Taha Yasseri, a physicist at the Budapest University of Technology and Economics, created a mathematical model that takes into account data such as the number of readers and editors for the Wikipedia page.

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To assess the impact of these changes, and better understand what MBA admissions are looking for in their applicants, I asked Pete Johnson, former executive director of Admissions for the full-time program at Berkeley-Haas, and now colleague and advisory director at Fortuna Admissions, and vice president of Student Services at Central European University in Budapest for his perspective.

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