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Published: July 15, 2025
Podcast: Tips on Test Scores, GPAs, Work Experience & Extras
Welcome to a special episode of the Clear Admit MBA Admissions Podcast, recorded live at the Clear Admit MBA Fair at MIT Sloan School of Management in May 2025. In this panel session, “Admissions Tips: What You’ve Done – Tests, Work & Activities,” we dove into four core components of the MBA application: standardized tests, undergraduate grades, professional experience, and extracurricular involvement. Panelists from Columbia, Cornell Johnson, Dartmouth Tuck, Georgia Tech  Our expert panel includes Kate Murphy from Columbia Business School, Joe Korevec from Read more
Published: July 13, 2025
MBA Wire Taps 435—705 GMAT, private equity. Architect in London. Enlisted military, 332 GRE.
Weekly Roundup for Clear Admit’s MBA Podcast In this week’s MBA Admissions podcast we began by discussing some of the recent activity on LiveWire; we followed this by highlighting a new article published by Clear Admit that summarizes the current situation for international students seeking visas to study in the United States. Graham noted Clear Admit’s summer series of webinars, which focuses on top MBA programs’ admissions essays, which will be attended by more than 20 of the top MBA programs. The second event is on Wednesday of this week, and includes Georgetown / McDonough, Michigan / Ross, UNC Read more
Published: July 8, 2025
Podcast: MBA Decoded–Who Goes, What You Learn, and Why It’s Worth It
We are thrilled to be able to share audio from the 2025 Clear Admit MBA Fair. In this panel, admissions deans from Emory Goizueta, MIT Sloan, UCLA Anderson and Yale School of Management help decode the MBA experience by explaining who goes, what the core curriculum consists of, how schools deploy different teaching methods, and much more: Do you need a business background to be competitive? What will you study—and how will you learn it? From core curriculum and teaching methods to timing your application Read more
Published: July 6, 2025
MBA Wire Taps 433—Entrepreneur to Investment Banking. Waive the test or submit 312 GRE. Engineer, passion for dance.
Weekly Roundup for Clear Admit’s MBA Podcast In this week’s MBA Admissions podcast we began by discussing some of the recent activity on LiveWire, which did include more waitlist movement last week. There is still some considerable uncertainty with respect to enrollments of international students who are waiting for their visa interviews. Graham highlighted Clear Admit’s summer series of webinars, which focuses on top MBA programs’ admissions essays, which will be attended by more than 20 of the top MBA programs. The first event is on Wednesday of this week, and includes Berkeley / Haas, Cornell / Johnson, Dartmouth / Read more
Published: June 29, 2025
MBA Wire Taps 432—329 GRE, Biotech sector. 3.86 GPA, Hospital administration. 685 GMAT, AI and robotics.
Weekly Roundup for Clear Admit’s MBA Podcast In this week’s MBA Admissions podcast we began by discussing some of the recent activity on LiveWire, which is now becoming quieter as we move into the summer season. We then continued our discussion on the recent U.S. Government decisions as they pertain to international MBA students; Harvard appears to have won a recent decision in their fight with the U.S. Government in terms of being able to enroll international students. Graham highlighted Clear Admit’s summer series of webinars, which focuses on top MBA programs’ admissions essays, which will be attended by more Read more
Published: June 22, 2025
MBA Wire Taps 431—Japanese in the US. 326 GRE, consider retake? LBS vs INSEAD.
Weekly Roundup for Clear Admit’s MBA Podcast In this week’s MBA Admissions podcast we began by discussing some of the recent activity on LiveWire, which includes a little movement on wait lists. We then continued our discussion on the recent U.S. Government decisions as they pertain to international MBA students; visa interviews are now available again. No doubt this whole situation is causing great anxiety. Graham highlighted Clear Admit’s new summer series of webinars, which focuses on top MBA programs’ admissions essays, which will be attended by more than 20 of the top MBA programs. Signups are here: https://bit.ly/mbaessay0725 Read more
Published: June 15, 2025
MBA Wire Taps 430—337 GRE, 2.96 GPA. 327 GRE, 3.8 GPA. Booth vs Darden.
