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Sylvia Leong, Director of External Relations and AdmissionsOverview: Sylvia Leong is the director of external relations and admissions at the Carnegie Mellon Silicon Valley campus. She has over ten years experience in corporate recruiting and graduate school admissions. Prior to joining Carnegie Mellon Silicon Valley, Sylvia was the senior associate director of part-time MBA admissions at the USC Marshall School of Business, where she had previously served as associate director of full-time MBA admissions. In addition to her experiences at academic institutions, Sylvia was the college and university recruiter at Providian Financial Corporation (now Washington Mutual), hiring undergraduates and MBAs into the financial services industry. In between the switch from corporate to academia, she worked overseas in China, teaching English as a Foreign Language to local Chinese teachers and Business English to Chinese government officials. Sylvia earned her bachelor’s degree in mass communications from UC Berkeley. |