To build awareness and encourage more women applicants, Wharton has reached out to undergraduate schools and organised on campus events that enable women students and alumnae to tell their own stories.

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And when consulting firms hire undergraduate students, they screen out the ones who crack under pressure.

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When he hired Raikes from a low-level marketing job at Apple (18 months out of Stanford undergraduate), the new recruit spent a few months living with Ballmer in a dilapidated three-bedroom house in the posh Seattle neighborhood of Laurelhurst, where Raikes now lives.

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Kantor points out that when Michelle was an undergraduate at Princeton one of her aunts worked in town as a cleaning woman a circumstance that she did not widely share with her classmates from Andover, Exeter, and Harvard-Westlake.

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Schuyler also pointed out a distinction between the conversations happening at the undergraduate level and the business school level.

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Unfortunately, it often comes weeks after the class and I do not teach the undergraduate course again for another 9 months, so the loop is seriously out of whack.

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