Weekly Roundup for Clear Admit’s MBA Podcast In this week’s MBA Admissions podcast we began by discussing some of the recent activity on LiveWire, which includes some movements on wait lists. We then continued our discussion on the recent U.S. Government decisions as they pertain to international MBA students, and the consequences for U.S. citizens who remain on the summer waitlists. Graham then noted a deep dive article, published last week by Clear Admit, that summarizes the sequence of events that has led to where we are with international students seeking an MBA in the United States. Graham highlighted Read more
Published: June 8, 2025
MBA Wire Taps 429—Part-time vs Full-time. Reapplying, from India. Judge vs LBS.
Weekly Roundup for Clear Admit’s MBA Podcast In this week’s MBA Admissions podcast we began by discussing the recent U.S. Government decisions as they pertain to international MBA students, and specifically those who are applying and are admitted to Harvard’s MBA program. Graham then discussed the recent Paris-based MBA admissions event he helped moderate, which brought 10 of the best U.S.-based MBA programs to Paris. Graham noted three articles that have been recently published on Clear Admit. The first focuses on a program CMU / Tepper offers that places Tepper MBA students with non-profit boards in the Pittsburgh area. Read more
Published: June 1, 2025
MBA Wire Taps 428—From China, 675 GMAT. From Africa, 333 GRE. Columbia vs Yale.
Weekly Roundup for Clear Admit’s MBA Podcast In this week’s MBA Admissions podcast we began by discussing the recent events and activities in the news; specifically, we discussed the recent U.S. administration’s decisions around visa interviews for international MBA students. These are, frankly, very disturbing times, which can seriously harm the MBA experience at for all candidates at top MBA programs in the United States. We are hoping that good sense will prevail, in the near future. Graham highlighted an admissions event he is helping to moderate in Paris this upcoming week, which includes ten of the top MBA Read more
Published: May 25, 2025
MBA Wire Taps 427—Entertainment goal, 695 GMAT. Consultant, no GMAT yet. Kellogg vs HBS.
Weekly Roundup for Clear Admit’s MBA Podcast In this week’s MBA Admissions podcast we began by discussing the recent events and activities that Clear Admit has been involved in, including our MBA Fair in Boston, and virtual admissions events that wrapped up last week. More than 600 attendees participated in our most recent virtual event, which included admissions representatives from UPenn / Wharton, Stanford, Texas / McCombs, Columbia and Yale SOM. Graham noted two articles that have been recently published on Clear Admit. The first focuses on the different teaching methods that are used in top MBA programs. The Read more
Published: May 18, 2025
MBA Wire Taps 426—Investment banker, 325 GRE. Argentinian Strategist. Booth vs Ross.
Weekly Roundup for Clear Admit’s MBA Podcast In this week’s MBA Admissions podcast we began by discussing the Round 3 activity on LiveWire; interview invites and final decisions continue to roll out for this shortened application round; next week Chicago / Booth and Imperial Business School are scheduled to release final decisions. Graham noted the Clear Admit promotion, where for every new entry we receive on DecisionWire, that maps out a candidate’s entire application journey, Clear Admit will donate $10 to the Forte Foundation. Graham highlighted the remainder of Application Overview events series that will be hosted this week on Read more
Published: May 15, 2025
Making the Most of Your MBA: Career Paths, Pivots, and Possibilities
Sponsored Content This special episode of the Clear Admit MBA Admissions Podcast is all about making the most of your MBA—the careers it unlocks, the pivots it enables, and the lifelong impact it can have on your professional journey. Christine Murray, Associate Dean and Managing Director of Career Services, Georgetown McDonough To unpack this important topic, host Graham Richmond is joined by an expert in the field: Christine Murray, Associate Dean for Career Services at Georgetown University’s McDonough School of Business. Christy brings over two decades of experience in corporate Read more
Published: May 11, 2025
MBA Wire Taps 424—First Gen, Civil Engineer. 337 GRE, 2.99 GPA. Johnson vs Darden.
Weekly Roundup for Clear Admit’s MBA Podcast In this week’s MBA Admissions podcast we began by discussing the Round 3 activity on LiveWire; interview invites and final decisions continue to roll out for this shortened application round; next week UPenn / Wharton, Northwestern / Kellogg, IESE, MIT / Sloan, Yale SOM, Minnesota / Carlson, Columbia, Washington / Foster, UCLA / Anderson and Washington / Olin are scheduled to release final decisions. Graham noted a new Clear Admit promotion, where for every new entry we receive on DecisionWire, that maps out a candidate’s entire application journey, Clear Admit will donate Read more
