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The following CMU Tepper interview questions & report were submitted to Clear Admit by a Round 1 applicant.
I had applied for Round 1 and I got the interview call almost on the next day of the deadline. It was a Skype interview with an Admissions Officer. The interview lasted for 30 minutes as was the plan. The interview was supposed to happen over the browser on the Tepper website but it didn’t seem to be working so she Skyped me.
First she set the tone for the interview by mentioning that she has walked through my resume but hasn’t read the rest of my application. So it was a blind interview. Said she’ll ask mostly behavioral questions and would like me to cite examples. She confirmed with me where I’ve worked and how my roles have evolved.
It was a very conversational interview and she hardly grilled me on anything. There was nothing surprising as I had prepared for most of these questions based on the previous year interview experiences I had read of Tepper.
I thought my interview went well because I could give answers to every question without fumbling much. There was just one question where I didn’t answer the question as she had expected so she asked me more specifically about the question. Overall, she seemed satisfied with my answers and nodded in agreement during most of my responses.
I expected an admit based on this experience but surprisingly I was rejected. I’m not sure where I went wrong but at least the interview seemed to have gone well. Perhaps, it was my low scores in quantitative subjects in undergraduate college that went against me. Tepper really focuses on quantitative skills because of the analytical nature of the program. Overall, the school seemed a good fit for me based on my research and my interview experience with a very friendly admissions committee who responded promptly to any queries.
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