 and 3.5 respectively. International students make up a third of the class, which is also a decrease from 39 percent in Read more

Published: October 1, 2017

Admissions Director Q&A: Pascal Michels of IESE Business School

We got to know Pascal Michels, who started in his new role as head of admissions at IESE Business School this summer, as part of our Real Humans of MBA Admissions series earlier this month. Now we’re excited to feature a more in-depth interview that delves into the admissions process and team he oversees. Michels is new to admissions, but far from new at IESE. A 2010 graduate of the MBA program himself, he headed from business school to Citigroup in London, where he worked in financial management for three years. But Read more

Published: September 27, 2017

Real Humans of the NYU Stern MBA Class of 2019

New York University’s Stern School of Business got the party started this summer as the first leading business school to share a profile for its incoming Class of 2019. That profile, published in late July, revealed a 4 percent uptick in application volume over the prior year. At the same time, the school admitted significantly fewer students—822 this year as compared to 871 last year—which means that those who got in did so against greater odds. This increased selectivity may have contributed to the rising GMAT scores among those who got the Read more

Published: September 20, 2017

Real Humans of the Darden Class of 2019

Every fall, a new class of first-year MBA students steps onto campus at leading business schools around the world. The hard-nosed competition and nail-biting anxiety of getting in is behind them. The adventure of transforming themselves and their careers while benefiting from the best graduate education imaginable is ahead. The schools are proud of the classes they curate and eager to tout what makes them special. At the University of Virginia’s Darden School of Business, for example, the full-time residential MBA Class of 2019 of 326 students boasts the highest average GMAT Read more

Published: July 20, 2017

Darden Debuts MBA Application Tip Video Series Amid MBA Program Leadership Changes

Sara Neher, long-time assistant dean of admissions at UVA’s Darden School of Business, recently announced the debut of a 12-part MBA application tip video series for the 2017-18 admissions season. The brief videos—each between three and five minutes long—cover individual components of the application and are designed so that applicants can watch them all at once and/or return to them one by one as they work on different parts of the application. “I really encourage you to watch them because they will give you tips that will help you prevent mistakes and know what we are looking for,” explained Neher in an introductory video. “We do mean for the application to be pretty straightforward, but I think it always help to have a few extra tips and a little bit of thought behind what the questions are really asking.” Read more

Published: March 16, 2017

Fridays from the Frontline: MBA Mama and Stanford GSB Student Valerie Rivera

This week's Friday from the Frontline comes to us via our content partner, MBA Mama, an online platform designed to share the stories of women successfully navigating both motherhood and the MBA. As its January Mama of the Month (MotM), MBA Mama featured second-year Stanford Graduate School of Business (GSB) MBA student Valerie Rivera. Mom to 11-year-old twin boys, Rivera is also a 15-year veteran of the U.S. Air Force, where she held various leadership positions. Don't miss MBA Mama's exclusive interview with Rivera, below, in which she talks about why she chose Stanford for her MBA and what she's liked most about her time there, some of the time management strategies she employs to keep up with family, school and career, and her plans to open a consulting firm after she graduates. Our thanks to MBA Mama for allowing us to share this interview with the Clear Admit audience. Read more

Published: February 9, 2017

Fridays from the Frontline: From Herat to Haas, An Afghan Student’s Journey

Today’s Friday from the Frontline is a bit of a departure from our usual practice of sharing first-person accounts—but the story of Sal Parsa on the Berkeley Haas blog so captivated us that we wanted to make sure the Clear Admit audience didn’t miss it. Below, learn how Parsa went from sewing clothes in a Taliban-ruled Afghanistan to serving as president of the Haas Data Science Club while also working to get a career guidance platform startup off the ground. It’s inspiring, to say the least. Our thanks to Haas and Parsa for allowing us to share the story here. Read more

Published: January 25, 2017

If at First You Don’t Succeed…You May End Up Stronger for It, Says Columbia Professor

Who knew there was an “intelligent way of failing”? According to Columbia Business School Professor Rita McGrath, there is indeed—and put into practice it can actually make organizations stronger. McGrath, a leading expert on strategy and disruption, outlined four key principles to intelligent failure in a recent video on the CBS website. In short, she offers this advice: “Stop worrying about the rate of failure—fail fast, fail cheap, move on.” According to McGrath, the four keys to failing intelligently begin with knowing what success should look like. “You would be amazed at Read more

Published: January 4, 2017

Stanford Ignite Program Celebrates 10 Years, With No Signs of Slowing

The final weeks in December for many mean last-minute gift shopping, overindulgence with friends and family, a winding down of work and the culmination of another year. All of that may well have been afoot at Stanford Graduate School of Business (GSB) last month, but so, too, was a celebration of a 10-year-old program that has helped foster innovation and entrepreneurship around the globe—one that shows no signs of slowing down. On December 20, 2016, Stanford GSB marked the 10th anniversary of Stanford Ignite, a unique certificate program that sets out to help non-business graduate students—those in medicine, science or engineering, for example—get a crash course business education, learning the business fundamentals they need to transform an innovative idea into a real company from renowned Stanford GSB professors and alumni. Read more

