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Published: November 20, 2022
Cornell Johnson Interview Questions & Report: Round 1 / Adcom / Zoom
The interview process was pretty standard. The interviewer seems to have my resume and a brief summary of my application (not the entire application). Typical questions and the atmosphere was friendly and casual. Interviewer questions include: Tell me about yourself. Why did you choose your industry? How did you get your motivation? What’s your career goal? How can an MBA help you achieve your goals? Why Cornell Johnson? What steps will you take to achieve your goals and what is your plan B if it doesn’t work? Tell me about a time when you led a team and what’s your Read more
Published: November 20, 2022
Michigan Ross Interview Questions & Report: Round 1 / Alumnus / Zoom
Interview was on Zoom with an alumnus based in Chicago working in tech and a former MBB consultant. The vibe was relaxed, although the interviewer was a little ranty, telling me why consulting work-life balance sucked and why he’s glad he got out. The first question was an icebreaker – what did you have for breakfast. Then we got into the substantive questions. Surprisingly, the interviewer did not ask me to tell him about myself or walk through resume. Instead, the first question(s) were: Why MBA? Why Ross? Why now? Then, we dove into behavioral questions, which included: Tell me Read more
Published: November 20, 2022
Stanford GSB Interview Questions & Report: Round 1 / Alumnus / Zoom
They seem to match interviewer based on region and industry. My interviewer has similar background with me and knows a lot about my industry. The interview is largely resume-based (the interviewer only has my resume). Interview questions include: Tell me about yourself. More details about the projects you were involved? How do you think about xx industry? Why did you make the career move? What was your thinking process? What’s your long-term career goal? What are your extracurricular involvements? Why MBA? Why Stanford? Any questions for me? I think the questions are pretty standard and the interview is quite friendly. Read more
Published: November 20, 2022
Wharton MBA Interview Questions & Report: Round 1 / Second-Year Student / Zoom
Date of interview: Nov 9 Interview atmosphere: Second-years are casual and friendly. Among the group, there is definitely an effort to be friendly and supportive. However, there is always a hint of competition as expected. Type of interview: Team-based interview followed by a 10-min chat with second years Interview question: Why MBA and why is Wharton the ideal place to do the MBA? Commentary: Team-based discussion went pretty well with robust time management. Everyone had a chance to speak up, but you could see some individuals getting annoyed/upset that their choice of country was not picked. Read more
Published: November 20, 2022
Wharton MBA Interview Questions & Report: Round 1 / Second-Year Student / Zoom
The interview took place on Zoom with two second-year students. They let us into the room about 10 minutes before the TBD was scheduled to start. There were 6 prospective students participating. We were all American. I actually knew one of the other interviewees, but neither of us let on to the rest of the group that we knew each other. We spent this time with getting to know each other. After 10 minutes, the two second-year students gave us instructions and read us the prompt. Then, they had all of us go around and introduce ourselves with our name, Read more
Published: November 15, 2022
Michigan Ross Interview Questions & Report: Round 1 / Alumnus / Zoom
I had my interview with a 2019 alum. He was in fact very responsive and quick in setting up time. We scheduled an hour, but when we started he said we will do 30-40 mins of Q/A and then questions for him: 1. Started with tell me about yourself and overview of resume. 2. Short-term and long term goals? 3. Why MBA? 4. Why Ross? why now? Then we jumped to behavioural questions: 5. Time when you didn’t know anything in project and still went ahead. 6. Time when some colleague disagreed. 7. Time when Read more
Published: November 15, 2022
Cornell Johnson Interview Questions & Report: Round 1 / Second-Year Student / Zoom
List of interview questions 1. Walk me through your resume. (I was cut off after a very short amount of time. I only got to mention my undergrad and one of my three jobs) 2. Why an MBA? Why now? 3. What attracts you to Johnson? 4. Do you feel you will be at a disadvantage going into consulting (I’m not sure why they thought this. It’s not my plan. The interview seemed very robotic and all questions were pre-planned rather than questions to learn more about me or expand on what I had said earlier.) Read more
Published: November 13, 2022
Berkeley Haas Interview Questions & Report: Round 1 / Second-Year Student / Virtual
Interviewed with a second year, was conversational and the interviewer was very friendly and willing to share own experiences. Started with a brief about the procedure and how the interview will go on and then intro about self. Then the questions were as follows – – Intro – Why MBA? Why Haas? – in same question – Time you took a risk in professional setting. – Time you convinced someone to do something out of their job description. – Anything else you wanted to discuss? – Any Questions? Went on for about 35 Read more
Published: November 13, 2022
Chicago Booth Interview Questions & Report: Round 1 / Alumnus / Zoom
