Interview was held with the adcom who was visiting the West Coast. Was in a hotel room and lasted about 45 minutes.
Interview began with questions about my educational background. I was somewhat surprised by the level of detail sought – the interviewer asked me about educational choices made beginning from high school. This was followed by a discussion of my career. Once again he got into a lot of specifics about things I’d done.
This was followed by the Why MBA in a kind of “what do you want to do next?” fashion. He then asked me about which other schools I’d applied to and if I’d been accepted at any of them. He asked me why Yale was “in the mix” among those schools.
I then had the opportunity to ask him a few questions about Yale and the SOM.
We ended with a long discussion about some recent developments at work, and my take on some of the strategic challenges facing my industry. Overall, it was a very pleasant, conversational interview.
