In this episode we sit down with Chase Lin (GSB '27), a joint MA/MBA candidate at Stanford studying education and business administration. Chase grew up in a first-generation household in Queens, went to NYU Stern, and built a career across consulting, JP Morgan and Iron Mountain before deciding an MBA was how he'd close the gap between his technology background and the thing he actually cares about, which is education access.
Chase walks through how he tied that background to a long-running passion for education, why he treated every optional section of the application as real estate worth using, and how he closed the gaps in his profile without chasing credentials for their own sake. He gets into retaking the GRE until he maxed out his verbal score, the Stanford ethos that shaped how he presented himself, and the banana shirt he wore to his interview.