Admissions Director Q&A
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Admissions Director Q&A: Tino Elgner of IE Business School
IE Business School is centrally located in Madrid’s financial district. Their international appeal and urban environment fosters strong student, faculty and alumni communities. In addition to the school’s one-year, full-time International MBA, IE offers tech, part-time and executive MBA options. In this edition of Admissions Director Q&A, we hear more... Read more »
Admissions Director Q&A: Kelly Wilson of Carnegie Mellon University Tepper School of Business
We continue our Admissions Director Q&A series with the newly STEM-designated Carnegie Mellon University’s Tepper School of Business. Hear all about their MBA admissions, the exciting campus scene, life in Pittsburgh and lots more from Kelly R. Wilson, Executive Director of Masters Admissions, below. Clear Admit: Can you tell us... Read more »
Admissions Director Q&A: Berkeley Haas’s Morgan Bernstein
In this edition of our ongoing series, Admissions Director Q&A, we stop by the Bay Area of California. Morgan Bernstein is the executive director of full-time MBA admissions at Berkeley’s Haas School of Business, and a 2009 alumna of the program. Bernstein is deeply passionate about helping prospective students navigate... Read more »
Admissions Director Q&A: UCI Merage’s Taylor Martini
For this edition of our Admissions Director Q&A series, we hear from Taylor Martini, who serves as the Executive Director of UCI Merage School of Business’s Full-Time MBA Program. He oversees total operations of the Full-Time MBA Program, including financial and strategic management, academic programming and supervision of the admissions... Read more »
Admissions Director Q&A: Sue Oldham of Vanderbilt Owen
You may have already seen the Real Humans of Vanderbilt Owen’s MBA Class of 2021, and now we are back to hear directly from the admissions office. In this edition of our Admissions Director Q&A, we head back to Nashville for an interview with Associate Dean Sue Oldham. Working closely... Read more »
Admissions Director Q&A: Dibyendu Bose of the Indian School of Business
For this edition of our Admissions Director Q&A series, we hear from the Indian School of Business (ISB). An ISB alumnus and MIT Sloan Fellow, Dibyendu Bose is currently the Director of Admissions & Financial Aid (AFA) at ISB. He also heads the Office of Alumni Engagement and works closely... Read more »
Admissions Director Q&A: Rebekah Lewin of the University of Rochester Simon Business School
We are back for another edition of our Admissions Director Q&A series. This time, we stop in New York’s third largest metropolitan area of Rochester. There, Rebekah Lewin is assistant dean of admissions and financial aid for the full-time MBA and MS programs at the University of Rochester, Simon Business... Read more »
Admissions Director Q&A: Melissa Rapp of the Emory Goizueta Business School
We continue our Admissions Director Q&A series with a stop in the Southern U.S.—Atlanta, Georgia, more specifically. Melissa Rapp is the Associate Dean of MBA Admissions at Emory University’s Goizueta Business School there. In this role, she leads the team responsible for the recruitment, evaluation, and matriculation of students across Goizueta’s... Read more »
Admissions Director Q&A: Janice Kennedy of Rice University’s Jones Graduate School of Business
We continue our ongoing Admissions Director Q&A series with the Executive Director of Recruiting and Admissions, Janice Kennedy, of Rice University’s Jones Graduate School of Business. Kennedy joined the school this year on the heels of a long career in commercial leadership roles within pharmaceutical, consumer packaged goods, and consulting.... Read more »
Admissions Director Q&A: IESE’s Pascal Michels
This installment of our ongoing series, Admissions Director Q&A, takes us to the beautiful city of Barcelona, Spain, and the business school, IESE. An IESE full-time MBA graduate of 2010, Pascal Michels joined IESE as an associate director on the career services team in 2013 and took over the role... Read more »
Clear Admit Admissions Director Q&A: Judi Byers of Cornell University’s S.C. Johnson Graduate School of Management
We continue with our updates to Admissions Director Q&As with a trip to Ithaca, NY. Judi Byers is the Executive Director of Admissions & Financial Aid for the residential MBA programs at Cornell University’s Samuel Curtis Johnson Graduate School of Management. She leads a team of 14 admissions professionals and... Read more »
Admissions Director Q&A: Luke Anthony Peña of Dartmouth Tuck School of Business
Since 2017, Dartmouth Tuck‘s Executive Director of Admissions and Financial Aid, Luke Anthony Peña, has developed and implemented strategies for recruiting, selecting, and enrolling MBA candidates who possess the greatest potential to become tomorrow’s wise leaders and contribute to and thrive in Tuck’s distinctly immersive learning community. Peña previously served... Read more »
Admissions Director Q&A: Dawna Levenson of the MIT Sloan School of Management
We are moving right along in our Admissions Director Q&A series with a trip to Cambridge, Massachusetts. Dawna Levenson is an Assistant Dean of Admissions at the MIT Sloan School of Management there. Dawna Levenson, Assistant Dean of Admissions, MIT Sloan School of Management As the co-lead of the team,... Read more »
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... Read more »
Admissions Director Q&A: Bruce DelMonico of the Yale School of Management
We continue our Admissions Director Q&A series with the Assistant Dean for Admissions at the Yale School of Management, Bruce DelMonico. He has been at the school for close to 15 years, and has been running the Admissions Office for roughly 13 of those years. During that time, he has... Read more »
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