I interviewed on-campus February 5, 2012 with a member of the adcom. Along with the adcom member was a 2nd year student who was training to learn the interview process. The interview lasted about 45 minutes. The interviewer said that it was blind, but mentioned that she had “reviewed notes about my application” from the people who had read it previously.
The interview wasn’t more or less formal than interviews at other schools, but the overall atmosphere was very different. In previous interviews I was allowed to craft my own story via the guidance and direction of the interviewer’s questions but at Johnson the prompts were very direct and many sub-questions came out of each of the general ones (below).
Questions:
- Walk me through your resume.
- What did you achieve at [penultimate job]? How?
- What have you done to change the organization where you currently work? How?
- Name and explain one difficult professional decision you were forced to make.
- Why Johnson?
- How do you plan on being involved in Johnson?
- What other schools have you applied to?
- What are your short term post-MBA plans?
- How have you prepared yourself for such an industry? (I’m a career changer)
Then she provided me a few minutes for questions, which I addressed to both her and the 2nd year student. It was beneficial to receive two perspectives on the same question.
