Pinetop Smith had died of a gunshot wound in Chicago by then so the top boogie piano players were Lux Lewis, Albert Ammons and Kansas City's own, PeteJohnson.
To assess the impact of these changes, and better understand what MBA admissions are looking for in their applicants, I asked PeteJohnson, 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.