My interview was the last interview of the day on a very busy Friday. So it started a bit late. The interviewer surprised me with very detailed questions about the class I had attended earlier in the day. It was an interesting class, so fortunately I had paid attention. There was the usual why Kellogg, why MBA question. But there were no tough behavioral questions. I work in the wireless industry and we spent a lot of time talking about how wireless works. She was also very interested in knowing about India (my home country). After a while it didn’t feel like an interview at all. It felt more like a casual coffee house conversation. I don’t know whether thats good or bad. The low point of the interview for me was when she asked how my expected long-term business venture (I am targetting entrepreneurship) would make money. I went off on a tangent instead of giving a focussed answer. I came out of the interview feeling pretty good as I felt that we had connected on some level. But now that decisions are coming out my paranoid self can only think about what all I could have done better.
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MBA Livewire
January 2, 2026 10:16pm ET
Applied
to
UPenn / Wharton
Round:
Round 2
Received via
portal
Standardized Test:
GRE
GPA:
3.54
GRE:
332
Program Type:
Traditional Two-Year
Target Career:
Finance
Application Location:
United States, San Francisco
January 2, 2026 10:00pm ET
Applied
to
Harvard Business School
Round:
Round 2
Received via
portal
Standardized Test:
GRE
GPA:
3.54
GRE:
332
Program Type:
Traditional Two-Year
Target Career:
Finance
Application Location:
United States, San Francisco
January 2, 2026 9:59pm ET
Applied
to
Columbia
Round:
Round 2
Received via
portal
Standardized Test:
GRE
GPA:
3.54
GRE:
332
Program Type:
Traditional Two-Year
January 2, 2026 4:53pm ET
Rejected
at
UVA / Darden
Round:
Round 1
Received via
portal
on
December 09, 2025
Standardized Test:
GRE
GPA:
4.17
GRE:
334
Program Type:
Traditional Two-Year
Post MBA Career:
Consulting
Target Career:
Finance
Application Location:
Nigeria, Lagos
Note:
I was surprised at this decision, at the same time not very surprised as the interview didn’t go that well for me and I feel that was what possibly drove the decision, the interviewer (2Y MBA Student) was quite out of touch with my pre MBA career field and struggled to understand my response to the interview questions, she had to draw me back a couple of times to understand what I was speaking about, so I can imagine how she was able to make a case for me when she was struggling to understand me.
January 2, 2026 4:01pm ET
Waitlisted
at
Duke / Fuqua
Round:
Round 1
Received via
portal
on
December 10, 2025
Standardized Test:
GRE
GPA:
4.17
GRE:
334
Program Type:
Traditional Two-Year
Target Career:
Finance
Application Location:
Nigeria, Lagos