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Published: October 2, 2019

Wharton’s MBA Deferred Admission Program Expands Outside UPenn

Promising undergraduate students outside of the University of Pennsylvania will now have a chance to participate in The Wharton School's MBA deferred admissions program. This adds to the Wharton School’s existing Moelis Advance Access Program for UPenn undergraduates and the MBA sub-matriculation program for Wharton undergraduates. The Wharton MBA Advance Access Program allows accepted seniors at any university to secure their spot in a future Wharton full-time MBA class, two to four years down the road. It is a unique deferred pathway for MBA candidates who want to explore their options outside of traditional business and gain experience in a wide range of industries before heading back to school. Read more

Published: September 29, 2019

Admissions Tip: Understanding the MBA Admissions Interview, Part III

In this, our third installment of our interview series, we’ll take a closer look at one of the more recent interview permutations—the group interview or team-based discussion. You can view the first two parts of this interview series here: open interviews versus interview invites and blind interviews versus non-blind interviews. What Is the Team-Based Discussion at Wharton? Several years ago, the admissions office at the University of Pennsylvania’s Wharton School partnered with the Wharton Innovation group to launch a new evaluation method, the team-based discussion (TBD). As its name suggests, as Read more

Published: September 24, 2019

Chicago Booth Lands Top Honors on Forbes Best U.S. Business School Ranking

For the first time in Forbes’ history of ranking U.S. business schools, the University of Chicago’s Booth School of Business took the number one spot. Booth’s meteoric rise followed the same path as Wharton did in the last ranking—both jumped from 7th to 1st in their respective rankings, and Wharton was also new to the leading position. Forbes’ biennial ranking focuses primarily on return on investment for MBA graduates. The organization surveyed more than 100 schools and 17,500 alumni from the Class of 2014 regarding their pre- and post-MBA compensation, career choice, and location. Responses received from 25 percent of those alumni determined schools’ ranks in terms of five-year MBA gain, which Forbes defines as “the net cumulative amount the typical alumni would have earned after five years by getting their M.B.A. versus staying in their pre-M.B.A. career.” They did exclude programs if their response rate was under 15%, or if graduates actually lost money after five years. (In 2017, there were 100 schools in the ranking; this year, there are only 61.) Booth landed top honors with a $94,400 five-year MBA gain, coming in $3,600 above the next highest school, Stanford GSB. While Stanford GSB’s Class of 2014 grads reported the highest total compensation of any other school—$250,000 five years post-MBA—the high cost of living in the Bay Area affected their net gains. Meanwhile, Chicago Booth’s Class of 2014 reported reaching an annual salary of $245,000. Two thirds of the Booth class had entered the lucrative fields of finance or consulting, with McKinsey, Bain, BCG, Accenture and Amazon scooping up most graduates. Read more

Published: September 23, 2019

LiveWire Insights: Round 1 at the M7 MBA Programs

Applicants who are eagerly awaiting news on interview invitations and admissions decisions – and the exact timing of such things – you’re going to want to keep reading. Clear Admit is proud to release our first-ever LiveWire Insights document. This report includes proprietary data from our archive of thousands of LiveWire admissions updates. We have prepared this report as a token of appreciation for the members of the clearadmit.com community. Yes, we’re giving thanks to our community by providing some useful data for those of you who are on the edge of your seats Read more

Published: September 2, 2019

MBA ApplyWire Spotlight: What Do I Need on the GRE?

We are back for another edition of MBA ApplyWire Spotlight, a series that highlights entries from MBA applicants as shared in Clear Admit’s MBA ApplyWire. This week, we highlight an MBA applicant with diverse international experience who sought advice on the GRE. Read on for more detail from a candidate considering Harvard Business School, INSEAD, London Business School, Stanford GSB, and UPenn / Wharton. Clear Admit’s resident expert, Alex Brown, opened the conversation: Read more

Published: August 21, 2019

Inside the Wharton MBA Class of 2021 Profile

The Wharton School just released the profile of their MBA Class of 2021. Get to know the upcoming first-year MBA class and see how you compare. Read more

Published: August 20, 2019

MBA News You Need: NYU Stern Expands Test Options for Admission, How Wharton Constructs MBA Clusters, Yale SOM Welcomes Class of 2021, and More from Vanderbilt Owen and Dartmouth Tuck

Each week we collect all the MBA news that’s fit to print and provide a quick overview of the latest updates from top business schools around the world. Here’s your MBA News You Need digest for the week of August 19, 2019. Read more

