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Published: January 13, 2009
UNC / Kenan-Flagler MBA Admissions Interview Questions: Round 2 / Ed Davis, Admissions Committee / Phone Interview
First off, the interviewer had my resume, but nothing else from my complete application package. This way, he was blind to my GMAT scores, GPA, and essays, for better or worse. I appreciated that this prevented us from making assumptions when we spoke (I was able to use talking points brought up in my essays). The interview began with Ed introducing himself while I mentally prepared for his questions. He discussed how he and many other KF staff came from successful business careers to be a part of the program. Then, rather than the standard, “walk me through your resume,”
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Published: January 12, 2009
Stanford GSB MBA Admissions Interview Questions: Round 1 / Alumni
I met with an alumna who was very nice and personable. She interacted with me throughout the interview, giving me feedback when she liked my answers and sharing her own experiences. The first half hour was mostly her asking me questions, the last fifteen minutes was her answering my questions. I was surprised that there weren’t that many questions asked, but they were almost all ones where you had to give specific examples. Below are ALL the questions I was asked: What brought you here? (applying for business school) Why stanford? Talk about a time you encountered a problem you
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Published: January 8, 2009
Kellogg MBA Admissions Interview Questions: Round 2 / Alumnus / Off-campus
I met with an alum in his office. The questions I was asked: Walk me through your resume on how you got to where you are today. Why an MBA? How will the MBA get you to where you want to go. Share with me a team experience of yours. Share with me another team experience of yours. What will your contribution be to Kellogg? What clubs will you participate in?
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Published: January 7, 2009
Kellogg MBA Admissions Interview Questions: Round 1 / Alumnus / Off Campus
Interview took place in October 2008. He was on a tight schedule to complete the interview in one hour. This was a restriction the school had imposed. He also made lots of notes, which he said he needed to write up and send back to the school. He took the questions (or at least some instructions) out of an envelope, which made me wonder whether the school had prescribed some things to him. Walk me through your resume: focus on transitions and why you changed roles. Questions specific to me What did you learn from that (particular experience)? Your current
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Published: December 27, 2008
Kellogg MBA Admissions Interview Questions: Round 2 / Alumnus / Off Campus
In order, these were the questions I received: Tell me about a challenging situation you faced in a group / team situation How do you define leadership? Who is a good negotiator? Have you ever been in a negotiation where it wasn’t win – win, rather, win-lose or lose-lose. Describe an accomplishment you’re proud of. Why Kellogg? At Kellogg, students tend to get involved in a lot of clubs – which ones would you be interested to join? Where do you see yourself in five years? (When I said I was interested in consulting, he asked me about specific firms
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Published: December 18, 2008
Kellogg MBA Admissions Interview Questions: Round 2 / Alumni / Off Campus
I interviewed with a Kellogg alumni today. Here are the questions he asked: Why do you want to get an MBA in Chicago? Walk me through your undergraduate experience. I’ve gathered that you would like to go in to [your career], why is that? Walk me through your resume. (The interviewer stopped me intermittently to probe further about certain experiences and accomplishments.) Tell me about your leadership style. What do you find most challenging about your work? If admitted to several top schools, how would you choose between them? What do you do outside of work? The interview was VERY
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Published: December 17, 2008
Ross MBA Admissions Interview Questions: Round 1 / Alumni / Off-campus
Originally posted on rickysgmatprep.blogspot.com Hiii folks… So its done… my first b-school interview… at the prestigious Ross School of Business… If there was ever an epitome of a good interviewer or a person who did represnt truly Ross’s team-oriented, collaborative and easy going attitude..it would be my interviewer… I mean.. never once in the interview I realized that I was being interviewed.. the guy made me feel so comfortable… I really dont remember the questions he asked me because there was never really a question answer session…. but more of a conversation.. with obviously me doing more of the talking…so
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Published: December 17, 2008
Kellogg MBA Admissions Interview Questions: Round 1 / On Campus / Adcom
Original Post at rickysgmatprep.blogspot.com Well this one comes from the Chicago O’Hare airport.. I am on my way back from Evanston after my interview at Kellogg.. The best way to kill time while I wait for my flight would be to pen down my Kellogg Interview Experience.. Overall, I would not rate my interview good.. L.. not all went my way in this one.. It was an interview with adcom, on-campus… I would say the connection was just missing … For some reason, I was unable to share so many things that I would have liked to share with the
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Published: December 15, 2008
NYU / Stern MBA Admissions Interview Questions: Round 1 / On-campus / Adcom
