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
Strategy consultant with Deloitte India. 4 yr gap in CV for a major personal impediment. Waitlisted in R2, submitted a LOCI + addition LoR + community referral. No update on portal, so assuming I continue to remain on the waitlist. Has anyone received an admit in R3? Don't know what to do next. I have an admit at UNC with 100k scholarship but Darden truly is my dream school
Test Waiver, 5 year Veteran, 1.5 year tech consulting, interviewed in R3
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
MBA Applywire
Currently a digital marketer with ~15 years of experience applying to EMBA programs. My company is financially sponsoring a large part of the program. I have a decent GMAT score (49Q, 40V), but slacked off my first couple of years in college and miraculously pulled out a 3.02 despite that.
My decision to pursue an EMBA program is primarily to 1) help booster my managements skills, 2) deepen my knowledge especially in finance, and 3) learn skills & techniques that I can apply real-time to my current job, as well as my real estate investments. I am passionate about historic preservation as well as sustainability and want to find a program that shares either or both of those.
About Me
Started out in campaign management for a company that sold innovative (at the time) crowsourced advertising campaigns to global brands. Within a few months, promoted to a Business Development position, working closely with clients such as Hasbro, IHOP, KIA, and Samsung. I ended up also developing marketing materials that I shared with the rest of the sales team and that turned me onto marketing. During this time, I was selected by the Miami Ad School as an Industry Hero and taught a weeklong course on crowdsourcing at their school.
Spent 7 years at an education consultancy, where I lead digital marketing. Worked with the company's other offices around the globe (22 locations) to build lead generation and nurturing campaigns with a small team I lead, leading to a 450% increase in qualified leads. Additionally, I developed and implemented an online delivery of their products and events, which proved to have a massive impact with Covid's impact on the in-person portion of the business. I also implemented marketing and project management automation - improving efficiency, eliminating errors, and minimizing duplication. The estimated time savings from this was over 50 hours of work per week.
For the past three years, I've worked as a digital marketing manager for a brand within the Nestle portfolio where I drive multi-channel marketing campaigns.
* Met or exceeded goals every year
* Founding member of our division's Culture Club and was selected as one of the committee leads within the club
* Won an internal global contest for best use of Generative AI - which was highlighted across the global organization
While I'm currently working on a single brand, my role is expanding to cover the rest of the division's brands - where I can make an even greater impact.
Assist my father managing his commercial real estate investments. This includes a mixed-use property with 450+ unit apartments, a historic hotel, and a large historic office building currently the headquarters of one of the largest food and beverage companies in the USA. I attend quarterly board meetings, and provide advice from my own expertise in marketing.
Volunteering Highlights:
Co-Founded ECO-Audit USA - the US branch of the Jane Goodall Institute's ECO-Audit program - partnering with businesses to have high-school students conduct environmental audits of their workplace.
Heavily involved in a hobby called fingerboarding - and have a semipopular YouTube channel (even selected by YouTube as a Creator on the Rise). I help fund and organize in-person events across the country and have even been featured in publications such as Paper Magazine for this hobby.
P.S. Big fan of the podcast! I've listened to dozens of episodes over the past few years... it kept me motivated listening to both of you during my arduous GMAT journey
-24, 4YOE on-matriculation.
-Asian-American Male.
-CS undergrad from T20 eng school.
-Looking to return to IBM in different org/role
-161V/165Q GRE split
MBA LiveWire
Strategy consultant with Deloitte India. 4 yr gap in CV for a major personal impediment. Waitlisted in R2, submitted a LOCI + addition LoR + community referral. No update on portal, so assuming I continue to remain on the waitlist. Has anyone received an admit in R3? Don't know what to do next. I have an admit at UNC with 100k scholarship but Darden truly is my dream school
Test Waiver, 5 year Veteran, 1.5 year tech consulting, interviewed in R3