MBA Wire Taps 493: Indian engineer, 725 GMAT. Full-time vs Part-time. Stern vs Sloan

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The episode discusses the current state of the MBA admissions season, highlighting key programs and candidate profiles.

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, Stanford, Ohio State / Fisher and SMU / Cox are releasing final decisions. A few MBA programs are also continuing to their next admissions rounds, including Rice / Jones. Graham noted that Clear Admit is continuing its MBA application overview events this week with the final two events, on May 26 and 27. Again, the majority of the leading MBA programs participate in these valuable events, including UPenn / Wharton, Columbia, Virginia / Darden, LBS, INSEAD, and Michigan / Ross this week. Signups are here: https://www.clearadmit.com/events Graham highlighted a Fridays from the Frontline feature from a student at Duke / Fuqua, and a recently published article on a $50 million gift to John’s Hopkins / Carey Business School. He also commented on some changes to the curriculum at IESE, where AI has been embedded across all disciplines. Graham continued with the Real Humans Alumni series. This week focuses on three alumni: HBS / Microsoft, Wharton / OpenAI and Yale / Twitch. For this week…

People in this episode

Host: Graham

Topics covered

• MBA admissions
• candidate profiles
• GMAT scores
• full-time vs part-time MBA
• alumni insights
• program updates

Keywords

• MBA admissions
• GMAT
• full-time MBA
• part-time MBA
• alumni
• application overview
• program updates

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: Stanford, Ohio State / Fisher, SMU / Cox, Rice / Jones, UPenn / Wharton, Columbia, Virginia / Darden, LBS, INSEAD, Michigan / Ross

Places: India

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