Interview Questions & Reports

The following UT Austin McCombs interview questions and report were submitted to Clear Admit by a Round 1 applicant who was admitted. Congratulations to them! This was a straightforward behavioral interview with a very friendly second-year student. We spoke for ~45 minutes and including my follow-up questions. Questions asked of me included the following: Tell me about your background Why MBA? Why McCombs? Short-term and Long-term career goals? What if your long-term career goals don’t pan out? Tell me about a time you led a team and had to make an unpopular decision. How did you deal with that? Describe a Read more

The following UNC Kenan-Flagler interview questions & report were submitted to Clear Admit by a Round 3 applicant. Good luck to them! The interviewer was very kind. We started talking about Lima, Peru, he told me he recently visited Lima and enjoyed his time a lot. After a brief chat, we started talking about my resume, after that, we talked about UNC and finished with some out of the box questions. Tell me about your last two work experiences, What did you do there? Why did you change companies? If I had to go to the admissions committee right now, and tell Read more

The following UVA Darden interview questions & report were submitted to Clear Admit by a Round 1 applicant. Good luck to them! My interview was during the first week of February. I received an invite to interview on January 23rd and the only available options were the following week. Since Darden makes you fly to Charlottesville to interview if you live in the U.S., I didn’t really have an option, but to fly in. I flew in Thursday night to Charlottesville and stayed at the Inn at Darden (which I would recommend). The hotel itself is not the nicest, but it’s so Read more

The following UT Austin / McCombs interview questions and report were submitted to Clear Admit by a Round 2 applicant. Good luck to them! The interview was conducted over skype with a second-year student. The interview was relaxed and conversational. The interviewer was just provided with my resume ahead of the interview. My interviewer asked th3. e following questions: Walk me through your résumé and experience Why an MBA? Why now? Why McCombs? How would you engage with your classmates and on campus? What are you short term and long term goals? Do you have a back-up plan or other thoughts if Read more

The following UNC Kenan-Flagler interview questions & report were submitted to Clear Admit by a Round 3 applicant. Good luck to them! Was invited to interview on campus shortly following submission (outside of open interview window). Had previously received application fee waiver per GMAT score. Adcom member had scheduled 30 minute interview with me, however we ran 45-50 minutes. Mood was conversational and there were no curve balls, however she did emphasize having to ask a handful of questions in between our back and forth. They were: Tell me about yourself (i.e. walk me through your résumé). Why did you chose to Read more

The following UT Austin / McCombs interview questions and report were submitted to Clear Admit by a Round 1 applicant. Good luck to them! Interview was on campus with MAC 2nd year student volunteer. Based on our initial informal discussion, we had similar pre-MBA industries, which I am sure was not a coincidence. The interview was pretty informal/conversational, with some regular back and forth, rather than me just talking the whole time. As I was one of only a few students interviewing that day, I had a full hour. We covered the following: Walk me through you résumé. Why an MBA / Read more

The following Northwestern / Kellogg interview questions and report were submitted to Clear Admit by a Round 2 applicant. Good luck to them! The interview lasted for 30 min. The interviewer was taking notes while I was answering questions. She was not showing any expressions during the interview and the atmosphere was serious. The questions were as follows: Tell me about your career trajectory. What do your team members think about you? What do you think are some misconceptions about you in your team? What are your accomplishments? How will you contribute to Kellogg? What are your short-term, long term goals? What is Read more

The following UNC Kenan-Flagler MBA interview questions & report were submitted to Clear Admit by a Round 3 applicant. Good luck to them! The interviewer was friendly and the interview was conversational. She had my résumé with her. She had not gone through my essays. The interview lasted for 30 minutes. Following are the questions asked: From where did you undergraduate and how was your performance there? What extra-curricular activities did you participate in during your undergrad? What are your accomplishments at your company? Why MBA? and why now? What are your short term and long term goals? She asked for details Read more