Published: May 4, 2025
MBA Wire Taps 423—695 GMAT, in Australia. Targeting 330 GRE, in India. Booth vs Haas.
Weekly Roundup for Clear Admit’s MBA Podcast In this week’s MBA Admissions podcast we began by discussing the Round 3 activity on LiveWire; interview invites and final decisions continue to roll out for this shortened application cycle; next week Emory / Goizueta, Berkeley / Haas and Duke / Fuqua are scheduled to release final decisions. Graham noted a new Clear Admit survey, where we are trying to understand the issues and concerns that international students may have, with regards to coming to the United States for an MBA. The survey link is here: https://bit.ly/mba25usa Graham highlighted Clear Admit’s Application Read more
Published: April 27, 2025
MBA Wire Taps 422— Peruvian female, 675 GMAT. 330 GRE, from Central Asia. Tepper vs Wait.
Weekly Roundup for Clear Admit’s MBA Podcast In this week’s MBA Admissions podcast we began by discussing the Round 3 activity on LiveWire; interview invites continue to roll out for this shortened application round; next week several schools are scheduled to release final decisions. Graham noted Clear Admit’s Application Overview May series of events. These online events will be hosted on May 6 and 7, and May 20 and 21. Signups are here: https://bit.ly/appoverview25 Already, we have hundreds of signups for each event! Sandwiched in the middle of this series is Clear Admit’s MBA Fair in Boston, on May Read more
Published: April 24, 2025
The SMU Cox MBA: Careers, Connections, and the Power of the Texas Economy
Sponsored Content This special episode of the Clear Admit MBA Admissions Podcast is about an innovative business school making waves in Texas – the SMU Cox School of Business. As corporations flock to the Lone Star State and big markets like Dallas experience serious growth, SMU has been on the frontlines capitalizing on these opportunities. To dig deeper into careers, connections and the power of the Texas economy, we welcome Shelly Heinrich, the Senior Assistant Dean of Career Management and Graduate Admissions at SMU Cox. Shelly Heinrich, Senior Assistant Dean of Career Management and Graduate Admissions, SMU Read more
Published: April 20, 2025
MBA Wire Taps 420—Potential degree collector. Darden vs wait. INSEAD vs Stern’s Tech MBA.
Weekly Roundup for Clear Admit’s MBA Podcast In this week’s MBA Admissions podcast we began by discussing the Round 3 activity on LiveWire; interview invites are now starting to roll out for this shortened application round. Next week Harvard and UPenn / Wharton have deadlines for their deferred admissions programs. Graham noted Clear Admit’s Application Overview May series of events. These online events will be hosted on May 6 and 7, and May 20 and 21. Signups are here: https://bit.ly/appoverview25 Sandwiched in the middle of these events is Clear Admit’s MBA admissions fair in Boston, on May 14th. This Read more
Published: April 13, 2025
MBA Wire Taps 419— Non-traditional, 16 years of experience. Haas vs Kellogg’s MBAi. Darden vs Stern.
Weekly Roundup for Clear Admit’s MBA Podcast In this week’s MBA Admissions podcast we began by discussing the Round 3 activity on LiveWire; interview invites are now starting to roll out for this shortened application round. Graham then announced the recent partnership Clear Admit has now established with Leland, which will now become our partner for MBA admissions coaching, test prep, and career counseling. Graham noted Clear Admit’s Application Overview May series of events. These online events will be hosted on May 6 and 7, and May 20 and 21. Signups are here: https://bit.ly/appoverview25 Sandwiched in the middle Read more
Published: April 6, 2025
MBA Wire Taps 418—710 GMAT, Brazilian banker. Booth vs Kellogg. Ross vs Kelley.
Weekly Roundup for Clear Admit’s MBA Podcast In this week’s MBA Admissions podcast we began by discussing the Round 2 activity on LiveWire; Stanford, UPenn / Wharton and MIT / Sloan were among the top MBA programs releasing decisions last week. For this upcoming week, Round 3 admissions deadlines are rolling on, while Oxford / Said and Ohio State / Fisher have decision deadlines. Graham noted Clear Admit’s Application Overview May series of events. These online events will be hosted on May 6 and 7, and May 20 and 21. Signups are here: https://bit.ly/appoverview25 Sandwiched in the middle of Read more
