My interview took place on campus on 12/12/07. I interviewed with a 2nd year student. The tone of the conversation was friendly/casual though obviously substantive. The feel of the interview was very much “let’s get to know each other better” and not at all a hard-core grilling.
The questions I was asked were very similar to what other people have reported here:
- Walk me through your resume
- Why MBA?
- Why Yale?
- Tell me about [a certain extracurricular activity on my resume]
- How would you contribute to Yale?
- Any questions?
The interview lasted around 30 minutes. Here’s my advice for prepping for the interview:
- Make sure you can go through each item on your resume and clearly explain what you did, why you decided to take that particular job, and what you got out of it. In the “walk me through your resume” part of the interview, the interviewer started by asking why I took the particular job that I took coming out of college, and then we went through in depth each job I’ve had in my six years of work experience.
- Provide compelling reasons for why you want to get an MBA, what you want to do with it, and why Yale–since you’ve already thought this through for your application essays, coming up with the content here should be pretty straightforward.
- Make sure you have questions to ask of the interviewer. Given that I was meeting with a current student, I asked her how she chose Yale, what her academic experience has been like, what her experience has been like with extracurriculars, etc.
Good luck to everybody!
