Originally shared by DreamChaser
I selected to do the interview on campus during the Kellogg Preview Weekend (which btw, is an awesome event that you should check out, see my post on KPW). I wasn’t sure if I was gonna interview with a student or an Adcom. But it looks like on Saturday you interview with student (I am not 100% sure about whether you always interview with Adcom during the week days though). I ended up in one female Adcom’s office for the interview. She was very friendly and that relaxed me a little bit because I was quite nervous since Kellogg was my first interview. The interview started off with the most standard question about walking through the resume. I went a little far into explaining why MBA, and my interviewer actually smiled at the end of it and told me there was specific question for that later (I thank her for not interrupting me while I went off for that would have throw me off a little). All the questions were pretty standard Kellogg questions, even the leadership style one I have seen on accept.com interview reports. The interview lasted about 30 minutes and the interviewer left enough time for me to ask questions. Overall, the interview was like a relaxed conversation with the interviewer occasionally probing on points of interests. Because of my profile and my answers, the interview end up focusing a lot on leadership and team work, which allowed me to fully showcase my strengths. I felt that the Adcom is very experienced and asks lots of follow up questions. She also kept writing notes the entire time but kept good eye contact in between and had lots of positive confirmation through body language (nodding, smiling, ect.) Overall, I thought I did quite well and the admission later confirmed that.
My 2cents for interview rep: read interview reports from accept.com and clearadmit, prepare those questions, and prepare all of them. I always think it’s good to over prepare than under prepare. Just make sure your answers don’t sound rehearsed. Know your story, of course, but also know your strengths, and try to showcase as much as of it during the interview. And lastly, stay relaxed, don’t get throw off by odd questions, just be confident and be your best self. Good luck!
Here is the list of interview questions that I remember:
- Walk through your resume starting from undergrad experience?
- What is your biggest accomplishment at work?
- Leadership experience at work?
- Follow up question on my leadership experience such as my specific actions and leadership style.
- How has your leadership style progressed since college (through work and a specific extra-curricular activity)?
- What role do you play on a team?
- Tell me about xxx (a specific extracurricular activity on my resume).
- Why MBA?
- Why Kellogg?
- What unique contribution can you bring to Kellogg?
- What clubs do you plan to participate in while at Kellogg?
- What do you do for fun?
- Anything you want to say that we haven’t talked about?