Published: August 19, 2019

MBA ApplyWire Spotlight: From the Navy to Investment Banking

A common goal among those planning to pursue MBA is changing careers. In this MBA ApplyWire Spotlight, we highlight a recent entry in Clear Admit’s ApplyWire from an MBA applicant hoping to transition from the navy to investment banking. As they plan to apply to Berkeley / Haas, Columbia, Harvard Business School, Stanford GSB, U. Chicago Booth, and UPenn / Wharton, they had some concerns that our community helped to ameliorate. Read on for the details. A community member kicked off the conversation: Read more

Published: August 18, 2019

Admissions Director Q&A: Blair Mannix of Wharton

While you may have recently enjoyed her podcast with Clear Admit or her Real Humans profile, Blair Mannix, the director of admissions at the Wharton School, has plenty more to share about the leading MBA program. While she has been a member of the Wharton MBA Admissions team and admissions committee for seven years, her career in university admissions spans fourteen. She started her career in the undergraduate admissions office at the University of Pennsylvania working with international students, and finished her time with Penn undergraduates as the Associate Director of Evaluation and Selection thinking deeply about the process and ideology of admissions decisions. In 2012, she transitioned from Penn Undergraduate Admissions to join the Wharton School. She held the title of Director of Operations and Evaluations in the Wharton MBA Admissions office for nearly four years, focusing on the daily operations of the admissions committee and the philosophy and training behind evaluation and selection of applicants. In 2018, Mrs. Mannix was named Wharton MBA Director of Admissions. Now she's here to dish on a few exciting developments at Wharton, the lifecycle of an application, Wharton's Semester in San Francisco, and more. Read more

Published: August 5, 2019

MBA ApplyWire Spotlight: Define Your Long-term Goal

As applicants consider what business schools to shortlist, many are posting to Clear Admit’s MBA ApplyWire, an admissions tool for feedback on candidacy, school choice and more. This week, we take a closer look at an MBA hopeful applying to Columbia, NYU Stern, U. Chicago Booth, UPenn / Wharton, and Yale SOM. Read on for the details. Resident admissions expert Alex Brown kicked off the thread: Read more

Published: July 29, 2019

MBA ApplyWire Spotlight: Needing the Numbers and More

As MBA hopefuls consider their chances at the leading business schools, many are posting to Clear Admit’s ApplyWire, an admissions tool for feedback on candidacy, school choice and more. This week, we shine the spotlight on two candidates. The first has some room for improvement with their academic stats while applying to Berkeley / Haas, Columbia, Michigan / Ross, NYU Stern, UCLA Anderson, USC / Marshall, and Yale SOM. Read on for the details. Resident expert, Alex Brown, took the stage, so to speak: Read more

Published: July 15, 2019

MBA ApplyWire Spotlight: A Path of Entrepreneurship

With the 2019-2020 Round 1 and early admissions deadlines on the horizon, many MBA hopefuls are posting to Clear Admit’s ApplyWire, a platform for feedback from our community of top-tier applicants to help inform your final choice of schools and approach to admissions. This week, we take a closer look at an experienced entrepreneur interested in Harvard Business School, MIT Sloan, Stanford GSB, U. Chicago Booth, and UPenn / Wharton: Clear Admit’s resident expert, Alex Brown, kicked off the conversation: Read more

Published: July 9, 2019

MBA News You Need: MBA Essay Advice from Michigan Ross, Marketing Might at Wharton, Summer Reading from Stanford GSB, and More from Washington Foster and CEIBS

Each week, we collect all the MBA news that’s fit to print and provide a quick overview of the latest updates from top business schools around the world. Here’s your MBA News You Need digest for the week of July 8, 2019. Read more

Published: June 24, 2019

Dean Geoff Garrett Says “Farewell” to Wharton for USC Marshall

As you may have heard, the Dean of the Wharton School, Geoff Garrett, is leaving for the USC Marshall School of Business next year. After Penn announced the news, Garrett also reached out to bid farewell to alumni. Penn Announces Garrett’s Departure with High Praise Earlier this month, Penn President Amy Gutmann and Provost Wendell Pritchett released the following statement about Garrett’s departure: “We write to inform you that Dean Geoff Garrett will be leaving Penn at the end of the 2019-20 academic year to become Dean of the USC Marshall School of Business, starting July 1, 2020. Read more

Published: June 19, 2019

Wharton MBA Team Wins National Business Case Competition

Every year, the Executive Leadership Council (ELC) National Business Case Competition challenges students from the top graduate schools in the nation to offer a solution to an oil and gas industry challenge. Sponsored and hosted by Exxon Mobil, the competition offers a $35,000 cash award to the winner and an invitation to The Executive Leadership Council’s Annual Recognition Gala. This year, the challenge focused on attracting and retaining millennial and Generation Z employees. And on April 9, 2019, a Wharton team—Mino Consultants—composed of four first-year MBA students took home first place. When asked about their win, Angie Gonzalez, Kaila Squires, Mallory Smith, and team captain Oluwayimika (Yinka) Taiwo-Peters, said it was due to teamwork and resources from Wharton. Read more