I had a lot of help from Clear Admit, so I thought I might pay it forward. Very nice interviewer. He started by introducing himself. What year he graduated. What he does at his current job. Questions were: – Walk me through your resume. – (Then he stopped me and asked – Who is the biggest player in the industry?) – Tell me more about the AI project you did. – Why MBA? – Why now? – Where did they do their MBA? – What’s your short-term and long-term goal? – Read more
Published: November 13, 2022
Chicago Booth Interview Questions & Report: Round 1 / Second-Year Student / Zoom
It was one of the most difficult interviews I had. The second-year student had 3-4 follow up questions for each of my stories, which really made me think in-depth. It didn’t go well for me. 1. Walk me through your story. – why you made the decisions on some instances. 2. Tell me a time when you had to face challenge. – How did you manage the situation? – What was the result? – What would you have done differently? 3. A situation when you made a decision, but then you thought you could Read more
Published: November 9, 2022
Wharton Interview Questions & Report: Round 1 / Second-Year Student / Zoom
The interview was really straightforward: “I want you to tell my why MBA and Why Wharton.” The student listened to me, not saying a word and asked in the remaining 1’30” if I had any questions. Not much of an interaction. Read more
Published: November 8, 2022
Chicago Booth Interview Questions & Report: Round 1 / Second-Year Student / Skype
The interviewer was a second-year student who did not belong to my target industry. She seemed welcoming and friendly, and made the interview conversational. It lasted about 45 mins in total. It started with her congratulating me on getting to this step and introducing themselves. Questions asked: Walk me through your resume. Why MBA? Why now? ST/LT goals? Tell me about a time you led a team and what your experience was? Tell me about a time you tried to incorporate an external source of inspiration into an actual team project? What 3 words Read more
Published: November 8, 2022
Chicago Booth Interview Questions & Report: Round 1 / Alum / Off-Campus
Pretty informal interview, was 30 minutes long including my questions, was asked the following: -Tell me about yourself. -Why MBA? Why now? -Why Booth? And what specific things are offered for your concentration? -Short-term and Long-term goals? How will you reach them? -How do you plan to recruit for your targeted industry post-MBA? -Any questions for me? I had prepared for behavioral questions, but wasn’t asked any which was surprising. Good luck to everyone! Read more
Published: November 7, 2022
Chicago Booth Interview Questions & Report: Round 1 / Second-Year Student / Virtual
The overall interview was quite conversational. The interviewer ensured on keeping it quite casual throughout. The questions asked were very similar to standard ones; however, in terms of categories, the first was related to your background and purpose, the second was pertaining to behavioral questions and examples, and the third was pertaining to some questions that the candidate has pertaining to Booth and more about Booth. List of questions: Walk me through your resume. Clarity on job switches. Why MBA and Why Now? Tell me about a time when you had to accommodate a divergent opinion from a team or Read more
Published: November 7, 2022
HBS Interview Questions & Report: Round 1 / Adcom / Zoom
I was interviewed by an Adcom member at HBS. The Adcom member was very warm and welcoming and started off by warning me about some internet connectivity issues they were having. The interview went mostly smoothly with a few spikes in the internet so we had to turn off the video feed for a minute towards the end. The questions were very specific to my application, but here are some questions from the interview: 1. Explain what your company does and the technology (I work at a life science start up). 2. Follow up on the technology. 3. Read more
Published: November 7, 2022
Chicago Booth Interview Questions & Report: Round 1 / Second-Year Student / On-Campus
Walk me through your resume with lots of specific follow-up questions on my responsibilities. Why do you want the MBA and why Booth? What is your backup plan if your first-choice industry isn’t hiring? Why don’t you want to go back to your pre-MBA industry? Read more
Published: November 7, 2022
Chicago Booth Interview Questions & Report: Round 1 / Alumnus / Zoom
The interview was with an alumnus, but he was from a different industry than I am. It was an hour long conversation. And honestly one of the most conversational interviews. It started off with him introducing himself, his career trajectory before and after Booth. Then he asked me: 1. About myself (here we connected on our personal stories) 2. My goals (long term & short term) 3. Why MBA? Why now? 4. Ideal team? What role would I see myself playing? (He mentioned Booth’s culture around teams) 5. My leadership experiences 6. A time I Read more
Published: November 7, 2022
HBS Interview Questions & Report: Round 1 / Adcom / Zoom
The interview was conversational, with a member of the admissions committee who had read my entire application and was eager to know about the motivations behind my life’s transitions (primarily professional) and about my industry of work. It was a 30min interview, which maybe went ~1-2min over the mark. The questions she asked were specific to my resume, application and profile: 1. She asked about a social impact organization I was part of at college and what we did there 2. We spoke about the improvement in gender ratio in IITs (Indian Institutes of Technology – premier institutes Read more
Published: November 7, 2022
LBS Interview Questions & Report: Round 1 / Alumnus / Zoom
