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Kellogg MBA Admissions Interview Questions: Round 1 / Phone Interview / Adcom

The interviewer told me up front the interview was blind and that all she had was my resume. It lasted 18 minutes. These were the questions she asked.

  • Tell me about your career progress.
  • How have you made progress or moved ahead from job to job?
  • Given all your experience, why do you want to quit your job now and get an MBA? (I clarified that I will be returning to the same company post MBA and proceeded to answer why MBA and why Kellogg.)
  • If things don’t work out at your current firm then what will you do? – told her I was committed to private equity and might even raise capital and start my own private equity firm
  • What would you say is a weakness in your application? – stated the obvious about short durations at the last couple of jobs, but said I had good reasons for moving each time.