MBA Wire Taps 483: Darden for West Coast? Johnson vs Scheller. Fuqua vs IESE

About this episode

The episode discusses the current state of the MBA admissions season and highlights upcoming events and tips for candidates.

In this week's MBA Admissions podcast we began by discussing the current state of the MBA admissions season. We are continuing to see MBA programs release their final decisions. This upcoming week, UPenn / Wharton, London Business School, Stanford, MIT / Sloan, UVA / Darden and Vanderbilt / Owen are releasing their Round 2 decisions. MBA programs are also continuing to their next admissions rounds, including Cambridge / Judge, Berkeley / Haas, UPenn / Wharton, Northwestern / Kellogg, Georgetown / McDonough, Texas / McCombs, UVA / Darden, Vanderbilt / Owen, Minnesota / Carlson, Arizona / Carey, Chicago / Booth and Rice / Jones. Graham highlighted the Spring MBA applicant survey that Clear Admit is conducting. You can access the survey here: https://bit.ly/surveymba26 Graham then noted upcoming Clear Admit events. On May 11, Clear Admit is hosting our in-person admissions event in Atlanta. We are also hosting several Application overview events on May 19 and 20, and May 26 and 27. Signups for these events are here: https://www.clearadmit.com/events Graham then highlighted an MBA admissions tip that focuses on choosing between several MBA program offers. Finally, Graham continued…

People in this episode

Host: Graham

Topics covered

• MBA admissions
• program decisions
• candidate profiles
• alumni insights
• application events

Keywords

• MBA admissions
• Darden
• Wharton
• Kellogg
• alumni
• application events
• decision wire

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: UPenn / Wharton, London Business School, Stanford, MIT / Sloan, UVA / Darden, Vanderbilt / Owen, Cambridge / Judge, Berkeley / Haas, Northwestern / Kellogg, Georgetown / McDonough

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