The Differentiator: What it Takes to Get into Business School

Episode #6 - A Pivot, Aerospace Engineering, and Advice

Meet Daisuke Atarashi, formerly of IBM and Siemens, as he discusses his pivot from a master's-level education in Aerospace Engineering to a career in Management.  Daisuke and Jeremy Krell explore Daisuke's process of selecting a career pivot, learning how his dream school (MIT) and his best-fit school (Solvay) may be two different things, and realizing that getting into (or back to) a niche career like management in aerospace engineering requires a non-traditional approach to b-school applications.

Episode #5 - Cornell, Community, and Covid

Join Jeremy Krell and Emma Oanh On, rising strategy consultant and Cornell Johnson MBA candidate, as they explore Oanh's recent career pivot and admissions experience.  Growing up and attending school in Vietnam, Oanh began her career with a 9-year stint in marketing and is using an MBA to transition into consulting. She was admitted this past season to MBA programs at Cornell, the University of Michigan, UCLA, and University of Toronto. In this episode, Oanh shares the importance of preparing Plan A vs. Plan B opportunities and discusses the challenge of juggling life, work, and applications pre-program, along with her ongoing experience balancing an MBA with networking, recruiting, and life.

Episode #4 - Double Masters, Deferrals, Do's and Don'ts

Join Jeremy Krell as he digs into  Aleksander "Sasha" Vlasov's journey as a technical student in Russia gaining admission to Columbia University's Masters in Business Analytics / Financial Engineering program.  With a master's at the Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology (MIPT), Sasha set out to pursue a second masters in the US. Choosing targeted internships and  pursuing challenging technical data science programs at Columbia and CMU made up a few of Sasha's profile differentiators.  Listen in for more!

Episode #3 - The Windy City, Social Impact, & Alphabet Soup

Mabel Shiu, social entrepreneur and Chicago Booth graduate, discusses her journey discovering how to use sustainable business models to develop local communities.  Having completed her B.S. in Business, Finance, and International Management at Indiana University's Kelley School of Business, Mabel was eager to identify a track that would allow her to pursue a business career while also focusing on social impact. The opportunity to explore leadership via social impact came through hands-on opportunities Mabel accessed through both b-school and her background as a  lean six sigma black belt. Along the way, Mabel learned how to maximize the b-school experience and trust her intuition: and she also found that standard application practices aren't always the way to go!

Episode #2 - Banking & Brides

Meet Catherine Ko, MSc candidate at Imperial College Business School, as she discusses her career pivot from luxury management to strategic marketing with former Booth admissions committee member Jeremy Krell.