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  <title><![CDATA[The Ashmons of Montezuma: A Family Affair]]></title>
  <body><![CDATA[<p>After Shannon Ashmon was admitted to Georgia Tech&rsquo;s Global Business MBA program, he encouraged his big sister LaShavous &ldquo;Shay&rdquo; Ashmon to apply so they could go through the graduate program together. Their matriculation would be a family reunion of sorts, since the two had been undergraduates together at Tech some 20 years ago.</p>

<p>&ldquo;There was never a question of whether Shay would get into the program. It was more a question of whether I would get in,&rdquo; Shannon joked, acknowledging his sister&rsquo;s academic excellence. They began the program in August 2016.</p>

<h4><a href="http://www.news.gatech.edu/features/graduate-profile-shay-and-shannon-ashmon">Read their full story</a></h4>
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<p>Institute Communications</p>
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