Interview Questions & Reports

The following Washington / Foster MBA interview questions and report were submitted to Clear Admit by a Round 1 applicant. Good luck to them! I interviewed with an Admissions Director over Skype. The interview started on time and lasted about 35 minutes. Here are some questions I was asked: 1. Walk me through your résumé after graduating from… Read more

The following Yale MBA interview questions and report were submitted to Clear Admit by a Round 1 applicant. Good luck to them! Interview in a hotel conference room. The Adcom member was pleasant and offered polite conversation and explained the interview process before proceeding. The whole thing took exactly 30 minutes. Prior to the interview I was asked… Read more

The following U. Chicago Booth interview questions and report were submitted to Clear Admit by a Round 1 applicant. Good luck to them! Met the recent alum at a coffee shop. She only had my résumé and it was very conversational for about an hour. Overall it was a very straightforward process. Introduce yourself/walk me through your… Read more

The following Vanderbilt / Owen MBA interview questions and report were submitted to Clear Admit by a Round 1 applicant. Good luck to them!  I had a Skype interview with an Admissions Director. She called me promptly at the designated time, not a minute later. These are the questions I remember being asked: What are your post-MBA plans after… Read more

The following U. Chicago Booth interview questions and report were submitted to Clear Admit by a Round 1 applicant. Good luck to them! I had an interview with an Alum at his office. The alum only had access to my résumé, which I had e-mailed prior to my interview. He told me to treat it as a… Read more

The following MIT Sloan interview questions and report were submitted to Clear Admit by a Round 2 applicant who was admitted. Congratulations to them! This interview took place last cycle [2015-2016 admissions cycle]. Interview was with an adcom at a very nice local MBB consulting office. I grabbed a bottle of water in the reception area and waited by… Read more

The following INSEAD interview questions report was submitted to Clear Admit by a Round 4 applicant who was accepted. Congratulations to them! First interview This was with an alumnus who studied at INSEAD in the 1990s. Arranging the interview was extremely smooth (as he has a PA). After feeling slightly intimidated by the interviewer’s impressive office, I quickly calmed… Read more

The following Dartmouth / Tuck interview questions and report were submitted to Clear Admit by an Early Action Round Applicant. Good luck to them!  My interview was with a second year student who was very polite and nice. She set the stage at the beginning of the interview, noting that it was going to be about 30 minutes and she… Read more

The following Columbia MBA interview questions report was submitted to Clear Admit by a Round 2 applicant. The interview was at the alum’s place of employment. I was dressed formally and prepared fairly diligently by using personal resources as well as some of the posts found here. When I was given my choice of interviewers, I found that all of… Read more

The following Northwestern / Kellogg interview questions report was submitted to Clear Admit by a Round 1 applicant. Good luck to them!  I interviewed this past Friday AM with an admissions counselor. She was generally very friendly and the tone was quite conversational, although her demeanor was fairly serious – I believe it was because she was trying to… Read more

The following Duke Fuqua interview questions and report were submitted to Clear Admit by a Round 1 applicant. Good luck to them! Interview took place mid-September during the Open Interview period for Round 1 in the Fuqua School of Business. Sat in small meeting room for a very conversational, laid-back interview. It was a blind-application interview with a 2nd year student… Read more

The following Dartmouth / Tuck interview report was submitted to Clear Admit by an Early Action Round Applicant. Good luck to them!  The total culture is supportive. For the class visits, there will be current students to escort you, and the professor might be ask you to introduce yourself as well. The school is beautiful (but a little bit… Read more

The following Duke Fuqua interview report was submitted to Clear Admit by a Round 1 applicant. Good luck to them! The total feelings about the school and Durham are fine. I especially like the class visit, super interesting! When we were waiting for the interview, the lunch and class visits, there were some current students staying there and chatting… Read more

The following Duke Fuqua interview report was submitted to Clear Admit by a Round 1 applicant. Good luck to them! I scheduled an on-campus interview during school visit. My interviewer is a second-year student. She was very friendly and out-going and soon found common ground with me since she did an exchange year in my home country. The interview… Read more

The following Columbia MBA interview report was submitted to Clear Admit by an Early Decision applicant who was admitted. Congratulations to them! These interview reports have been very helpful and I would like to give back to the community. My ED interview was in August 2016. I was only given one interviewer to contact and the interview was conducted at… Read more

The following Dartmouth / Tuck interview report was submitted to Clear Admit by an Early Action Round Applicant.   I interviewed at Tuck two weeks before officially submitting my application. I flew to Boston from the West Coast and took the Dartmouth coach up to campus. I arrived late so I went to bed after grabbing a bite to… Read more

The following Duke / Fuqua interview report was submitted to Clear Admit by a Early Action Round applicant. Good luck to them! The interview was very conversational, much like everyone has said about it. I liked that it was with a 2nd second year student because the questions came more naturally and it was nice to get a student’s… Read more

The following Columbia MBA interview report was submitted to Clear Admit by a J-Term applicant. Good luck to them! I read through all the interview reports here and thought I’d add my experience to this list. I was invited to interview and matched with one alumni (who turned down the request). It wasn’t until I contacted the 3rd alumni… Read more

The following Duke / Fuqua interview report was submitted to Clear Admit by a Round 1 applicant. Good luck to them! I decided to interview during the open interview period and I’m glad I did. Knowing that I don’t have to wait for an invitation definitely alleviated all of the stress. I showed up on campus at 9am and… Read more

The following Duke / Fuqua interview report was submitted to Clear Admit by a Round 1 applicant. Good luck to them! The interview was with a second-year student and it was blind. She described herself as an “advocate” for me on the interview committee. The interview was very conversational. It covered the normal interview questions: Walk me through your… Read more

The following Columbia MBA interview report was submitted to Clear Admit by an Early Decision applicant. Good luck to them! Interview was exactly as described here by everyone else. We held the interview at his office in a meeting room. It started off as a normal job interview and slowly changed into a conversation. I also felt… Read more

The following INSEAD interview report was submitted to Clear Admit by a Round 2 applicant. Good luck to them! I interviewed with two alumni separately in the SF Bay Area. The first interviewer was an alumni who had graduated 8 years ago. We met in her place of work and the interview took place in a small conference room.… Read more

The following INSEAD interview report was submitted to Clear Admit by a Round 3 applicant. Good luck to them! The interviewer introduced himself quickly. Then he explained that this was going to be more of a conversation. He already had the print out of my resume and the 6 page profile. He then asked me to walk him through… Read more

The following INSEAD interview report was submitted to Clear Admit by a Round 2 applicant. Good luck to them! The interview was in an office environment with an alumnus – CEO of a sustainable energy company. The alumnus was very friendly, greeting me, offering coffee and congratulating me on making it so far. The interview questions were in general… Read more

The following INSEAD interview report was submitted to Clear Admit by a Round 2 applicant. Good luck to them! I interviewed with two alumni off-campus in Houston, TX. INSEAD alumni can ask a variety of questions as long as they have full answers to the following core questions: Why MBA? Why now? Why INSEAD Why XXX job after INSEAD?… Read more