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Columbia MBA Admissions Interview Questions: Regular Decision / Alum / Off-Campus
Dates – Submitted 1/4/11, Interview Invite 2/17, Interview Date 3/3, Report Completed 3/4, Accepted 3/21 My interview lasted an hour and 15 minutes and it felt like about 30 minutes. It was held in his off campus work headquarters (a really neat building) and it began with him giving me a great tour and buying me a cup of coffee. After settling into his lounge he began the semi-formal interview. We both knew the gravity of our talk and he definitely played the interviewer but he was very up front about his goal of just getting to know me. In
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Kellogg MBA Admissions Interview Questions: Round 3 / Off-Campus / Alum
Interview was conducted with 2008 alumni in cafe and lasted approximately 50 minutes. Interviewer only had a copy of my resume, and interview flowed much like a conversation. Topics were: Tell me about yourself Walk me through your resume What has been challenging about your job What are your future ambitions Why MBA at this point in your career Where do you see yourself after Kellogg Why Kellogg What clubs are you interested in (I had mentioned all of Kellogg’s student activities) What areas of study do you want to focus on Questions for interview about Kellogg Interview was friendly
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Harvard MBA Admissions Interview Questions: Round 3 / Adcom / Skype
Received interview invite about 7-10 days after application was submitted. I feel this is evidence Harvard looks to fill a class profile. Interview was conducted via Skype with Adcom who had reviewed my entire application. Interviewer made an emphasis to create a relaxed environment by being extra friendly and kept the interview as conversational as possible. She specifically stated the purpose of the interview was to get to know who I am which was a relief to me after preparing for a stress interview. Looking back this was definitely an interview tactic – do NOT fall into the trap of
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Yale SOM MBA Admissions Interview Questions: Round 3 / Adcom / Skype
Received last minute interview invite – 8 days before decision deadline. Interview was conducted via Skype with Adcom who confirmed she had only reviewed my resume and lasted 25 minutes with 5 minutes for questions – this was spelled out in the introduction. Topics were: How did you end up choosing your major How did you end up in your current job (how military job/location selection works) Explain what you do in your job (this was a detail oriented discussion with many follow up questions) What is an average day like for you What are you future goals Why MBA
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UVA / Darden MBA Admissions Interview Questions: Round 1 / Adcom / On-Campus
I was a first round applicant for the class of 2013. I’m from the midwest, four years of consulting experience, and interested in general management. I was invited to on campus interview. There were other students that were interviewed my 2nd-year students, but for some reason….I was interviewed by an adcom. She was great, very nice and respectful. Standard Questions: Tell me about you Why’d you choose your undergrad Tell me about an experience where you had to lead and team and make a difficult decision What was a major accomplishment in your life Why Darden Plans Post-MBA Do you
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NYU / Stern EMBA Admissions Interview Questions: Round 2 / On-Campus
So my story was a little bit different, I’m applying for an executive MBA program. Since it was really hard to find questions for these interviews I hope me sharing it here will help other candidates. I was greeted and offered water, then she explained the interview outline, her asking me some questions and then review the materials she prepared, followed by me asking questions. Here are some of the questions I was asked: Tell me a little bit about yourself and walk me through your resume Why MBA? Why Stern? Tell me more about your experience in the army
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INSEAD MBA Admissions Interview Questions: Round 2 / 1st and 2nd interviews / Alumni / Off-Campus
Scheduling the interview I received my notification that I had been selected to interview in early January, about 5 weeks after the Round 2 deadline. A few days later I received an email with my interviewers’ names and contact information. I sent them each an email with my availability in the next month. I proposed dates starting a week later to give myself at least a week to prepare for my first interview since this was my first business school interview. I proposed quite a few dates on Fridays and the weekend since I am only in town Friday-Sunday. After
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INSEAD MBA Admissions Interview Questions: Round 3 / Alum / Off-Campus
I am an applicant based in Bangalore/India. I interviewed with an alumni in person in Bangalore. The interview schedule was decided by mutual consensus between me and the alumni. We decided to meet after postponing it once. The interviewer was very nice and co-operative. I wore formals for the interview and reached his office in time. 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 my resume. While I
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Published: April 26, 2011
Georgetown / McDonough MBA Admissions Interview Questions: Round 3 / On-campus / First-year Student