Published: December 28, 2016

Johnson Welcomes Vets as Part of Annual Military Preview Event

With an ever-increasing enrollment of military veterans at the Samuel Curtis Johnson Graduate School of Management at Cornell University, the school recently welcomed a new group of distinguished prospective applicants on campus. Johnson hosted 30 military veterans last month, part of its annual Military Preview event held each year on or close to Veteran’s Day. Johnson Dean Mark Nelson welcomed them. “We are committed to maintaining and growing that proportion,” Nelson said. "Veterans bring a wealth of leadership experience and capability to Johnson and are a great fit to the culture of the school." Read more

Published: December 28, 2016

Top 10 MBA LiveWire Threads of 2016

As the new year approaches, those of us here at Clear Admit can’t seem to resist getting on the “Best of 2016” list bandwagon. Forgive us! Looking back on the year, we thought we’d take this opportunity to highlight some of the best conversations that have ensued between applicants on MBA LiveWire. Though not immune to occasional trolling, the activity on LiveWire has been overwhelmingly positive, with applicants from all over the world asking one another for admissions intel and decision advice or simply commiserating about how torturous it can be waiting to hear word from your top choice school. Read more

MBA Applywire

October 14, 2026 2:04pm ET

Applying: Berkeley / Haas, Chicago Booth, Columbia Business School, Dartmouth / Tuck, Duke / Fuqua, INSEAD, London Business School, Michigan / Ross, MIT Sloan, Northwestern / Kellogg, Oxford / Saïd, Penn / Wharton, Stanford GSB, Yale SOM

Intake Year: 2027

Pre-MBA Career: Consulting

Post MBA Career: Energy, Other Industries

GRE: 333

GPA: 3.4

Years of Work Experience: 7

Location: India

Post MBA Location: US/Europe

Notes:

2 years in family business after undergrad. And in my 4th job in 5 years - have been working with BCG as consultant on contract for 2 years now (project has social impact - affordable digital access angle)

Worked for 2.5 years in social impact sector. Before that 1 year 3 months in KPMG as data science consultant.

October 13, 2026 1:16pm ET

Applying: Columbia Business School, Duke / Fuqua, MIT Sloan, Northwestern / Kellogg

Intake Year: 2027

Pre-MBA Career: Technology

Post MBA Career: Consulting

GRE: 167

GPA: -

EA: 167

Years of Work Experience: 6

Post MBA Location: US

October 6, 2026 7:05pm ET

Applying: Cornell / Johnson, Dartmouth / Tuck, Duke / Fuqua, Harvard Business School, Michigan / Ross, Northwestern / Kellogg, UVA / Darden, Yale SOM

Intake Year: 2027

Pre-MBA Career: NGO

Post MBA Career: Consulting

GRE: 320

GPA: 3.79

Years of Work Experience: 7

Location: NYC

October 3, 2026 10:42pm ET

Applying: Duke / Fuqua, Indiana / Kelley, Michigan / Ross, Northwestern / Kellogg, Notre Dame / Mendoza, UVA / Darden

Intake Year: 2027

Pre-MBA Career: Operations strategy

Post MBA Career: Consulting, Other Industries

GMAT: 645

GPA: 2.96

Years of Work Experience: 8

Location: USA

Post MBA Location: Midwest

Notes:

Veteran. Company sponsored.

October 2, 2026 2:40pm ET

Applying: Chicago Booth, Harvard Business School, Northwestern / Kellogg, Penn / Wharton, Stanford GSB

Intake Year: 2027

Pre-MBA Career: Analytics Consulting

Post MBA Career: Consulting

GRE: 333

GPA: 3.56

Years of Work Experience: 4

Location: India

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MBA LiveWire

October 16, 2026 11:34pm ET

Accepted to Duke / Fuqua

Round: Early Decision

Received via phone on October 14, 2026

Standardized Test: Executive Assessment (EA)

EA: 154

Program Type: Traditional Two-Year

Post MBA Career: Consulting

Application Location: United States, Richmond Hill

Juno Member: Not yet

October 16, 2026 10:58pm ET

Interview Invite to Stanford GSB

Round: Round 1

Received via email October 16, 2026

Standardized Test: GMAT

GMAT: 675

Program Type: Traditional Two-Year

Post MBA Career: Technology

Juno Member: Not yet

October 16, 2026 8:00pm ET

Rejected at Chicago Booth

Round: Round 1

Received via email October 16, 2026

Standardized Test: GMAT

GPA: 3.85

GMAT: 695

Program Type: Traditional Two-Year

Post MBA Career: Finance

Application Location: India

Juno Member: Not yet

October 16, 2026 7:53pm ET

Rejected at Chicago Booth

Round: Round 1

Received via portal October 16, 2026

Standardized Test: GMAT

GPA: 2.9

GMAT: 775

Program Type: Traditional Two-Year

Post MBA Career: Consulting, McKinsey, Health Care, Providers

Application Location: South Asia

Juno Member: Not yet

October 16, 2026 7:26pm ET

Rejected at Chicago Booth

Round: Round 1

Received via portal October 16, 2026

Standardized Test: GMAT

GMAT: 705

Program Type: Traditional Two-Year

Post MBA Career: Finance, Investment Banking

Application Location: Australia

Juno Member: Not yet

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