I was interviewed by a T’12 student; I visited campus on Jan 25 for the campus tour and the interview. The interview was fairly straightforward and relaxed – nothing unexpected. I was admitted! Here are the questions I was asked, in no particular order:
- Walk me through your resume/Tell me about how you got to this point
- Why did you attend your undergraduate institution?
- How did you go from neuroscience (my undergrad major) to management consulting?
- A question about work style – how I approach working with people. This was a decidedly vague question, and I guess I had to do what I could with it – I talked about how I manage people by making them feel like they own a part of an assignment’s output. But I could have just as easily talked about how I deal with difficult bosses.
- My extracurricular interests, and how I got involved with them
- Why Tuck. Long/short term professional goals. Some more incisive questions about these.
- If the admissions office asked me to use three, and only three adjectives to describe you, what would they be (and why)
Be confident, and be yourself. And be visibly excited to be there.
