I decided to do my interview on-campus because I hadn’t had the opportunity to visit Kellogg yet. My interview was at 3:00 Friday afternoon, so I had some time in the morning/early afternoon to do some things. I sat in on Prof. Haviv’s financial decisions class, took a tour, and had lunch with some students. All of this really helped reinforce my desire to attend Kellogg. It also helped motivate me for my interview!
Anyway, I interviewed with an admissions officer and she was a great interviewer. She started out by describing the purpose of the interview and then asked me the following questions. Although I’m putting these in bullet format, the whole interview was very conversational and naturally flowed from question to question.
- Why did you choose your undergraduate university?
- Why did you choose your major?
- How were you involved outside of the classroom?
- Why did you take your current job?
- How big is your company?
- What does your company specialize in? (She asked me very specific questions about my company that I could have never prepared for)
- What is your greatest accomplishment at your current company?
- What are your short and long term business goals?
- How can Kellogg help you achieve these goals?
- Why do you want to attend Kellogg?
- What do you do outside of work?
- Do you have any questions to ask me?
I know this seems like a laundry list of questions, but the interview just seemed to flow very well. For any of you that haven’t interviewed yet, I’d definitely recommend doing your interview at Kellogg. It seems like the alumni interviews can be a lot harder than the on-campus interviews.
Best of Luck!