Published: June 10, 2019

MBA ApplyWire Spotlight: School Suggestions

As new MBA applicants reflect on their admissions chances and consider application strategies, many are posting to Clear Admit’s ApplyWire, a platform for feedback from our community of top-tier applicants to help inform your final choice of schools and approach to admissions. This week, we start with a closer look at an international applicant applying to Berkeley / Haas, Harvard Business School, INSEAD, MIT Sloan, Stanford GSB, and UCLA Anderson: Given the applicant’s concern about the GMAT, Clear Admit’s Alex Brown advised on that—but also had a suggestion regarding where to apply: Read more

Published: May 22, 2019

Wharton and WorkingNation Discuss Closing the Data Analytics Gap

What’s the next step for employers and educators who want to move the data analytics field forward? That’s the question that top industry leaders and educators discussed during a Wharton town hall titled, “The Future is Now: Closing the Data Analytics Skills Gap.” Read more

Published: May 8, 2019

Penn Wharton Entrepreneurship Startup Challenge

The 2018-2019 Penn Wharton Entrepreneurship Startup Challenge took place on May 3rd with 27 teams from across Penn to compete for a chance to win $135,000 in cash and prizes. Eliot Ingram, who has more than 21 years of experience in MBA admissions and is the founder of Clear Admit, headed out to Wharton’s Huntsman’s Hall to experience the event first hand. Here’s what his experience was like. Choosing the Finalists The morning was taken up by 27 semi-finalist teams presenting in front of a panel of judges. From there, the teams were narrowed down to eight finalists who would present in the afternoon. When Eliot arrived at 1:30 pm, he was just in time to hear the final pitches. Each team was given about six minutes to present and then had about 12 minutes to answer questions from four judges, all of whom had experience as venture capitalists. Read more

Published: May 7, 2019

MBA News You Need: HBS Latinx Club, CMU Tepper Energy Business MBA Track, Wharton Global Forum, and More

Each week we collect all the MBA news that’s fit to print and provide a quick overview of the latest trending topics from top business schools around the world. Here’s your MBA News You Need digest for the week of May 6, 2019. Meet the HBS Latino Student Organization (LASO) Meet the Latinx Student Organization (LASO) Harvard Business School's Latinx Student Organization (LASO) supports and promotes various initiatives geared toward Latinx students. From MBA admissions to career development and alumni support, LASO’s goal is to empower the Latinx community on campus and beyond by representing a wide range of backgrounds, experiences, heritage, and interests. Read more

Published: May 6, 2019

MBA Admissions Brief: The Wharton School

We are excited to launch a new series, MBA Admissions Brief, in which leading business schools provide guidance for your application and insight into their program. Whether you are already lining up recommenders or just beginning to think about an MBA, the adcoms will be sharing tips and info with you in this new Q&A feature. Maryellen Reilly, Deputy Vice Dean of the Wharton MBA Program To kick things off, we hear from the Wharton School's Maryellen Reilly, the Deputy Vice Dean of the MBA Program, who oversees Wharton MBA Admissions, Financial Aid, Career Management and Student Life. Before coming to Wharton 12 years ago, Maryellen spent over 15 years in finance in both the US and Europe at firms including Capital Group and JP Morgan. Additionally, Maryellen sits on the investment committee of the Girl Scouts of Eastern Pennsylvania, and is a member of the Forum of Executive Women. In her role as Deputy Vice Dean, Maryellen leads the student experience outside the classroom, including Career Management, Admissions & Financial Aid and Student Life in identifying and providing services and support to enhance the student experience from admission to graduation and beyond. Read on for her advice about the Wharton application process, choosing recommenders and what you may have to look forward to at Wharton! What would you say to someone who’s applying next fall and just getting started in the MBA application process now? Start by thinking deeply about what your goals are and what do you hope to gain from an MBA, both professionally and personally. That’s a big part of the decision process: getting to know yourself. Once you know what you want and what you hope to get out of business school, then you can then set your sights on researching programs and finding the place that best fits you. Every school is really excited to show you everything we offer, but it’s important that you really take this opportunity to see if the school you’re thinking of is the place for you. Read more