Interviewer was very friendly and asked a bunch of questions around my work experiences, how I handled conflicts/issues in the workplace, international experience and the standard Why LBS/Why MBA/Why now. There is a presentation portion, which I also found to be straightforward. I was given a topic that was relevant to my industry (tech) and asked to present on it. It really didn’t require any prep and I actually enjoyed this part of the interview. I was asked follow-up questions on my answer. Spent the last 10-15 minutes talking about my interviewer’s experience at LBS. Read more
Published: November 7, 2022
Stanford GSB Interview Questions & Report: Round 1 / Alumna / Zoom
It seems like they run a pretty personal interview-matching process, where I got matched to an alumna who was female, was in the same pre-MBA industry (banking), and currently works in my target post-MBA industry (media). Interviewer only had my CV. Overall very relaxed, was more of a conversation rather than interview. Started quite naturally given the parallels between our experiences: on my background, why I decided to go into banking, why I want to go into media, why MBA. More structured questions included: – Tell me about a time when you put forward an initiative that aimed to Read more
Published: November 7, 2022
HBS Interview Questions & Report: Round 1 / Adcom / On-Campus
The interviewer had no time to spare, and she jumped right into asking me about a failure that I wrote about in my essay. Her questions made it clear that she was well-informed on my entire application, but she had my resume pulled up for reference and asked me specific questions about lines from my resume. At one point I was surprised that she mentioned a very personal detail about herself, and there were also some spontaneous questions as I revealed some jobs I worked during college, which had not been on the resume. The questions were much more broad Read more
Published: November 6, 2022
Chicago Booth Interview Questions & Report: Round 1 / Alumnus / Off-Campus
Interviewed with an alumnus who only had access to my résumé. It was a very conversational atmosphere where I felt my interviewer was really trying to get to know me and not just go through / over questions. He started by sharing his experience at school and his current job. Questions: 1. Tell me about yourself / walk-me through your resume. 2. Post-MBA goals? 3. Why an MBA? 4. Why Booth? 5. We went over 3-4 behavioral questions related to the accomplishments and projects I described on the first question. At the end we had Read more
Published: November 6, 2022
Stanford GSB Interview Questions & Report: Round 1 / Alum / Zoom
Got an interview invite last week of Oct asking me to schedule it with the alum they paired me with within 7-10 days. Had to follow up with the alum a couple of times to lock down a time and get the Zoom invite. Interview itself was 50 min, with 15 min of that being me asking questions. The interview questions were behavioral, went through maybe 4-5 behavioral questions. After my initial answer for each question there were several follow-ups that were clearly aimed at getting to more of the “EQ” of the story – what was the reaction, was Read more
Published: November 6, 2022
HBS Interview Questions & Report: Round 1 / Adcom / On-Campus
Had one interviewer and an observer. Interview was very fast-paced — there were maybe 20 questions that touched on every aspect of my work experience, 2 questions on my ECs that were very general, and 2 questions on my interests included on my resume. Observer did not ask questions, but verbally reacted throughout the interview, and I found myself recapping things the interviewer already knew from my app because I wanted the observer to have the context – in retrospect, I’m guessing this was a mistake. Even then, interview went by very quickly and was very conversational/friendly tone. No idea Read more
Published: November 6, 2022
Northwestern Kellogg Interview Questions & Report: Round 1 / Adcom-Alumnus / Off-Campus
I was interviewed by an Alum who also happened to be an Admissions Officer. The questions asked were quite focused and I felt a little jittery as it did not follow the structure I had prepared for (e.g. Tell me about yourself, Why MBA?, Behaviorals, etc.) The interview itself was blind. The interviewer only had my Resume. About 30 minutes of questions, followed by questions from me. Total interview was just under 45 minutes Here are the questions: – Why did you choose your college and the major? – Why did you choose your job and why that Read more

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November 16, 2024 2:22am ET
Accepted to HEC Paris
Round: Round 3
Received via email on November 14, 2024
GMAT: 700
Program Type: One Year Program
Target Career: Finance
November 16, 2024 1:16am ET
Waitlisted at Columbia
Round: Round 1
Received via email on November 14, 2024
GRE: 331
Program Type: Traditional Two-Year
Target Career: Entrepreneurship
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Waitlisted without interview
November 16, 2024 1:07am ET
Interview Invite to Other
Round: Round 1
Received via email
GPA: 2.7
GRE: 303
Program Type: Traditional Two-Year
Target Career: Marketing
Application Location: India
November 15, 2024 4:36pm ET
Accepted to NYU Stern
Round: Round 1
Received via phone November 15, 2024
GPA: 3.5
GMAT: 760
Program Type: Traditional Two-Year
Target Career: Finance
Application Location: United States
November 15, 2024 3:55pm ET
Interview Invite to UVA / Darden
Round: Round 1
Received via email on October 27, 2024
GPA: 3.01
GRE: 319
Program Type: Traditional Two-Year
Target Career: Other
Application Location: New York City
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