Written by: Marc Ethier and Nathan Allen
Published by: Poets&Quants
MBA News Digest Comment: None.
Extracted Content: For many international MBA students, it boils down to this: If a global pandemic isn’t an “extenuating circumstance,” what is?
That’s Marcelo Stilman’s question for Cornell. Selected to join the Johnson Graduate School of Management’s one-year Accelerated MBA program this fall, Stilman watched as the world imploded in March over the novel coronavirus COVID-19, upending schedules, graduations, and curricula, and moving instruction everywhere online for the foreseeable future. As economies around the world began to constrict, the native of Sao Paolo, Brazil, asked Cornell for a deferral to fall 2021, or in lieu of that, a return of his $3,000 deposit.