I interviewed for NYU’s fulltime MBA program (rd 1). I met with a female adcom member and another woman from admissions sat in to listen. She took notes and made one or two comments throughout the conversation, though I tried to make eye contact with her so she felt involved. The discussion lasted 40 minutes. I thought that this would be a non-blind interview, but I did not get any questions on my application or essays. She had my resume in front of her and asked a few questions from it. As we walked into her office, she mentioned one
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Published: December 15, 2008
UVA / Darden MBA Admissions Interview Questions: Round 1 / On-campus / 2nd Year Student
Based on my own experience, and from what I heard from other applicants while I was down there, these are not difficult interviews. As other people have mentioned, the only real question that they ask you is to ‘tell us about yourself,’ and the applicant takes it from there. While I was expecting this question, and went through it a bit in my head before hand, I would recommend that folks sit down for 30 minutes and practice it. Even record it if you can and listen to yourself speak. In my case, I found that I had to track
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Published: December 15, 2008
MIT / Sloan MBA Admissions Interview Questions: Round 1 / Off-campus / Adcom
I had a somewhat different experience with my Sloan interview than I read from the wiki. I interviewed at an offsite location in my home city. My interviewer was an adcom and was very casual. Surprisingly, it was even more casual than my Yale interview which was with a student. We exchanged small talk and then the adcom explained that MIT conducts behavioral type interviews and laid out other structural guidelines our discussion would follow. I was expecting to be battered with the “tell me a time when you…” type questions, but I actually did not get any. The questions
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Published: December 15, 2008
Yale SOM MBA Admissions Interview Questions: Round 1 / On-campus / Second Year Student
I interviewed for Yale’s fulltime MBA program in rd1 right before thanksgiving. Yale’s campus looks impressive from the outside (a compound of ancient mansions and buildings that make you feel like you’re in Rome). SOM’s facilities were less than impressive on the inside. This will hopefully improve once their new facilities are constructed, but for someone entering in fall 09, it was a turnoff. My interview was with a second year student and lasted 30 minutes. I wonder if this is a strategy for their interviews, or if this guy just had a bad day, but my interviewer was very
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Published: December 15, 2008
Yale SOM MBA Admissions Interview Questions: Round 1 / On-campus / Second Year Student Admitted!!
I received an invitation for an interview about one week before Thanksgiving and went for my interview just before the Holiday. Pros- The students and staff were extremely friendly and welcoming. The tour guides were enthusiastic, and in a genuine way. The staff was very professional and accomodating– when I walked in the room they stood, shook my hand, and introduced me to everyone in the room. I can say that has never happened at any other school. Cons- For those of us hoping to enter Fall ’09 we will miss out on the new construction that is underway. There
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Published: December 15, 2008
UCLA / Anderson MBA Admissions Interview Questions: Round 1 / On-campus
Why did you choose your undergraduate position? Tell me about what you do now? Why did you choose your current position? Tell me about your leadership experiences Elaborate on your career goals. How will Anderson help you get to your career goals? What publications have you been following to stay abreast of your career goals? Do you have any questions for me?
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Published: December 10, 2008
Kellogg MBA Admissions Interview Questions: Round 1 / Phone Interview / Adcom
The interviewer told me up front the interview was blind and that all she had was my resume. It lasted 18 minutes. These were the questions she asked. Tell me about your career progress. How have you made progress or moved ahead from job to job? Given all your experience, why do you want to quit your job now and get an MBA? (I clarified that I will be returning to the same company post MBA and proceeded to answer why MBA and why Kellogg.) If things don’t work out at your current firm then what will you do? –
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Published: December 10, 2008
Harvard MBA Admissions Interview Questions: Round 1 / On campus / Adcom
30 minute interview – pretty much on the dot, as expected. Interview was in his bare-bones clean office. I felt prepared and nothing was really out of the ordinary. He started with saying that if you walk out of here feeling very bad or very good about the interview, this is still just one piece of the application puzzle. He would be watching his watch a lot and taking a lot of notes (took about 2.5-3 pages for me). For my interview: Why <X> college Challenges of going to <X> college What other options did I have a that point
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Published: December 8, 2008
Tuck MBA Admissions Interview Questions: Round 2 / Adcom / On-Campus
Tuck invites all applicants to come visit the school and interview before (or right after) you apply. I scheduled my interview for the end of the day, so that I could participate in all the events they line up for applicants before my interview. At the beginning of the day, I was paired up with a current student and went to class and lunch with him. Then, there was a campus tour, followed by a brief Q&A with an AdCom. I think it is wise to schedule your interview for the end of the day because the interviewer really wants