The following Georgetown McDonough interview questions and report were submitted to Clear Admit by a Round 2 applicant. Good luck to them! The interview was taken by an Adcom member over Skype. It was a friendly and conversational interview. The interview was blind and she had not read my essays. It lasted for 30 min. Overall, the interviewer genuinely tried to know more about me. Here are the list of questions in that order: How do you keep yourself updated? Which publications/magazines due you follow? What is an issue/topic of particular importance to you? Tell me about something you read recently? Why do Read more

The following UNC Kenan-Flagler MBA interview questions & report were submitted to Clear Admit by a Round 2 applicant. Good luck to them! I scheduled an on-campus interview during the open season interview period. The environment was extremely relaxed for the duration of my trip – I think this was partly due to the tranquil environment of Chapel Hill. My interviewer explained that it would be a blind interview (she hadn’t seen my application) but she had marked up my résumé with questions. She asked the following: Walk me through your résumé. Why an MBA now? What are your short-term goals? Read more

The following UNC Kenan-Flagler MBA interview questions & report were submitted to Clear Admit by a Round 3 applicant. Good luck to them! Walk me through your résumé. Why did I choose my undergrad? Why an MBA? A follow up question to my MBA answer. Which factor will cause me to choose an MBA program? Questions Overall very easy. The adcom had my résumé in front of them and had circled a couple areas where they specifically intended on questioning me. Very relaxed and typical of other interviews done in that tier in my experience. Read more

The following Georgetown McDonough interview questions and report were submitted to Clear Admit by a Round 2 applicant. Good luck to them! Questions Asked: Tell me about yourself Tell me about a time you made an unpopular decision Tell about the time you worked with a global team Career goals – short and long term Why MBA now? Why Georgetown? Where else are you interviewing? My interviewer didn’t know anything about my application or even have my resume. I handed it to him right as the interview started, and he spent a few minutes reading it. The interviewer was also very focused on Read more

The following Duke / Fuqua interview questions and report were submitted to Clear Admit by a Round 1 applicant. Good luck to them! I was invited to Duke in February and just had my interview in San Francisco, CA this Saturday. This website has been so helpful to me that I wanted to provide some insight into my experience with Duke to help others with their process. I visited Duke in December, so I decided interviewing on campus wasn’t necessary. It was a BIG deal that I went to campus because most people had not. If you’re applying in round 3, or haven’t had your Read more

The following Michigan / Ross MBA interview questions & report were submitted to Clear Admit by a Round 2 applicant. Good luck to them! The interview was by second year student which was extremely nice and feel like you have a conversation with your friend rather than an interviewer. The interview starts exactly on time when he calls me via Skype. Here are the questions: Tell me about yourself. Why do you want to have an MBA? Why I want to do my shift in career? Why Ross? Tell me about a leadership experience that you had. Did you ever need to educated your Read more

The following Oxford Saïd interview questions & report was submitted to Clear Admit by a Round 3 applicant who was admitted. Congratulations to them! A pleasant conversational interview with a senior member of the admissions committee. Be prepared not only with answers to “expected” questions but also with a delightful attitude (dress formally, smile, think of questions, etc.) . Lasted for almost 25 minutes and was structured as follows: Why Oxford in general and why Said in particular? How will you add value to Said business school? What do you expect from Said business school? How did you prepare for the Read more

The following Michigan / Ross MBA interview questions & report were submitted to Clear Admit by a Round 2 applicant. Good luck to them! It was a very conversational interview and the atmosphere was relaxed. It took place in a coffee shop. The interviewer was engaging and excited to share her positive experience at Ross. She had a copy of my resume and had reviewed it beforehand. She had no knowledge of my essays so it was blind, Standard questions: Walk me through your résumé? Clarification of goals Why Ross? Why MBA? How would you contribute to the community? Standard behavioral questions like tell Read more

The following Georgetown McDonough interview questions and report were submitted to Clear Admit by a Round 2 applicant. Good luck to them! The interview was very casual and conversational. As others have said, the interviewer did not anything other than my resume which I provided. Questions/topics we covered: Walk me through your résumé Experience working on a global team. He prefaced this question by talking about Georgetown’s global focus. Asked about a time I had to persuade a group He asked about any alumni or students I have spoken with What are the main factors driving my selection of MBA programs Concluded with Read more

