Real Humans of MBA Admissions
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Real Numbers of MBA Admissions: Average GRE Scores by Top U.S. Business Schools
Average GRE scores by business school can provide applicants with a sense of the rigor of the MBA program, expectations of the adcom and general competitiveness of the applicant pool. While the GMAT used to be the only accepted admissions exam at leading MBA programs, many have opened up to... Read more »
Real Humans of MBA Admissions: Blair Mannix of the Wharton School
Blair Mannix, Director of Admissions, The Wharton School Just a few weeks ago, we had the pleasure of getting to know Blair Mannix, the Director of Admissions at the Wharton School. Working in admissions for 13 years and counting, Mannix took on the mantle of Director of Admissions in the... Read more »
Podcast Episode 36: Admissions Q&A with Wharton’s Blair Mannix
Blair Mannix, Director of Admissions, The Wharton School We are excited to bring you our latest podcast with the Director of Admissions at UPenn / Wharton, Blair Mannix! Mannix has had a healthy admissions career—13 years and counting—beginning with the Office of Undergraduate Admissions at the University of Pennsylvania. After... Read more »
Real Humans of MBA Admissions: Pascal Michels of IESE
Our Real Humans of MBA Admissions Series this week takes us to beautiful Barcelona, where we caught up with Pascal Michels on what he tells us was the first day his new job as head of IESE MBA admissions began to feel real. In fact, he stepped into the role... Read more »
Real Humans of MBA Admissions: Stanford GSB’s Kirsten Moss
Stanford Graduate School of Business (GSB) announced this past spring that Kirsten Moss would fill the void left by Derrick Bolton, who led admissions for the most selective business school in the world for 15 years. Moss, who assumed her new role in June, becomes the only person to ever lead admissions... Read more »
Real Humans of MBA Admissions: Haas Dean Rich Lyons
Though we usually feature admissions officers in this space, we recently had a chance to sit down with Dean Richard Lyons of UC Berkeley’s Haas School of Business and couldn’t resist learning a little bit more about who he is as a person and how that influences the school he... Read more »
Real Humans of MBA Admissions: INSEAD’s Virginie Fougea
We were delighted at last month’s Graduate Management Admission Council (GMAC) annual conference in San Francisco to catch up with admissions directors from top business schools from around the globe. Among them was Virginie Fougea, INSEAD director of MBA recruitment and admissions, who we hope racked up plenty of frequent... Read more »
Real Humans of MBA Admissions: UCLA Anderson’s Alex Lawrence
An alumnus of the UCLA Anderson School of Management, Alex Lawrence knows the school and its admissions process inside and out. He’s served as assistant dean and director of MBA admissions for the past five years. Before that he spent eight years as executive director of Anderson’s Riordan Programs, a... Read more »
Real Humans of MBA Admissions: Rebekah Lewin of the University of Rochester’s Simon Business School
It’s early summer, which means that admissions directors have emerged from reading applications for a brief window of time before hitting the road to recruit the next batch of candidates. And that’s afforded those of us here at Clear Admit the opportunity to connect with many of them and reprise... Read more »
Real Humans of MBA Admissions: ESADE’s Cristina Sassot
Cristina Sassot joined the admissions team at Barcelona’s ESADE Business School in October 2008, soon after she earned her own MBA there. In 2010 she was promoted to director of admissions and has held the role ever since, helping craft the classes for the school’s 12-, 15- and 18-month full-time... Read more »
Real Humans of MBA Admissions: Carlson School of Management’s Linh Gilles
Earlier this month, we had the pleasure of getting to know Linh Gilles, director of admissions and recruiting at the University of Minnesota’s Carlson School of Management. She’s been in admissions at Carlson for the past decade and in the director’s role since 2012, but she also knows the school... Read more »
Real Humans of MBA Admissions: Alison Merzel of OSU’s Fisher College of Business
Returning to our popular series after a brief hiatus, we are pleased today to share a little about the real human who helps lead MBA admissions at the Ohio State University Fisher College of Business. Alison Merzel is senior director of graduate recruiting, admissions and financial aid at Fisher, a... Read more »
Real Humans of MBA Admissions: Christie St-John of Vanderbilt’s Owen School of Business
We were delighted to connect last week with Christie St-John, who heads MBA admissions at Vanderbilt University’s Owen Graduate School of Management. St-John describes her career as “zig-zaggy,” referring to the fact that she started at Vanderbilt back in 1997 before zigging to Dartmouth’s Tuck School of Business for nine years... Read more »
Real Humans of MBA Admissions: UC Berkeley Haas’s Morgan Bernstein
Morgan Bernstein is currently in her first year as executive director leading the full-time MBA admission team at UC Berkeley’s Haas School of Business, having taken over last March for Stephanie Fujii, who held the role for four years before that. “I’m excited about growing my team, learning, figuring out... Read more »
Real Humans of MBA Admissions: UC Berkeley Haas’s Peter Johnson
We are looking forward to connecting soon with Morgan Bernstein, current admissions director at UC Berkeley’s Haas School of Business. In the meantime, we’re delighted to have caught up with Peter Johnson, who formerly held Bernstein’s role and has recently returned to Haas as assistant dean, full-time MBA program and admissions.... Read more »