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Published: December 7, 2008
Duke / Fuqua MBA Admissions Interview Questions: Round 1 / Adcom / Off-campus
Originally shared by MissionMBA Had my Fuqua interview yesterday.. As I had posted earlier, the school had offered me a telephonic interview with a Delhi-based alum, but fortunately, the interviewer was interested in a face-to-face interview too.(Putting myself in his shoes, if I were to choose a candidate for my alma-mater,I too would prefer to meet him in person before I certify him to be a part of my community) The interview was scheduled at 6 in the evening at his office in Delhi. I had planned to reach at least 15-20 minutes before time, but Mr Murphy does not
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Published: December 4, 2008
Ross MBA Admissions Interview Questions: Round 1 / Alumni / Off-campus
I got out early from my place (Bangalore traffic you see…) and ended up at the interviewers office half an hour early. I wandered around the interviewer’s office for sometime and then finally decided to barge in. I apologized for being early (that would be a first) and he completely understood – “I always take Bangalore traffic into account and looks like you did too” is what he said. I waited while he wrapped up his other engagements and he called me into his office, 15 minutes before the time. [14:00] Having met before at the Ross
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Published: December 3, 2008
London Business School MBA Admissions Interview Questions: Round 1 / Alumni / Off-campus
Round 1 interview with an alum in my region, lasted a bit more than 2 hours. This was by far the most difficult interview of all the ones I have done. I was given only 1 interviewer choice, I contacted him by email and he responded a couple of days later. We set up a meeting at his office. I met with him in the morning-he had asked me to dress “smart casual.” This was not a blind interview. My interviewer knew my application really well. Also he had been selected as my interviewer because we had similar goals, although
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Published: December 3, 2008
Tuck MBA Admissions Interview Questions: Round 1 / 2nd year student /On-campus
This was a quite basic interview. We started talking on our way from the admissions office to the interview room so it set a really conversational format for the interview. Once we arrived he asked (I am formalizing the questions but again, it really sounded conversational) Walk me through your resume Why MBA and why Tuck/Goals short term and long term? What’s your experience working in teams? What are your strengths? Weaknesses? 3 months down the road in the MBA program, what will your teammates say about you? Tell me about a team failure. What will you bring to the
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Published: December 3, 2008
Wharton MBA Admissions Interview Questions: Round 1 / Alumni
The interview seemed very short to me. I was surprised that it was over, it just seemed very fast. In fact I thought that we didn’t cover a lot of the MBA interview type questions. I didn’t want be looking at my watch so I didn’t check how long it was. However, the entire session lasted 1 hour and 15 mins. We talked about general stuff, the interviewer’s experiences at Wharton, a bit about the interviewer’s background, etc. The interviewer was very nice and very friendly and it seemed to have gone well. I weaved in some more info in
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Published: December 3, 2008
Columbia MBA Admissions Interview Questions: Early Decision / Off-campus / Alum
I had my interview on 11/7/08 and was admitted on 11/24/08. Interview report: I interviewed with a 2005 alum. We met in a casual coffee shop and the format and tone of the interview was fairly informal. She asked the following questions: Walk me through your resume. Why an MBA? Why now? Why Columbia? Where else did you apply? (I had the same list she had) What will you do if you don’t get in anywhere else? Example of leading a team. Example of contributing to a team. Example of a challenging team/group situation. Describe an ethical dilemma you have
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Published: December 3, 2008
Kellogg MBA Admissions Interview Questions: Round 1 / Adcom / On-campus
Interview in Round 1, on-campus with an Admissions Officer (1 hour) The interview was in the afternoon so I had some time to take a class, talk to numerous students and have lunch with them to talk about the program-this helped significantly for the interview. The interviewer was very nice. We sat down in her office, each on a chair without a table between us. I found that really intimidating because I could not pull out my resume and have it next to me, it was really just her and me. So know your resume well enough as you might
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Published: December 3, 2008
Wharton MBA Admissions Interview Questions: Round 1 / 2nd-Year Student / On-campus
I interviewed on campus at Wharton on November 17, I also interviewed with the Associate Dean of the Health Care Management Program. Prior to going in to the interview, a couple current first year students chatted with the interviewees and answered questions about Wharton and the interview process. One student made a point to emphasize that the interview is just one data point in the application. I found the general interview to be very conversational and friendly. Some of the questions asked included: Please walk me through your resume and highlight how you ended up here Why did you choose
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