Tag: admissions

The Chronicle of Higher Education delves into WashU’s admissions policies, Pell Grants history, and commitment to diversity in an article and video interview with Provost Holden Thorp. The article, “A Distinction Washington U. Wants to Lose: Least Economically Diverse” includes interviews with students and the Provost who says, “We have an obligation to do what we can to address the persistent inequality that plagues America.”

Watch video with Provost Thorp here.

WUSTL Newsroom release on University’s commitment to socio-economic diversity, affordability.

Evan is assistant dean and director of admissions for Olin’s MBA program. Poets & Quants features Evan in its “Gatekeepers” series profiling admissions officers at top business schools. Find out how many schools Evan has attended and how many degrees he has – you’ll be impressed!

Bloomberg Businessweek, July 23, 2014. Yale SOM’s Plan to Expand Access to B-School: A $100 Discount Evan Bouffides, assistant dean and director of MBA admissions and financial aid at Olin, says the school saw a large jump in applications—and increases in class quality and diversity—when it wiped away its fee a few years ago. “It’s been absolutely worth it for us.”