Published: March 30, 2025
MBA Wire Taps 417—3.1 GPA, health issues. Electrical engineer, Product manager. Tuck vs Fuqua.
Weekly Roundup for Clear Admit’s MBA Podcast In this week’s MBA Admissions podcast we began by discussing the Round 2 activity on LiveWire; Harvard, Northwestern / Kellogg, Chicago / Booth, Berkeley / Haas, Washington / Foster, UCLA / Anderson, Texas / McCombs and London Business School were among the top MBA programs releasing decisions last week. For this upcoming week, Stanford, UPenn / Wharton, MIT / Sloan and Cornell / Johnson are scheduled to release their final decisions. Graham highlighted the Spring Survey that Clear Admit conducts each season. These surveys are important to understand the decisions of each applicant-cohort. Read more
Published: March 23, 2025
MBA Wire Taps 416—Tuck vs Fuqua and Darden. Judge vs Booth’s EMBA program. Johnson vs Tuck and Ross.
Weekly Roundup for Clear Admit’s MBA Podcast In this week’s MBA Admissions podcast we began by discussing the Round 2 activity on LiveWire; UNC / Kenan Flagler, Yale SOM and Georgetown / McDonough were among the top MBA programs scheduled to release Round 2 decisions last week. For this upcoming week, IESE, Harvard Business School, Northwestern / Kellogg, Columbia, Chicago / Booth, Berkeley / Haas, UCLA / Anderson, Texas / McCombs, Washington / Foster, Boston College / Carroll, Michigan State / Broad, Imperial College and London Business School are releasing their final decisions. Graham highlighted the Spring Survey that Clear Read more
Published: March 16, 2025
MBA Wire Taps 415—Military, GRE 331. Arizona Carey vs Marshall. Haas vs Kellogg
Weekly Roundup for Clear Admit’s MBA Podcast In this week’s MBA Admissions podcast we began by discussing the Round 2 activity on LiveWire; Dartmouth / Tuck, Emory / Goizueta, UVA / Darden, Michigan / Ross, Rice / Jones, Indiana / Kelley and Vanderbilt / Owen were among the top MBA programs releasing Round 2 decisions last week. For this upcoming week, UNC / Kenan Flagler, Yale SOM, Georgetown / McDonough and INSEAD are releasing their final decisions. Graham highlighted the Spring Applicant Survey that Clear Admit conducts each season. These surveys are important to understand the decisions of each applicant Read more
Published: March 9, 2025
MBA Wire Taps 414—20 years of service, Deferred admissions. Fuqua vs Kelley.
Weekly Roundup for Clear Admit’s MBA Podcast In this week’s MBA Admissions podcast we began by discussing Round 2 activity on LiveWire; CMU / Tepper was among the top MBA programs releasing Round 2 decisions last week. For this upcoming week, Rice / Jones, UVA / Darden, Emory / Goizueta, Dartmouth / Tuck, Duke / Fuqua, Michigan / Ross, Vanderbilt / Owen, Notre Dame / Mendoza, Georgia / Terry and Indiana / Kelley are releasing their Round 2 decisions. Minnesota / Carlson is releasing their Round 3 decisions. Graham noted that Clear Admit now has several admissions-related events for the Read more
Published: March 3, 2025
Managing an MBA & Major League Baseball: Sam Fuld on Wharton, Leadership & the Phillies
From the outfield to the office, Sam Fuld has built a career in “America’s favorite pastime” — baseball. Sam Fuld, General Manager, Philadelphia Phillies After earning the title of All-American twice at Stanford University, Fuld was drafted by the Chicago Cubs in 2004 and made his major league debut in 2007. He enjoyed an eight-season Major League Baseball (MLB) career with teams including the Chicago Cubs, Tampa Bay Rays, Minnesota Twins, and Oakland Athletics. Then, the Philadelphia Phillies hired Fuld in 2017 as the Major League Player Information Coordinator, a position he held for two years before being promoted to Read more
Published: March 2, 2025
MBA Wire Taps 412—315 GRE, ex-military. Over-represented, interview invites. Kellogg vs Wharton
Weekly Roundup for Clear Admit’s MBA Podcast In this week’s MBA Admissions podcast we began by discussing Round 2 activity on LiveWire; a few MBA programs are still releasing a few interview invites, but we are getting closer to the end of the Round 2 cycle; CMU / Tepper, Johns Hopkins / Carey and Ohio State / Fisher are scheduled to release final decisions for R2 candidates this upcoming week. Graham highlighted the MBA Fair Clear Admit is hosting in Boston, on May 14th. Twenty-four of the top 25 U.S.-based MBA programs are planning to attend. Signups are here: Read more