Published: May 2, 2019

Fridays from the Frontline: Cracking the Code at Wharton

In recent years, technology has risen to become one of the top career choices for MBA grads and with it, so has the desire for more tech skills and an understanding of some of the related building blocks. The tricky part is that the majority of MBA students arrive on campus with limited coding experience. At the Wharton School, students sought to address this issue head-on with a new club: The Coding Club. Current MBA students Kahini Shah WG19 and Anthony Farias-Eisner WG20 put together an op-ed for Wharton Magazine about the new MBA club developed to “bring tech novices and experts together to build software and their skill sets.” The following piece has been republished in its entirety from its original source, Wharton Magazine. Read more

Published: April 30, 2019

Real Humans of MBA Admissions: Blair Mannix of the Wharton School

Blair Mannix, Director of Admissions, The Wharton School Just a few weeks ago, we had the pleasure of getting to know Blair Mannix, the Director of Admissions at the Wharton School. Working in admissions for 13 years and counting, Mannix took on the mantle of Director of Admissions in the fall of 2018. In our Admissions Q&A, she walked us through life in the admissions office, what happens with your written applications and during the Team-based Discussions and more. She also took the time to address some fun Real Humans questions, and we hope that in reading her responses, you get to feel as much like you know her as we did in speaking with her. Read on to learn a bit about Mannix’s personal side and don’t forget to catch up on the podcast if you want to hear more about admissions at the Wharton School. Coffee or Tea? Coffee. I am a coffee fiend. I probably have 4 cups a day, even through the afternoon. Beach or Mountains? I was lucky enough to grow up in the beaches of South Carolina. And one of the other virtues of Philadelphia is that we’re very close to the Jersey Shore, so my husband and I pop down to the Jersey Shore every summer. So I would say beach. But I burn—I’m Irish in nature, so I turn very red and I burn often. So, beach, but only for a couple of hours a day. Read more

Published: April 23, 2019

MBA News You Need: Wharton Unveils New Tangen Hall, Yale Wins MBA Investing Competition, HBS Hosts Entertainment Conference, and More From Judge and Haas.

Each week we collect all the MBA news that’s fit to print and provide a quick overview of the latest trending topics from top business schools around the world. Here’s your MBA News You Need digest for the week of April 22, 2019. Wharton Unveils New Facilities for Student Entrepreneurship The Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania just unveiled plans for Tangen Hall, the first on-campus space dedicated to student entrepreneurship and innovation activities. Tangen Hall is a seven-story, 68,000-sqft hub developed by the Hankin Group, designed by KSS Architects, and funded by a $25 million gift from the AKO Foundation. Tangen will offer incubator spaces, maker spaces, a test kitchen, a new Venture Lab, and an Integrated Product Design Program operated by Wharton, the School of Engineering, and the Stuart Weitzman School of Design. Tangen Hall, aerial perspective looking Northeast “Tangen Hall is one of those dreams come true. The real motivator for this is the amazing entrepreneurial and innovative spirit of our undergraduate and graduate students who are working to do great things in the world,” said President Amy Gutmann. “I want to thank Dean Geoff Garrett and Wharton for taking the lead and driving this project forward, bringing the finest of business, engineering, and design together.” Read the full press release from Wharton here. Yale Wins MBA Impact Investing Competition Two Times Running Team members (from left) John Palfreyman ’20, Vincent Caruso ’20, Emma Broderick ’21, and Leah Yablonka FES ’19 For the second year in a row, a team of Yale SOM students took home first place at the MBA Impact Investing Network & Training (MIINT) competition this month. Starting at Yale five months prior, two MBA students, Susannah Burrage ’19 and Jake Harris ’19, selected five teams from an initial applicant pool of 50. After months of due diligence, research and weekly meetings, the five teams were whittled down to one in a pitch-off. To determine which team would represent Yale at the MIINT competition, judges chose the winners based on which idea had the most potential for strong financial returns and scalable impact. Read more

Published: April 22, 2019

Podcast Episode 36: Admissions Q&A with Wharton’s Blair Mannix

Blair Mannix, Director of Admissions, The Wharton School We are excited to bring you our latest podcast with the Director of Admissions at UPenn / Wharton, Blair Mannix! Mannix has had a healthy admissions career—13 years and counting—beginning with the Office of Undergraduate Admissions at the University of Pennsylvania. After earning her master’s from Penn’s Graduate School of Education and serving Penn undergrads as the Associate Director of Evaluation and Selection, she moved onto the Wharton School in 2012. She has previously served as the Director of Operations and Evaluations in the Wharton MBA Admissions Read more

