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Admissions Straight Talk
Advice from experts on the MBA, medical school, law school, and graduate school admissions process.
Episodes
- Admissions Straight Talk
Oxford Lecturer Joins Accepted: Welcome, Dr. Sundas Ali [Episode 574]
Send us your admissions questions! Show Summary Dr. Sundas Ali, a former Lecturer at the University of Oxford and now an admissions consultant at Accepted…
Admissions Straight TalkHow to Get into USC Gould School of Law [Episode 573]
Send us your admissions questions! Show Summary In this episode of Admissions Straight Talk, Linda Abraham interviews David Kirschner, the Associate Dean of…
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So You Want to Do an MBA Outside the U.S. [Episode 572]
Send us your admissions questions! Show Summary In this episode of Admissions Straight Talk, Linda Abraham interviews admissions directors from MBA programs…
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Reserve Your Spot at Case Western Medical: An Interview with Christian Essman [Episode 571]
Send us your admissions questions! Show SummaryIn this episode, Linda Abraham interviews Christian Essman, Senior Director of Admissions and Financial Aid at…
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Former Wharton/Lauder Admissions Director Joins Accepted: Welcome Kara Keenan Sweeney [Episode 570]
Send us your admissions questions! Show SummaryMBA admissions veteran Kara Keenan Sweeney has joined Accepted. Formerly part of the admissions team at Wharton…
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Tulane Medical School: How to Get In [Episode 569]
Send us your admissions questions! Show SummaryWould you like to apply to Tulane University School of Medicine, but are you concerned about the intense…
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Get Accepted to PhD Programs in the Humanities [Episode 568]
Send us your admissions questions! Show SummaryHere at Accepted, we're getting more and more inquiries from applicants interested in PhD programs in the…
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Start Medical School in 2025: How to Get Accepted This Year [Episode 567]
Send us your admissions questions! Show SummaryThe 2024-25 medical school application cycle is looming. In fact, for many it's already started. Would you like…
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How to Apply Successfully to STEM PhD Programs [Episode 566]
Send us your admissions questions! Show SummaryHere at Accepted, we're getting more and more inquiries from applicants interested in PhD programs in the STEM…
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How to Get into HEC Paris MBA? [Episode 565]
Send us your admissions questions! Don’t miss our Admissions Straight Talk podcast interview with Sara Vanos, the Executive Director of Marketing and…
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JD-Next: A Great Option for Law School Applicants [Episode 562]
Send us your admissions questions! Show SummaryAre you planning to take the LSAT or the GRE before you apply to law school? Are you dreading it? Well, there's…
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The Inside Scoop on Duke’s Master of Engineering Management (MEM) [Episode 564]
Send us your admissions questions! Show SummaryAre you an engineer who wants to use your technical skills and move into an entrepreneurial or managerial role?…
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MIT Sloan: For Rising Executives Considering an MBA [Episode 563]
Send us your admissions questions! Show SummaryAre you a mid-career manager hoping to elevate your career to senior management? Do you feel your business…
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What You Need to Know to Apply to Medical School [Episode 561]
Send us your admissions questions! Show SummaryWould you like to hear insight based on decades of experience, both advising applicants to a variety of…
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Michigan Ross’ Master in Management (MM): All You Need to Know [Episode 560]
Send us your admissions questions! Show SummaryAre you a college junior or senior with an interest in business and a non-business major? Or perhaps you…
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How to Get into the University of Chicago Law School [Episode 559]
Send us your admissions questions! Show SummaryRanked number three in U.S. News' most recent rankings, the law school at the University of Chicago is a top law…
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All You Need to Know about the New Frist College of Medicine [Episode 558]
Send us your admissions questions! Show SummaryLet's learn about the newest medical school in the United States in this interview with Dr. Caleb Marsh, the…
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Advice for Applicants: Moving from 2023 to 2024 [Episode 557]
Send us your admissions questions! Show SummaryIn this episode of Admissions Straight Talk, host Linda Abraham looks back at her predictions for the 2023/2024…
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What MBA Admission Officers Think of Applicants Using ChatGPT and AI [Episode 556]
Send us your admissions questions! Show SummaryIn this podcast episode, Linda Abraham discusses the use of ChatGPT in MBA application essays with admissions…
