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Kara Keenan Sweeney, Director of Admissions Marketing and Financial Aid at the Lauder Institute at the University of Pennsylvania's Wharton School and Penn Law School shares how the program continues to offer global opportunities during a COVID influenced world.

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Can you give us an overview of the Wharton Lauder program for those listeners who aren't that familiar with it?

Are you also a joint program with the law school?

Does the Lauder Institute only work with applicants interested in dual degrees?

Does the dual degree program take the same amount of time as just an MBA or JD degree?

Has anybody ever tried to do an MBA/JD with the Lauder program?

How has Wharton Lauder, a program that reveled in travel, adapted and adjusted its plans during the pandemic?

How is the war in Ukraine affecting travel and the Lauder immersion program to Poland and Hungary?

How do you go through an application?

Does every Lauder participant know at least two languages?

What are the 10 languages that you teach at Lauder?

What about students who speak a different language outside of the 10 offered languages?

Do you plan to keep the same application questions for next year?

What gets you excited about an application to Lauder?

What is the wrong way to approach the application questions?

What about the applicant who is multilingual, has international experience and global career goals but their undergraduate GPA is not something they're terribly proud of?

Is it possible to refer an applicant from the Lauder pool to the regular MBA admissions if you see they’ll be a better fit there?

What is the Lauder interview like?

Where do a lot of grads get their jobs?

Here are some questions from an international listener. “Why are most compulsory admission essay prompts so personal? On a personal note, I cried trying to unearth memories I had buried so deeply, so I could write truthfully. It was a worthwhile experience and a reconciliation with the past that made me feel very vulnerable. Is vulnerability in an essay whether perceived, real, or imagined a good element?”

The second question from our listener is, “How do you consider international students who apply to universities and cannot pay at least 5% to 10% of the fees? Do you get irritated and wonder if they consider the university a charity home?”