MBA Wire Taps 481: Deferred applicant, 310 GRE. Stern (Abu Dhabi) vs IMD. Kenan Flagler vs Tepper

About this episode

The episode discusses the current state of the MBA admissions season, upcoming decisions, and features an MBA admissions tip and alumni profiles.

In this week's MBA Admissions podcast we began by discussing the current state of the MBA admissions season. We are now seeing more MBA programs releasing their final decisions for Round 2. This upcoming week, Rice / Jones, Harvard, Northwestern / Kellogg, Boston College / Carroll, Chicago / Booth, Berkeley / Haas, Texas / McCombs, UCLA / Anderson, Cornell / Johnson and Washington / Foster are releasing decisions. MBA programs are also beginning their next admissions rounds, including Michigan / Ross, London Business School, Washington / Foster, Dartmouth / Tuck, Columbia and Michigan State / Broad. Graham highlighted Clear Admit’s upcoming livestream “Decision Day Watch Party” scheduled for Wednesday, you can subscribe to Clear Admit’s YouTube channel here: https://www.youtube.com/@ClearAdmitMBA On May 11, Clear Admit is hosting our in-person admissions event in Atlanta. We are also hosting several Application overview events in May. Signups for these events are here: https://www.clearadmit.com/events Graham then highlighted an MBA admissions tip that focuses on the impact of scholarships for MBA candidates, as they make their final decisions on where they will attend. Finally…

People in this episode

Host: Graham

Topics covered

• MBA admissions
• application decisions
• scholarships
• alumni profiles
• upcoming events

Keywords

• MBA admissions
• Round 2 decisions
• scholarships
• Clear Admit events
• alumni profiles

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: Rice / Jones, Harvard, Northwestern / Kellogg, Boston College / Carroll, Chicago / Booth, Berkeley / Haas, Texas / McCombs, UCLA / Anderson, Cornell / Johnson, Washington / Foster

Places: Atlanta, Abu Dhabi, IMD, Kenan Flagler, Tepper

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