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Are You Toast? - Med School Admissions Officers Reveal Interview Timeline [Episode 555]
Send us your admissions questions! Show SummaryIn this episode of Admission Straight Talk, host Linda Abraham addresses the concerns of medical school…
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Applying to Medical School? The Pre-Med Competencies are What You Must Show [Episode 554]
Send us your admissions questions! Show SummaryWhat are the pre-med competencies? And if you're pre-med and planning to apply in September 2024, what do they…
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How to Get Into CMU Tepper’s NEW MS in Management Program [Episode 553]
Send us your admissions questions! Show SummaryCarnegie Mellon University's Tepper School of Business is welcoming a newly launched Masters of Science in…
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ROI and NYU's Part-time MBA [Episode 552]
Send us your admissions questions! Show SummaryIn this episode of Admissions Straight Talk, Linda Abraham discusses MBA return on investment (ROI) and NYU…
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Are you rushing to attend Rush Medical College? [Episode 551]
Send us your admissions questions! Show SummaryDr. Cynthia Boyd, Associate Dean for Admissions and Recruitment at Rush Medical College, discusses the…
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Navigating the Law School Admissions Process [Episode 550]
Send us your admissions questions! Show SummaryBrigitte Suhr, an Accepted law school admissions consultant and a former application reader for UVA Law, shares…
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Stern at NYU Abu Dhabi: A Full-Time MBA in the Middle East
Send us your admissions questions! Show SummaryIn this episode of Admissions Straight Talk, host Linda Abraham interviews Dean Robert Salomon, the inaugural…
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Stanford’s MCiM Combines Technology, Healthcare, and Business
Send us your admissions questions! Show SummaryIn this podcast episode, Linda Abraham interviews Dr. Kevin Schulman, the director of Stanford's Master of…
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Is the University of Texas School of Law For You?
Send us your admissions questions! The University of Texas School of Law offers academic excellence, affordability, and robust support to its students. In this…
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What’s New at Penn’s The Wharton School. And How to Get In.
Send us your admissions questions! Wharton has not changed its application essay questions for several seasons now. This is usually a sign that the admissions…
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How to Get Accepted to Chicago Medical School at Rosalind Franklin University
Send us your admissions questions! Please join me as I speak with Dr. Michael Ellison, Associate Dean for Admissions at Chicago Medical School at the Rosalind…
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ENCORE: Cornell Johnson EMBA Program: 4 Options for the Largest EMBA Program in the U.S. [Episode 543]
Send us your admissions questions! Please enjoy this encore edition of one of Admission Straight Talk’s most popular episodes of 2023: “The Cornell Johnson…
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How to Get Accepted to Berkeley Haas’ Amazing Master of Financial Engineering Program
Send us your admissions questions! Are you looking for a highly respective quantitative program that will prepare you for a career in the most demanding…
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All You Need to Know about BU’s Chobanian & Avedisian School of Medicine
Send us your admissions questions! If you want to know how much of BU medical school's recent $100 million gift it intends to use for scholarships, or what…
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How to Get Into Yale SOM
Send us your admissions questions! How to Get Into Yale SOM [Episode 542]Are you looking for a mission-driven school that aims to educate leaders for business…
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Is Boston University Law For You?
Send us your admissions questions! Located in the heart of vibrant and historic Boston, Boston University School of Law offers enormous breadth to its…
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Admissions Directors Reveal the Most Common Mistakes Applicants Make
Send us your admissions questions! There is tons of advice on Accepted.com and on previous episodes of Admissions Straight Talk, about what you should do when…
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How to Get Into MSU’s College of Osteopathic Medicine
Send us your admissions questions! Michigan State's College of Osteopathic Medicine provides an innovative patient-centered curriculum with multiple…
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How to get into Duke Fuqua
Send us your admissions questions! Leadership, teamwork, and ethics are essential elements of the Duke Fuqua MBA, which is why you’ll need to make sure you…
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Tuft’s MS in Biomedical Sciences: Your Pathway to Med School?
