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Eddie Asbee, Executive Director of Admissions and Scholarship at Cornell Johnson Graduate School of Management, dives into this dynamic program that equips students for careers in finance, tech, healthcare, and more.
In this episode:
Can you give an overview of the Cornell Johnson full-time MBA program, focusing on its more distinctive elements?
Is there anything new at Cornell Johnson that you'd like to highlight?
Is the 1+1 program something that an applicant would apply to before being accepted to Cornell? Or is that something they decide upon while at Cornell?
Can you touch on immersions, intensives, and performance learning?
What do students do for the rest of the second semester after completing their seven-week intensives?
Where do Johnson MBA graduates get jobs both geographically and in terms of industry?
What don't people know about Cornell Johnson that you would like them to know?
Is the school supportive of MBA students starting a business while doing their MBA?
Do you see Cornell Johnson accepting the Executive Assessment in the future?
Who, in your opinion, should take the test and who should seek a waiver?
What do you hope to learn from the essays and written materials in the application that the test and the transcript don't tell you?
Do you still require a goals statement?
What happens to applications after applicants hit submit? How are they processed and evaluated to determine who gets an interview invitation?
Is the interview blind?
When the interviewer completes the interview and makes the recommendation, is that based only on the interview or do they look at the fuller application as well?
What is the interview like?
What advice would you have for re-applicants to Cornell Johnson?
What would you say to an applicant who's interested in applying to Cornell Johnson this year but is also concerned about the possibility of a recession?
What candidates do you not get enough of?
Let's pretend I'm an applicant thinking ahead to 2023-2024. What is the one thing you would advise me to do to prepare myself to apply?