Interview Questions & Reports Chicago Booth

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Published: February 12, 2026

Chicago Booth MBA Interview Questions & Report: Round 1 / Second-Year Student / Zoom

The interview was pretty long. It started with basic tell me about yourself and then proceeded with ‘tell me about a time’ kind of questions. Few of the questions were as follows: TMAT when you had constructive feedback. TMAT strengths. TMAT leadership and leadership style. TMAT conflict resolution. TMAT you lifted a team. How would your colleagues define you? Weaknesses? Why Booth? Contributions? Goals? My questions were mostly standard, but they were phrased in a complex way and were back-to-back. Very little on resume. The interview was quite long and it was just not ending. The interviewer was quite introverted Read more

Published: January 22, 2026

Chicago Booth MBA Interview Questions & Report: Round 1 / Alumnus / Zoom

Completely different than the other interviews I did. Interviewer only asked two questions: Why an MBA and why Booth? The rest of the hour-long interview was just a normal conversation where we chatted about his experience at Booth, his current work, and any questions I had about the program. Ended up getting waitlisted. Read more

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Published: February 24, 2025

Chicago Booth MBA Interview Questions & Report: Round 2 / Alumnus / Virtual

Very conversational discussion with an alumni. Skipped resume walkthrough and built in a lot more time for the interpersonal questions. Make sure to prep for as many of those as you can. Questions were: Why MBA? Why now? Why Booth? What do you want to get involved with and how do you want to contribute at Booth? Tell me about a time you faced a challenge working in a team. Tell me about a time you had to ask for help. Also tell me about a time you had to help someone else at work. Tell me about areas of Read more

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February 16, 2026 5:57pm ET

Interview Invite to Northwestern / Kellogg

Round: Round 2

Received via email February 16, 2026

Standardized Test: GRE

GPA: 3.4

GRE: 319

Program Type: Traditional Two-Year

Application Location: New York, NY

February 16, 2026 2:59pm ET

Interview Invite to Columbia Business School

Round: Round 2

Received via email February 16, 2026

Standardized Test: GRE

GRE: 336

Program Type: Traditional Two-Year

Post MBA Career: Consulting

Application Location: China

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Dont give up, my first R2 interview invite.

February 16, 2026 2:45pm ET

Interview Invite to Northwestern / Kellogg

Round: Round 2

Received via email on February 11, 2026

Standardized Test: GRE

GPA: 3.75

GRE: 335

Program Type: Traditional Two-Year

Post MBA Career: Healthcare

Application Location: NY

February 16, 2026 2:37pm ET

Interview Invite to Columbia Business School

Round: Round 2

Received via portal February 16, 2026

Standardized Test: GMAT

GPA: 1st honor

GMAT: 615

Program Type: Traditional Two-Year

Post MBA Career: Finance, Investment Banking

Target Career: Finance

Application Location: United States, New York

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received interview invite td at 2pm! so happy! dont give up hope!
CFA + columbia MA

February 16, 2026 1:39pm ET

Interview Invite to INSEAD

Round: Round 3

Received via email February 16, 2026

Standardized Test: GRE

GPA: 3.8

GRE: 318

Program Type: Traditional Two-Year

Application Location: USA

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