MBA Wire Taps 488: Darden vs Foster. Johnson vs Tepper. Stern vs Fuqua

About this episode

The episode discusses the current state of the MBA admissions season and highlights upcoming events and alumni insights.

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, CMU / Tepper, Johns Hopkins / Carey, Dartmouth / Tuck, Indiana / Kelley, IESE, Michigan / Ross, Notre Dame / Mendoza, Georgia / Terry and Imperial Business School are releasing final decisions. MBA programs are also continuing to their next admissions rounds, including Ohio State / Fisher, Imperial Business School, BYU / Marriot, Georgia Tech / Scheller and UCI / Merage. Graham highlighted upcoming Clear Admit events. On May 11, Clear Admit is hosting our in-person admissions event in Atlanta. Most top MBA programs are scheduled to attend. We are also hosting several Application overview events in May, on May 19 and 20, and May 26 and 27. Signups for these events are here: https://www.clearadmit.com/events We are also hosting our monthly Livestream on YouTube on Tuesday, this week at 12 pm ET. Subscribe here to be notified as soon as we jump online: https://www.youtube.com/@ClearAdmitMBA Graham continued with the Real Humans Alumni series. This week focuses on three alumni from Tepper…

People in this episode

Host: Graham

Topics covered

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

Keywords

• MBA admissions
• Darden
• Tepper
• Stern
• Clear Admit events
• alumni series
• DecisionWire

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: Darden, Foster, Johnson, Tepper, Stern, Fuqua, CMU / Tepper, Johns Hopkins / Carey, Dartmouth / Tuck, Indiana / Kelley

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