In this role, she conducted classes of 30-80 students on Excel, Word, and PowerPoint. She started out as a TA and proctor for the University of Denver’s Microsoft Office Certification Program. That’s why professors relish having them in their classes - and treat them more as partners than pupils.īETTER STUDENT EVALUATIONS THAN SOME PROFESSORSĮxhibit A: Hannah McDonald. Instead, they seek out common ground that brings people together and harnesses their strengths. They don’t look to always be right or be the smartest.
Others live by a “Lift as you climb” code that compels them to put others first. Some command the room with their contagious energy. They label these students with terms like “born leader” and the “hardest worker I know.” They describe them as tireless workers who lead by example and set the standard for their peers. What do this year’s Best & Brightest have in common? Just ask the faculty. In addition, 10 students hail from nations outside the United States, including Ghana, Egypt, Portugal, Bulgaria, Nepal, and China. Overall, the list includes 58 women and 42 men.
However, P&Q encouraged the programs to consider students based on factors like academic performance, extracurricular leadership, and innate potential. Like previous years, the schools chose their representatives using their own selection criteria and process. To compile this year’s list, P&Q invited each of the Top 50 undergraduate Business Schools to submit two students. Entering its 7th year, the Best & Brightest features seniors who embody the best in business education. Sunjay Letchuman is among the 100 seniors honored in Poets&Quants’ Best & Brightest Business Majors of 2022. Sunjay is the only undergraduate student that I have collaborated with on academic research, and he is the only undergraduate student in the history of our business school to ever publish in a medical journal.” His spirit of volunteerism to help others is unrivaled. He not only is intellectually gifted at the highest level, he is mature beyond his years, kind and generous, hard-working, and very determined to use his talents to make a positive difference in the world. “He truly is brilliant, but what impresses me most is his character. “Sunjay is the finest undergraduate student I have taught in 50 years of teaching,” Berry tells Poets&Quants. Bonding over their mutual interests in customer service and medical care, they formed a unique teacher-student partnership - one that has resulted in two co-authored papers in Mayo Clinic Proceedings and another in the Harvard Business Review.
Leonard Berry, the school’s most cited researcher. This passion led him into the orbit of Dr. Senate, Letchuman is consumed by boosting patient outcomes. A Rhodes Scholar nominee who has interned with the U.S. Here, you’ll find Sunjay Letchuman, a senior who’ll join the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai next fall. That’s the case at Texas A&M’s Mays Business School. Sometimes, they become protégés who contribute alongside their professors. In business school, students are often more than pupils who are guided and graded. Their experiences lend fresh takes on old truths - and their questions expose what’s taken for granted. Every day, their learners teach them something new.