MBA Interview Tips & Resources
Welcome to the MBA Interview Resource Hub
Are you about to interview at a top business school? Looking to ensure you can ace every MBA admissions interview question? We’ve gathered together all of our interview prep resources in one place to help ensure you spend your time efficiently and can excel in your interview.
In the interview, the MBA admissions committee is seeking to get a sense of who you are, the choices you have made to date, and your reasons for seeking an MBA at their program. The schools also use the interview to gauge your “fit” with their cultures and offerings.
Given the importance of the interview, it is essential for you to prepare. On this page you will find a list of key Clear Admit MBA admissions interview tips, advice and resources that will help you ace your interviews.
Clear Admit Admissions Tips: Interview Prep
Understanding Interview Procedures
Interview Preparation and Follow-Up Advice
Clear Admit Interview Strategy Videos
Be sure to review Clear Admit’s interview preparation videos where we review different interview formats as common interview questions in the Clear Admit+ Admissions Academy Series.
Watch the rest of our Admissions Academy Interview Strategy Videos at the links below:
LiveWire Interview Invite Updates
The interviewer kind of hinted I would be rejected or waitlist in the end of the meeting. Could feel the negativity from him in the when I received his email. He seems not to be grateful about or satisfied with his Ross experience. Don’t know why he volunteered to interview for the school. The result could be exactly the same if I was interviewed by someone else. But I have to say this alum showed me a poor image of Ross even if I was accepted. Well, that’s the way it is. Congratulations to all the folks who made it.
The interviewer kind of hinted I would be rejected or waitlist in the end of the meeting. Could feel the negativity from him in the beginning. He seems not to be grateful about or satisfied with his Ross experience. Don’t know why he volunteered to interview for the school. The result could be exactly the same if I was interviewed by someone else. But I have to say this alum shows me a poor image of Ross even if I was accepted. Well, that’s the way it is. Congratulations to all the folks who made it.
I submitted a letter of continued interest to state a refinement of my career goal, as well as a very detailed game plan of how to achieve the goals at CBS. I also had an additional rec letter from a CBS alum and attended a Class Visit.
Clear Admit Interview Strategy Podcast Episodes
The following podcasts provide in-depth guidance on key strategies you can use to prepare for your interviews. Be sure to give them a listen.
7 Hardest MBA Interview Questions and How to Answer Them
5 Most Common MBA Interview Questions You Need to Ace
How to Interview at Harvard Business School
Tips for the Wharton Team-Based Discussion (TBD)
Interview Report Archives
Our free archive of over 2,000 MBA admissions interview reports includes self-reported accounts from applicants with thousands and thousands of questions asked! It is the largest repository of MBA interview reports on the web. What better way to prepare than to see what interview questions schools are asking recent applicants? You can sort the archive by the specific school and also find reports that match your interview type (alumni, current student, admissions officer). You can thank us for this amazing resource by uploading your own reports when you’ve finished interviewing 😊
Clear Admit Interview Guides
- Available for 21 leading MBA programs! Our interview guides provide you with school-specific insight and strategic advice to help you ace your admissions interviews. Each Clear Admit Interview Guide includes:
- School-specific strategy
- Evaluation of how the admissions committee weighs the interview
- First-hand interview accounts
- A comprehensive list of sample questions consistently asked
- In-depth analysis on how to answer the most popular questions by that particular program
- Detailed information on planning a campus visit
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Yale School of Management
MBA Applywire
Stanford GSB is my dream MBA program for multiple reasons (entrepreneurship focus, location, size, social impact) to the point where I'm considering doing a 'Stanford or bust' approach to MBA applications. With that in mind, I want to think about how to bring my best application forward when I apply Round 1 in 2025 (for a 2026 intake) and/or if I should be rethinking my app strategy.
Age: 27
Nationality: American
Race: Mixed (Asian/Pacific Islander/White)
Gender: Female
Current Title:
Senior Program Manager at a B-Corp, public edtech company; trying to pivot to a Senior Product Marketing role right now
Also an educational content creator with ~200k followers on YouTube; will likely have at least 500k by the time of applying (I approach building this channel as a full business, and while I own the creative production and strategy, I also collaborate with others including freelance editors, brand teams, and a management team)
Undergrad: Top 10 Undergrad in US
GPA: 3.6 (majors were media & business - little to no quant background)
Extracurriculars:
- YouTube channel (a job and extracurricular, I guess)
- Volunteer admissions interviewer for my undergrad for past 4 years
- Volunteer alumni mentorship program
- Digital nomad - past 4 years I've spend 25% of the year traveling, mostly abroad, while working
- Hobbies include improv comedy, yoga, and tennis but not sure if any of those would be captured in an application?
GRE: 325 (Verbal 162; Quant 163) (I think I'm going to take these again to try and get those scores up)
Post-MBA Goals: Starting a larger media brand/company that would create digital education content; or working at a very early-stage startup in a marketing leadership role (ideally at a social-impact focused startup)
Misc:
- I started a video marketing company in undergrad that I ran for 3 years; had lots of large hospital clients
- I was a part-time professional voiceover artist for 2 years (side business I started during COVID when I was bored)
- My Youtube content has been featured/I've been interviewed on multiple national news sites
(PS. I actually submitted one of these entries back in 2020 when I was first thinking of doing an MBA! At the time you all told me that if I didn't get into my top programs that I should hold off for a future intake, and I'm glad I have! I think my career has grown a lot since then; I've gotten to work on really interesting projects at my company; I've grown a business outside of work; etc. and now I'm feeling like it might be close to making sense for an MBA)
I'm an Indian origin Chemical Engineering student from BITS Pilani, Pilani Campus. I have half a year thesis internship experience in Prague, in R&D work. However, post graduation, I have digressed to management consultancy after a brief stint in an Oil & Gas company and intend to pursue consultancy post MBA. I have a promotion due in some time so that could show progression in my career.
I have led a TEDx club during my time in college, and I have some volunteering experience as a freelancer where I have supported volunteer groups during the pandemic, and have conducted a tree plantation drive (plated 400 trees) to rehabilitate cyclone affected regions.
I am not sure how much it would impact my application, but I am also a French citizen. I am planning to take another try at my GMAT and apply for M7 colleges in R2, while focus on the other colleges in R1 to bolster my safe position.
Those who have a GMAT waiver cover all tuition and stipends for international students.
MBA LiveWire
The interviewer kind of hinted I would be rejected or waitlist in the end of the meeting. Could feel the negativity from him in the when I received his email. He seems not to be grateful about or satisfied with his Ross experience. Don’t know why he volunteered to interview for the school. The result could be exactly the same if I was interviewed by someone else. But I have to say this alum showed me a poor image of Ross even if I was accepted. Well, that’s the way it is. Congratulations to all the folks who made it.
The interviewer kind of hinted I would be rejected or waitlist in the end of the meeting. Could feel the negativity from him in the beginning. He seems not to be grateful about or satisfied with his Ross experience. Don’t know why he volunteered to interview for the school. The result could be exactly the same if I was interviewed by someone else. But I have to say this alum shows me a poor image of Ross even if I was accepted. Well, that’s the way it is. Congratulations to all the folks who made it.
I submitted a letter of continued interest to state a refinement of my career goal, as well as a very detailed game plan of how to achieve the goals at CBS. I also had an additional rec letter from a CBS alum and attended a Class Visit.