Admissions Director Q&A
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Podcast Episode 30: Admissions Q&A with Wharton Lauder’s Kara Keenan Sweeney
Do you have your sights set on a career in international business? Do you want to polish your language skills and spend your MBA experience immersed in other cultures? Wharton offers a joint-degree program—the MBA with an MA in International Studies—with Penn’s Joseph H. Lauder Institute of Management & International Studies... Read more »
A Conversation with Kirsten Moss of Stanford GSB
Clear Admit recently sat down with Kirsten Moss, who leads MBA admissions at Stanford Graduate School of Business. Our conversation was both insightful and incredibly wide-ranging–covering topics like leadership, application essays, admissions interviews, and financial aid. What follows is the transcript of our conversation. Moss starts by covering the importance... Read more »
Admissions Director Q&A: Bruce DelMonico of the Yale School of Management
Yale School of Management (SOM) Admissions Director Bruce DelMonico has been leading the charge at the New Haven business school since 2006. This past summer, Clear Admit’s Jeanette Brown had an enlightening conversation with the admissions gatekeeper. Read on for more about the ins and outs of admissions at Yale... Read more »
Admissions Director Q&A: Judi Byers of Cornell University’s S.C. Johnson Graduate School of Management
Clear Admit is delighted to share admissions insights from Judi Byers, the Executive Director of Admissions & Financial Aid at Samuel Curtis Johnson Graduate School of Management. This past summer, Clear Admit’s Jeanette Brown had an enlightening conversation with Byers. Read on for more about the ins and outs of admissions at Johnson,... Read more »
Admissions Director Q&A: Morgan Bernstein of UC Berkeley / Haas
Clear Admit is delighted to share admissions insights from Morgan Bernstein, the Executive Director of Full-time MBA Admissions at UC Berkeley / Haas. Bernstein was part of the admissions team for five years before stepping into her current role, and she knows things from the other side as well. A... Read more »
Admissions Director Q&A: Soojin Kwon of Michigan’s Ross School of Business
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 are thrilled to continue the Clear Admit’s Admissions Director Q&A Series with Soojin Kwon, who has led MBA... Read more »
Admissions Director Q&A: Shari Hubert of Duke’s Fuqua School of Business
Anyone anxiously awaiting an interview invitation from Duke’s Fuqua School of Business? Well, we can’t make them roll out any sooner—but we can offer you something you should read while you wait. Shari Hubert, who had been in charge of admissions at Georgetown’s McDonough School of Business since 2013, choose to... Read more »
Podcast Episode 21: Admissions Director Q&A with Cornell Johnson’s Judi Byers
We got to catch up with Judi Byers, executive director of admissions and financial aid at Cornell’s Johnson Graduate School of Management, earlier this year for an in-depth interview on the admissions process she oversees. Today, we’re delighted to share a recording of that conversation as the latest episode in... Read more »
Podcast Episode 18: London Business School Admissions Director Q&A
This week we’ve got two new voices joining us on the Clear Admit MBA Admissions Podcast, Gareth Howells and David Simpson of London Business School. Howells is executive director for the MBA and Master in Finance (MiF) programs at LBS, and Simpson heads up admissions for both. Not only that,... Read more »
Podcast Episode 17: Q&A with Tuck Admissions Director Luke Anthony Peña, Part II
We are thrilled to bring you Part II of our wide-ranging interview with Luke Anthony Peña, executive director of admissions and financial aid, on the admissions process at Dartmouth’s Tuck School of Business. In Episode 16, Peña shared about his transition to Tuck from Stanford Graduate School of Business (GSB). He... Read more »
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