I was invited to interview for R3. Since I was going to be taking a day off to go to Washington D.C., I opted to sit in on a finance class. The student assigned to me was very helpful in giving me her insights on why she chose Georgetown over her other choices. My interview was with a first year student. Because Georgetown shares the interviewer’s name in advance, I was able to look him up and get insight on the student clubs he was involved in on campus. Interview lasted about 40 minutes. Here are details: Blind interview (I
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Published: April 21, 2011
Georgetown / McDonough MBA Admissions Interview Questions: Adcom / Off-Campus
I interviewed with an Admissions Director and she was very cordial and friendly. We met off-campus in a Chicago hotel. The interview was for 30 minutes. I arrived few minutes early and she came out to greet me. We sat in the lobby in plush comfy chairs. It was difficult to hold my resume book in front and talk, but I adjusted and soon became comfortable. She asked me: What do you want to do after an MBA? Tell me about your career path. Why now? Why Georgetown? Have you visited Georgetown? If you had to do off campus recruiting,
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Published: April 14, 2011
London Business School MBA Admissions Interview Questions: Round 2 / Alum / Off-campus
My interview was at the office of my interviewer after work. We met at 6.30pm and didn’t get out until just after 9pm (I certainly wasn’t expecting such a long interview, but it seemed to go well). He wasn’t from the same background as me, nor was he in the industry that I want to go into. I got the impression that he had only briefly skimmed my CV, so we started off by talking through that. Following on from that were fairly typical questions: why do you want to do an MBA? what is your career vision? what is
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Published: April 13, 2011
Oxford / Saïd MBA Admissions Interview Questions: Adcom / On-Campus
I flew in to London and arrived Oxford via train on the 18th of February 2011. Questions: Why do you want to get an MBA? Why Oxford? What would you bring to the class? Discussion about football (mentioned favorite team on resume) I see you want to work in a private equity firm focused on emerging markets…..Well, to be honest, they don’t exactly come banging on my door asking for MBA’s how do you intend to secure a job like this? Can you name five of such companies? Any questions for me? The interview lasted 30 minutes. Got an admit
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Published: April 11, 2011
London Business School MBA Admissions Interview Questions: Round 2 / Alum / Off-Campus
My interview was scheduled for 6 PM at the interviewer’s office. Although the interview was scheduled for an hour, it lasted almost 2 hours. Not a negative sign, though, as the interview was somehow conversational. My interviewer was not from a different industry, but he had after school the kind of experience I´m looking for (financial background with operational experience). The best advice I received before the interview was that despite specific questions being made, I should leave my main messages clear. Questions: What qualities make a leader a good leader? What do you need to work on in order
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Published: April 11, 2011
NYU / Stern MBA Admissions Interview Questions: Round 2 / On-Campus / Adcom
I was greeted with a packet of program information based on my career preference, and they also gave me a Stern t-shirt, like others mentioned earlier. After some initial chitchat of how I got to the city, we went straight to the interview: She started by asking how I developed the hobby I mentioned in my third essay. My career progression / roles in my job. Describe/justify my career goal. What to do if I could not get the summer internship I wanted. How would my friends describe myself? Describe a challenging client situation. How would I decide which MBA
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Published: April 11, 2011
Duke / Fuqua MBA Admissions Interview Questions: Round 2 / On-Campus / 2nd-Year student
I had my interview with a 2nd year on campus doing one of their recruitment weekends. Most of the other students interviewed had 2nd years as well and I had been told that the interview was very laid back and a lot like a conversation. I did not feel that way. I will say that after the interviews, a lot of other prospectives felt like theirs was very laid back but this was not the case for my interview. He seemed to just go down a list of questions and wrote down my answers. All of the questions except for
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UVA / Darden MBA Admissions Interview Questions: Round 2 / On campus / Second-year student
I interviewed on campus with a second year. He started off saying that the admissions committee was already impressed which is why I was called in for an interview and that this was a blind interview. He then told me that I had about 30 min to tell my story and to start whenever I wanted. I briefly touched upon my childhood and my college experience and then focused on my career choices and extracurriculars. There was then about 15 min for him to ask follow up questions. ex. why Darden and why MBA. I thought there would have been
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UVA / Darden MBA Admissions Interview Questions: Round 1 / Adcom / Skype
