MBA admissions and Covid-19

2020: we're not even halfway through and it's already upended everything we thought we knew about, well, pretty much everything. Because I work with international clients, I heard about the Chinese lockdowns last January and saw the virus inexorably heading toward the United States. On one of my final trips out of the house pre-Shelter in Place, I met with a client at the GSB Coupa Cafe, each of us grabbing some hand sanitizer from the cafe dispenser. We sat indoors at a table in this crowded gathering spot, me wondering how big a risk we were taking. That was early March, just before Stanford shut down for the rest of the academic year. I haven't left my home, except for brief outings, since then. Spring remained busy in my world, with most of my clients getting interviews at HBS, Columbia, Wharton, MIT Sloan, and others -- and of the seven that applied to Stanford for round 2,...