I applied to Wharton Round 1 and was invited to do a Zoom TBD with other applicants – we had two second-year students reviewing our session and doing the individual portions. Our TBD group was pretty on-top of it, except our presentation ended about a minute and a half early, which we couldn’t do much about. This year’s prompt was about Leadership Initiative ventures, and our group had a bunch of really creative ideas. All in all, the experience took a full hour and forty minutes, including waiting for my turn for the 1 on 1 portion.
As for the individual portion, it went fairly well – they let us know in advance that they would be asking us the same questions in the same order in the interest of fairness and the individual interview was fairly standard.
Questions asked:
- Any updates for us?
- Why an MBA?
- Why Wharton?
- What’s a piece of criticism received from a direct supervisor?
- How did you grow off of/receive that piece of criticism?
All in all, enjoyed my experience and am really hoping to get in, although I feel that the experience of actually being on campus for my HBS interview helped me get a better grasp of that school as opposed to this Zoom-based experience. Advice to other students for the TBD: engage collaboratively as opposed to competitively, be prepared for standard behavioral questions in your individual interview.
