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MIT Sloan Fellow, User Experience Expert, and Busy Mom [Episode 259]

Katie Luby MIT Sloan Fellow blog

[powerpress] Show Summary Katie Luby will be graduating this spring from the MIT Sloan Fellows program, and can’t say enough good things about the experience. Coming from Salesforce, and with an anthropology and design educational background, business school was a whole new animal. Katie feels her experience at MIT Sloan Fellows will uniquely enhance her …

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Meet Dr. Nadia Afridi, Plastic Surgeon, Recent Columbia EMBA, and Mom [Episode 258]

Dr. Nadia Afridi Plastic Surgeon Columbia EMBA blog

Our guest today, Dr. Nadia Afridi earned her bachelors and MD in Canada and then did a residency in plastic surgery at Dalhousie University. She also earned her Executive MBA from Columbia in 2017.[powerpress] Can you tell us about your background?  Where you grew up? What do you like to do for fun? [1:09] I …

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Meet Harvard MD/MPH Student and Premed Podcaster Mary Tate [Episode 257]

Mary Tate MD MPH Student Harvard Med School

Our guest today is soon-to-be doctor Mary Tate and current 4th year medical student at Harvard Medical School. Mary graduated from Dartmouth in 2012 and has been at HMS since 2013. She was very active at Dartmouth and continued to be a change agent at HMS. In 2017 she earned her MPH at Harvard’s Chan …

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Let’s Learn about Utah SOM from its Associate Dean of Admissions [Episode 256]

Dr. Benjamin Chan Asst Dean Admissions U of Utah SOM blog

Our guest today is Dr. Benjamin Chan, Associate Dean of Admissions and Idaho Affairs at the University of Utah’s School of Medicine and host of the Talking Admissions & Med Student Life podcast. Dr. Chan earned his bachelors at Stanford and his MD at UUCOM. He then trained in General Psychiatry at George Washington University …

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USC Marshall’s Kellee Scott: Don’t Be Rigid, Boring or Tedious! [Episode 255]

Kellee Scott USC Marshall Senior Assoc Dir MBA Admissions blog

It gives me great pleasure to welcome Kellee Scott. This is Kellee’s first time on AST, but she is no stranger to Accepted, having participated in our old online chats. Kellee earned her bachelors in business at the University of Miami and worked in business for companies like Unilever and Ernst and Young. Then she …

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Dr. Calvin Sun, ER Resident, Entrepreneur, and Adventurer [Episode 254]

Dr Calvin Sun ER Resident Entrepreneur blog

Warning: Our guest today has done so much that it’s going to be really hard to give his background succinctly, but here goes. Dr. Calvin Sun earned his bachelors in 2008 at Columbia where he held numerous leadership positions. In 2014, he graduated from SUNY Downstate College of Medicine and served as graduating class president. …

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Encore – Everything You Need to Know About Your Grad School Application [Episode 253]

Linda Abraham Optimize Your Grad School Application blog

This week we are airing an encore of one of our more popular podcasts this year, which is “Optimize Your Grad School Application.” It’s an excellent time to air this podcast, because many of you are looking ahead to apply this summer or fall.  Reviewing the different moving parts of the grad school application, their …

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An Interview with Dartmouth Tuck’s Admissions Director, Luke Pena [Episode 252]

Luke Pena Exec Dir of admissions  financial aid Tuck School of Business blog

It gives me great pleasure to have for the first time on AST, Luke Pena, Executive Director of Admissions and Financial Aid at The Tuck School of Business at Dartmouth. Luke earned his bachelors in PR and business at USC in 2006 and cut his admissions teeth at USC’s Annenberg School of Communication. He subsequently …

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Bain & Company’s Keith Bevans Talks About Careers, Life at Bain [Episode 251]

Keith Bevans BainCompany Partner blog

One of the biggest motivations, if not the biggest motivation, for applying to graduate school is career enhancement and achievement of professional goals. For many MBAs and some other graduate students, consulting has irresistible appeal. Today it is my distinct pleasure to have on Admissions Straight Talk Keith Bevans, Partner and Global Head of Consulting …

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Early Career Management and European MBA Programs with Jamie Wright [Episode 249]

Jamie Wright Former LBS Admissions Dir

Our guest today is Jamie Wright. She grew up in California, started her career in PR in Chicago, and then crossed the pond in 2009 to become the Client Services Manager at London Business School’s then brand-new Masters in Management (MIM) program. Jamie rose to become the admissions director for all early career programs at …

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How to Get Into NYIT’s College of Osteopathic Medicine [Episode 250]

Gina Moses Dir Admissions NYIT COM blog

Our guest today, Gina Moses, is the Director of Admissions at New York Institute of Technology’s College of Osteopathic Medicine. Prior to taking this position in 2016, she worked for almost ten years as the Associate Director of Recruitment and Application Services for the American Association of College of Osteopathic Medicine. Gina also worked in …

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Keeping Healthcare Human: The Arnold P Gold Foundation [Episode 248]

Dr. Dorothy Levine Gold Humanism Society blog

Note to readers: Dr. Arnold P Gold passed away the week before our interview took place. This interview is dedicated to his memory. I’m so pleased to have on the show Dr. Dorothy Levine, Director of the Gold Humanism Honor Society. Dr. Levine earned her bachelors at Princeton, her MD at Albert Einstein, and did …

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