MBA Wire Taps 489: McDonough vs Said. Sloan vs Wharton. Fuqua vs Marshall

MBA Wire Taps 489: McDonough vs Said. Sloan vs Wharton. Fuqua vs Marshall

May 4, 2026 · 33 min

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The episode discusses the current state of the MBA admissions season and features candidate profile reviews 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, UVA / Darden, Berkeley / Haas, Texas / McCombs, Cornell / Johnson, INSEAD, Duke / Fuqua, Vanderbilt / Owen and Michigan State / Broad are releasing final decisions. A few MBA programs are also continuing to their next admissions rounds, including CMU / Tepper and IESE. 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 Graham continued with the Real Humans Alumni series. This week focuses on three alumni from Fuqua / National Grid Ventures, Haas / Adobe and Johnson / Bain. Graham also highlighted a recently published Fridays from the Frontlines article written by a student from LBS regarding their Global Experience in China. For this week, for the candidate profile review portion of the show, Alex…

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