The following Harvard Business School / HBS interview questions and report were submitted to Clear Admit by a Round 2 applicant. Good luck to them! I interviewed with 2 members of the adcom – one who had reviewed my whole application and knew it inside out and one who had read only my résumé. They were both very nice and the interview felt pretty relaxed and conversational. They had a lot of questions, mainly about my résumé and application – they really dug in deeply on my background. Here are some of the questions: My current job: 1. Explain what your job Read more

The following Columbia MBA interview questions & report were submitted to Clear Admit by a Rolling Decision applicant. Good luck to them! Received an interview invitation approximately 1 month after my application was submitted. Interview was with an alumnus who had attended just over 10 years ago, and took place at their office in my city. The interview reports that have been submitted prior to this one were extremely helpful – my interview followed the same gist as all of the other ones you will read here: Walk me through your résumé and tell me why you want an MBA. Why Columbia, Read more

The following UPenn / Wharton interview questions and report were submitted to Clear Admit by a Round 1 applicant. Good luck to them! The Wharton TBD was a very pleasant experience. I highly recommend arriving 15-20 minutes before your interview, as the time spent in the waiting room chatting and getting to know the other applicants in the same TBD group was useful, so you can get a handle of the various personalities early on. We were then invited into the TBD room, where we sat in a circle in alphabetical order (last name). The interviewer recapped the prompt, then turned on a big Read more

The following NYU Stern interview questions and report were submitted to Clear Admit by a Round 2 MBA applicant who was admitted. Congratulations to them! I was interviewed by a member of the admissions who also happened to be a part-time MBA student at Stern. It was pretty straightforward and relatively casual. No curve balls. Questions included: Tell me about your self What are your ST/LT goals? Why MBA and why Stern? What have you done so far to prepare for your goals? What will you be doing at Stern to further prepare/achieve your goals? What will you contribute to the Stern Read more

The following Georgetown McDonough interview questions and report were submitted to Clear Admit by a Round 2 applicant. Good luck to them! The interview lasted for about 23 minutes, post which I was allowed to ask questions. Overall it was a 30 min interview. The interviewer did not have anything except my CV. Questions asked: 1.) Tell me about your current work. 2.) Tell me about a leadership experience. 3.) How do you update yourself with world affairs? What news are you following ardently right now? 4.) Tell me about a team experience when you faced a conflict Read more

The following USC Marshall MBA interview report was submitted to Clear Admit by a Round 3 applicant. Good luck to them! Overall the interview was very relaxed. I was able to interview on-campus with a member of the Adcom. The interviewer told me he had reviewed my application and had my résumé with him for the duration of the interview. He asked the following questions: 1. Walk me through your résumé. 2. How did you choose your undergraduate school? 3. Why an MBA? Why Marshall? 4. Why now? 5. How will you contribute to the Marshall community? Read more

The following Georgetown MBA interview questions and report were submitted to Clear Admit by a Round 1 applicant. Good luck to them! The interview was very conversational. We step by step walked through my résumé. The questions were as follows: Why you choose your school and about your college experience. What I do in my currently role and how I made the transition into my current role. Why an MBA? Why McDonough? There were other questions dispersed throughout the conversation that were specific to responses that I gave, but this was the general flow. After your interview, be sure to add your first-hand Read more

The following Michigan / Ross MBA interview questions & report were submitted to Clear Admit by a Round 2 applicant. Good luck to them! The individual interview was ~ 40 minutes, relaxed and conversational. Questions included the following: Tell me about yourself? Why do you want to get an MBA? What are your career goals? Describe a time when you led an organization Describe a time when you worked with a diverse team towards a common goal Describe a time when your team could not have succeeded without you Describe a time when you exceeded expectations Pretty standard behavioral stuff. There was also a Read more