MBA Applywire

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July 19, 2025 1:13pm ET
Applying: Berkeley / Haas, Dartmouth / Tuck, Harvard Business School, MIT Sloan, Northwestern / Kellogg, Stanford GSB, U. Chicago Booth, UPenn / Wharton
Intake Year: 2026
Pre-MBA Career: Consulting
Post-MBA Target Industry: Undecided
GRE: 332
GPA: 3.69
Years of Work Experience: 4
Location: USA
Notes:

T10 undergrad - econ major
T2 consulting for 4 years (promoted twice)
Hispanic, immigrated from South America at young age and went to public school in America
GRE was 167V165Q

EC: former leader of mock trial team, created fitness club in local office, office volunteering and recruiting
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July 17, 2025 6:13am ET
Applying: Harvard Business School, Stanford GSB, UPenn / Wharton
Intake Year: 2026
Pre-MBA Career: Technology Consultant
Post-MBA Target Industry: Consulting, Technology Companies: Bain , BCG , McKinsey , Apple , Google
GMAT: 655
GPA: 3.67
Years of Work Experience: 5
Location: Canada
Post MBA Location: US
Notes:

Originally from India, moved to Canada for pursuing higher education. In terms of work experience, I have been working with a reputed tech consulting company for 4+ years and have got promoted twice within this period. High visibility projects, multi-million in revenue.

In terms of extra-curriculars, volunteering with the recruitment wing of the company to sponsor case competitions, hackathons etc. in undergraduate had multiple roles like peer mentor, academic integrity ambassador, VP of coding club and couple more.

