We both showed up early, so although he’d only allotted 45 minutes, the interview lasted about an hour before he had to catch his train.
He didn’t have a list of questions and didn’t take any notes. He asked me questions based off of my previous answers and didn’t appear to have any checklist that he was trying to get through. We walked through my resume, my reasons for wanting an MBA at this point, and what I think makes a school the right fit for me. He asked some questions about the Economist, which I was reading when he came in (related to my favorite sections and my opinion on the new section on China and the feature this week on state capitalism). We talked for a while about my decision to go to the University of Chicago and my experience there, since he went to Northwestern undergrad. He talked a fair bit about the differences between several of the top business schools and why Kellogg was a good fit for him. He did not ask anything related to extracurriculars or leadership at all, and I got none of the situational questions that other people reported.