I am an applicant based in Bangalore/India. I had an interview with an Adcom member over Skype. I wore formals for the interview, tested my Skype set up for video chat and ensured a good view of my room. Please be prepared for a video chat. The interviewer in fact, insisted on having one even when the Internet connection became a bit bad. My advice for all those who are attending an interview over Skype is that please reserve a video-conferencing facility for the interview if possible. My interviewer got stuck up in traffic and informed about the delay. Finally,
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MIT / Sloan MBA Admissions Interview Questions: R2 / Admissions staff interviewer / On-campus
Apply 1/4/11, Invite 3/17, Interview 3/29, Accepted 4/4! After a two and a half month excruciating wait I got a call from MIT asking me to interview. In fact, she made is sound like I had already been invited (email or something) and that I hadn’t responded (she was “hoping I was still interested in applying”). I’m in the DC area and I found out the only available dates were at an interview fair the next week where I’d be one of a lot of people interviewing or I could interview on the 29th, the final day of interviews for
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Yale SOM MBA Admissions Interview Questions: Round 2 / Adcom / Skype
Pretty straight forward questions (info not present in the application) but not the most typical ones, so it was not completely a blind interview. List of interview questions: Tell me what did you do for fun in high school Why did you choose your undergraduate university What was your master thesis about? Why did you choose your first job and why did you leave What 3 words would your boss say if he was asked to qualify you Why YALE SOM Questions for me At the beginning the interviewer told me that it was going to take only 25 minutes,
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Published: March 31, 2011
Kellogg MBA Admissions Interview Questions: Adcom / On Campus
I interviewed with a member of the admissions committee, and although I was only allotted 30 minutes, it ended up to be almost an hour and a half. I know everyone is looking for the type of questions, which is really important in preparation, but the most important factors are really knowing your resume, motivations, why Kellogg, what about Kellogg, and being yourself. The interview started with the basic questions: walk me through your resume what are your short term and long term goals. Before my interview, I really spent a lot of time studying Kellogg and knowing the programs
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Published: March 29, 2011
Harvard MBA Admissions Interview Questions: Round 2 / Adcom / On Campus
From start to finish the application process was grueling.. but all worth it because I received the admit! Throughout the interview my interviewer was very friendly. We started off with small talk about getting up to HBS. She briefly introduced herself, and then explained that we would have a half hour and likely not have enough time for questions. There was lots of follow-up questions/discussions based on how I answered initial questions, and a number of questions specifically tailored to my individual background. How did you end up at your company? General question about the company structure Specific question tailored
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Published: March 29, 2011
USC / Marshall MBA Admissions Interview Questions: Round 2 / On-Campus / Second-year student
I interviewed on campus with a second year student during one of the Saturday interview rounds for R2. Interviewer seemed to only have my resume and hadn’t read other aspects of my application. Tell me about yourself? Hobbies/Interesting Activities? Why MBA & why USC? Tell me about how your prioritize your work? Talk about a leadership experience? Tell me about a weakness? Interview was fairly conversational, although the interviewer kept a good poker face on the whole time. Result: Admitted.
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Published: March 29, 2011
MIT / Sloan MBA Admissions Interview Questions: Round 2 / Adcom / On-Campus
I interviewed last week on-campus with admissions staff. I had somewhat of an informal pre-interview with an administrative assistant at the front desk since I was 20 minutes early and we discussed a few topics related to my industry, media and entertainment, such as net neutrality and privacy concerns with online advertising. My official interview wasn’t very structured, it was very conversational. I was not asked any behavioral questions instead I was asked why I wanted to attend Sloan, why an MBA, why now and what were my hobbies. I am an entrepreneur so I was asked about my business
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Published: March 29, 2011
UCLA / Anderson MBA Admissions Interview Questions: Round 2 / Second-year Student / On-Campus
Arrived on campus for the first interview slot of the day (8:15 am) The door for the admissions office was still locked around 8:05 so I knocked persistently until adcom staff opened the door and let me in. After a 10 minute wait, a second year student introduced himself and led me to a conference room in the suite. Interview began with a casual introduction of the interviewer’s background, career focus, etc. Following that we immediately jumped into my resume. About halfway down the page, the questions naturally shifted towards career goals, how Anderson will help fulfill them, what leadership
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