Published: April 15, 2019

MBA DecisionWire Spotlight: Columbia Business School or Wharton for Tech

In this MBA DecisionWire Spotlight, which highlights MBA candidates’ choices as shared in Clear Admit’s DecisionWire, we take a closer look at a candidate considering Columbia Business School or Wharton for tech. The candidate laid out their choice: Initial feedback favored the full ride from CBS: Read more

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CLASS SIZE: 866

Women: 47%

MEAN GMAT: 732

MEAN GPA: 3.7

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December 21, 2024 12:13pm ET

Applying: Dartmouth / Tuck, Northwestern / Kellogg, UPenn / Wharton, UT Austin / McCombs, UVA / Darden

Intake Year: 2025

Pre-MBA Career: Military/Corporate Logistics

Post-MBA Target Industry: Consulting Companies: Bain , BCG , McKinsey

GRE: 302

GPA: 3.63

Years of Work Experience: 9

Notes:

Submitting for R2, but retaking GRE after application deadline. Military Vet with Corporate experience.

December 20, 2024 5:17pm ET

Applying: Columbia, Duke / Fuqua, Harvard Business School, MIT Sloan, Northwestern / Kellogg, Stanford GSB, U. Chicago Booth, UPenn / Wharton

Intake Year: 2025

Pre-MBA Career: Healthcare

Post-MBA Target Industry: Consulting Companies: Bain , BCG

GRE: 332

GPA: 3.5

Years of Work Experience: 3

Location: Florida

Post MBA Location: Consulting

Notes:

25F, lgbtq, 3 years as a registered nurse. also have started working for an early stage VC in the past several months.

December 19, 2024 4:44pm ET

Applying: Berkeley / Haas, Stanford GSB

Intake Year: 2025

Pre-MBA Career: Insurance

Post-MBA Target Industry: Entrepreneurship

GRE: 318

GPA: 3.59

Years of Work Experience: 3.5

Location: Georgia

Post MBA Location: Southeast

Notes:

Looking to launch a tech startup post MBA, without any background in tech. Come from a quant heavy background and undergraduate coursework. I regularly attended admissions events, in person and online at my schools. I hope that focusing energy on my few top schools and spending a lot of time on essays will help me overcome the less than average test score (164 quant 154 verbal) and GPA.

Serial entrepreneur with a history of profitable small businesses. Was promoted twice in 3.5 years. Involved in many extracurricular activities in and outside of work. My background is very centered around financial services/insurance, is this a red flag for a pivot to Tech Entrepreneurship?

Transferred between two state schools in the southeast. School I graduated from is a top 25 undergrad business program. Obtained a few professionals designations post grad.

December 18, 2024 11:38am ET

Applying: Michigan / Ross, UNC Kenan-Flagler, Vanderbilt / Owen

Intake Year: 2025

Pre-MBA Career: Held various positions in Finance and Accounting in a healthcare institution

Post-MBA Target Industry: Consulting, Other Companies: BCG , Deloitte , Other

GPA: 3.0

Years of Work Experience: 11

Location: International

Notes:

I am passionate about healthcare enhancing patient quality care. So exploring in that field is what I would love. Got a 72k scholarship from Vandy and named Forte Fellow. UNC 50k. I'm having a hard time deciding though my heart is leaning towards Owen

December 18, 2024 10:23am ET

Applying: Arizona State / W.P. Carey, Indiana / Kelley, Ohio State / Fisher

Intake Year: 2025

Pre-MBA Career: Facility management

Post-MBA Target Industry: Consulting

GRE: 309

GPA: 2.8

Years of Work Experience: 3

Notes:

Graduate GPA -3.869

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December 21, 2024 8:37am ET

Accepted to Duke / Fuqua

Round: Round 1

Received via phone on December 11, 2024

GMAT: 675

Program Type: Traditional Two-Year

Target Career: Consulting

December 21, 2024 2:38am ET

Waitlisted at Duke / Fuqua

Round: Round 1

Received via phone on December 10, 2024

GPA: 3.27

GMAT: 760

Program Type: Traditional Two-Year

Target Career: Finance

Application Location: CA

December 20, 2024 11:16pm ET

Accepted to Babson / Olin

Round: Round 1

Received via email on December 17, 2024

GPA: 3.9

Program Type: Traditional Two-Year

Target Career: Consulting

Application Location: South Asia

December 20, 2024 7:50pm ET

Accepted to Columbia

Round: Round 1

Received via portal on December 10, 2024

GMAT: 750

Program Type: Traditional Two-Year

Application Location: India

Note:

$100k scholarship

December 20, 2024 3:21pm ET

Accepted to Yale SOM

Round: Round 1

Received via email December 20, 2024

GPA: 4.0

GMAT: 750

Program Type: Traditional Two-Year

Note:

100% scholarship

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