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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]

Podcast interview with Keith Bevans a Bain Company Partner

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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Optimize Your Graduate School Application: Grades, Scores, Essays, Resume, Activity History, and More [Episode 247]

optimize your grad school application linda abraham

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Pediatrician and Social Entrepreneur: Meet Dr. Anne Steptoe [Episode 246]

Dr. Anne Steptoe MedServe blog

Our guest today, Dr. Anne Steptoe, earned her BA in Classics and English at Harvard in 2009. She then worked for two years as a Health Policy Senior Analyst at Mass General Hospital and attended medical school at Brown. Along the way to her current position as a pediatrics resident at UNC Chapel Hill, she …

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Keeping Up with Dr. Andrea Tooley – Ophthalmology Resident and Soon-To-Be-Fellow [Episode 244]

Dr. Andrea Tooley Opthamology Resident Mayo Clinic blog

Dr. Andrea Tooley is currently an ophthalmology resident at the Mayo Clinic who will soon start a fellowship in oculoplastics in NYC.[powerpress] I know you’re a returning guest, but can you tell us a little about yourself? Your background, where you grew up, went to college and medical school? [1:22] I am originally from Sarasota, …

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The Toronto Rotman MBA Program: Where Application Volume is Soaring [Episode 243]

Jamie Young Dir MBA Admissions Rotman SOM blog

Today for the first time we welcome Jamie Young, Director of Recruitment & Admissions for the Full-Time MBA Program at the Rotman School of Management at the University of Toronto. Jamie graduated from McMaster University in 2008 and has worked in Canadian higher ed since then. He came to Rotman in January 2016 to assume …

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Meet Dr. Akshat Kumar, Wharton MBA ‘19 [Episode 242]

Dr. Akshat Kumar MBA Wharton Blog

Our guest today, Dr. Akshat Kumar, earned his MD from Kasturba Medical College in India and completed his residency in Internal Medicine at Rutgers University/St. Peter’s University Hospital in New Jersey, where he became Chief Resident and then Attending Physician. In his spare time he co-founded thewisemd.com and later joined WellUHealth as Business Development Lead …

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