Send us your admissions questions! The Tufts University School of Medicine describes its fundamental mission as promoting human health, with an emphasis on…
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The New, Shorter GMAT Focus: Your Questions Answers
Send us your admissions questions! Thank you to Apex for contributing this informative article!With an industry-leading syllabus Apex offers the most…
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How To Get Accepted To Johns Hopkins School of Medicine
Send us your admissions questions! Do you want to know how to get into Johns Hopkins School of Medicine? Are you wondering what Johns Hopkins' program is like?…
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Can the Consortium Help You Get Accepted and Fund Your MBA?
Send us your admissions questions! Our consultants receive a lot of questions from clients about applying to MBA programs through The Consortium for Graduate…
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What SCOTUS Decision on Affirmative Action Means for Applicants
Send us your admissions questions! Most higher education institutions promote diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) as core values attached to their…
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All You Need to Know About the New, Shorter GRE
Send us your admissions questions! In this episode, Rohit Sharma, Sr. Vice President of Global Higher Education and Workskills, explains how ETS made the GRE…
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Get Accepted to Dartmouth’s Geisel School of Medicine
Send us your admissions questions! In this episode, Professor of Medicine and Medical Education and Associate Dean of Admissions at the Geisel School of…
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How to Get Accepted to Fordham Law
Send us your admissions questions! In this episode, the Assistant Dean of Enrollment at Fordham Law School shares his tips on how to present a winning…
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How to Get an MBA at Columbia Business School
Send us your admissions questions! In this episode, the Senior Associate Dean for Enrollment Management at Columbia Business School explains why there isn’t…
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Encore: Casper, A Situational Judgment Test: All You Need to Know
Send us your admissions questions! Thanks for joining me for the 527th episode of Admissions Straight Talk.Are you applying to a program that requires a…
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How to Apply Successfully to Med School from Postbac Programs
Send us your admissions questions! In this episode, the founder and former Director of San Francisco State University Postbac Programs and Accepted consultant…
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How to Get Accepted to NYU Stern
Send us your admissions questions! In this episode, the Executive Director for MBA Admissions at NYU Stern explains Stern’s Change Studio and Frontier Labs…
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How Service To School Helps Veterans Get Accepted to Grad School
Send us your admissions questions! In this episode, the CEO of Service to School and the Chief Programs Officer at Service to School explore the resources…
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Rejection and Reapplication: How to Respond
Send us your admissions questions! Rejection and Reapplication: How to Respond [Show summary]Admissions guru Linda Abraham highlights four reasons that could…
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How to Get Accepted to Graduate Engineering Programs
Send us your admissions questions! How should you approach an application to a graduate engineering program? Dr. Karin Ash, an admissions consultant and career…
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Get Accepted to the Michigan State’s MD Program
Send us your admissions questions! In this episode, Associate Professor and Assistant Dean of Admissions at Michigan State’s College of Human Medicine…
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Crush the Test by Crushing Your Test Anxiety
Send us your admissions questions! In this episode Dr. Ben Bernstein, author of Crush Your Test Anxiety, explains the role of mind, body, and spirit in…
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Get Into INSEAD, the Business School for the World
Send us your admissions questions! In this episode the Associate Global Director of Admissions & Financial Aid at INSEAD discusses the school’s unique language…
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Encore: What Does 2022 Mean for Applicants in 2023
Send us your admissions questions! Thanks for joining me for the 520th episode of Admissions Straight Talk.I am taking a week off for family time. As a result…
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How to Get into Dartmouth Tuck
Send us your admissions questions! In this episode the Executive Director of Admissions and Financial Aid at Tuck School of Business at Dartmouth discusses…
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All You Need to Know About University of California Irvine Master of Public Health Program
Send us your admissions questions! Tune in to hear all that University of California Irvine program in public health has to offer and learn about the future…
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What’s New at Cornell’s Masters in Engineering Management
Send us your admissions questions! In this episode Dr. Patrick Reed and Prof. Robert Newman discuss the Engineering Management Program at Cornell and what the…