Post-MBA would like to join a big tech company or startup company as a Product Manager.
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July 16, 2025 9:06am ET
Applying: Berkeley / Haas, Carnegie Mellon / Tepper, Duke / Fuqua, Emory / Goizueta, Georgia / Terry, Georgia Tech / Scheller, Indiana / Kelley, Michigan / Ross, Northwestern / Kellogg, NYU Stern, UNC Kenan-Flagler, USC / Marshall, UT Austin / McCombs, Vanderbilt / Owen, Washington U. / Olin
Intake Year: 2026
Pre-MBA Career: Customer Success Manager
Post-MBA Target Industry: Technology Companies: Google , Microsoft
GRE: 310
GPA: 4.06
Years of Work Experience: 6
Location: Lagos, Nigeria
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July 16, 2025 1:11am ET
Applying: Carnegie Mellon / Tepper, Cornell / Johnson, Dartmouth / Tuck, Duke / Fuqua, Georgia Tech / Scheller, Imperial, Michigan / Ross, NYU Stern, Oxford / Saïd, Toronto / Rotman, U. Washington / Foster, UCLA Anderson, USC / Marshall, UT Austin / McCombs, UVA / Darden
Intake Year: 2027
Pre-MBA Career: Data Scientist
Post-MBA Target Industry: Entrepreneurship, Technology Companies: Amazon , Apple , Facebook , Google , Hewlett Packard , IBM , Lenova , LinkedIn , Microsoft , Oracle , Tesla , Twitter , Uber
GRE: 319
GPA: 7.55
Years of Work Experience: 4
Location: India
Post MBA Location: USA/Canada/UK
Notes:

2 YoE at a famous automobile company.
2 YoE at matriculation (1 YoE at time of application) at a data science US-based consulting startup with 3k+ employees working in AI

Innovation award at automobile company as well as millions in projected savings in 2 separate projects
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July 12, 2025 9:28am ET
Applying: Carnegie Mellon / Tepper, Columbia, Cornell / Johnson, Dartmouth / Tuck, Duke / Fuqua, Emory / Goizueta, Indian School of Business, Indiana / Kelley, Michigan / Ross, UCLA Anderson, UNC Kenan-Flagler, UVA / Darden
Intake Year: 2026
Pre-MBA Career: Technology
Post-MBA Target Industry: Consulting, Technology Companies: Accenture , Bain , Booz Allen Hamilton , BCG , Deloitte , McKinsey , PWC , Amazon , Apple , Facebook , Google , Microsoft
GMAT: 720
GPA: 3.2
Years of Work Experience: 3
Location: India
Post MBA Location: USA
Notes:

I'm a technology partnership strategist with a background in Mechanical Engineering and a deep-rooted passion for leveraging AI for social impact. At Quantiphi, I have led high-impact initiatives with Google Cloud, including strategic partnership agreements, global differentiation programs, and M&A efforts in Latin America. My short-term goal is to pivot into technology change management consulting to deepen my expertise in driving sustainable digital transformation. Long term, I aim to launch AI-powered farming cooperatives for India's agricultural sector to improve income stability for smallholder farmers, combining my technical acumen, consulting experience, and entrepreneurial ambition to create a scalable impact.
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July 17, 2025 11:01am ET
Accepted to Columbia
Round: Round 1
Received via email on July 14, 2025
Standardized Test: Executive Assessment (EA)
GPA: 3.3
EA: 152
Program Type: January Intake
Target Career: Finance
Application Location: Brazil, Sao Paulo
Note:

Applied 5/23
Invite for interview 7/2
Interview 7/9
Offer 7/15

Super excited!
July 16, 2025 5:56pm ET
Rejected from Waitlist at Berkeley / Haas
Round: Round 2
Received via email July 16, 2025
Standardized Test: GRE
GRE: 309
Program Type: Traditional Two-Year
Target Career: Healthcare
Application Location: San Francisco, CA
Note:

Knew my GRE score was going to limit my chances into Haas. Received a full-ride elsewhere with a GRE waiver (I have a MS in a quant field). Either way, congrats to all going to Haas!
July 16, 2025 2:40pm ET
Rejected from Waitlist at Stanford GSB
Round: Round 2
Received via email July 16, 2025
Standardized Test: GMAT
GMAT: 720
Program Type: Traditional Two-Year
Note:

For all peers waiting on the WL so long. Good luck to you all.
July 15, 2025 9:53pm ET
Accepted to Columbia
Round: Round 1
Received via portal July 15, 2025
Standardized Test: Executive Assessment (EA)
EA: 164
Program Type: January Intake
July 15, 2025 9:50pm ET
Accepted to Columbia
Round: Round 1
Received via portal July 15, 2025
Standardized Test: GRE
GPA: 3.8
GRE: 322
Program Type: January Intake
Application Location: UK
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