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Published: January 25, 2016
Yale SOM Interview Report: Round 1 / Second-year student / Skype
The following Yale SOM interview report was submitted to Clear Admit by a Round 1 applicant. Good luck to them! It was an online Skype interview with a second-year student who had not seen my résumé (blind interview). Started off formal as the interviewer explained the timing restrictions (30 minutes) and that he had a few questions he had to cover at the start before I could ask questions. The interview became more free flowing after the initial questions and he really showed an interest in what I was doing. Here are the questions: – Introduce myself. Read more
Published: January 24, 2016
UT Austin / McCombs Interview Report: Round 2 / Second-year Student / On-campus
The following UT Austin / McCombs interview report was submitted to Clear Admit by a Round 1 applicant who was admitted. Congratulations to them! Interview was on campus in the Admissions office with a second-year student. Atmosphere was relaxed and all questions were behavioral. Interviewer had access to my résumé, but was unfamiliar with the other parts of my application. Set questions to go through, but interviewer allowed for questions throughout making the 50 minutes feel more like a conversation. Questions covered: Walk me through your résumé. Why MBA? Why McCombs? Tell me about Read more
Published: January 24, 2016
Northwestern / Kellogg Interview Report: Round 2 / Second-year student / On campus
The following Northwestern / Kellogg interview report was submitted to Clear Admit by a Round 2 applicant. Good luck to them! As most of you know, Kellogg gives everyone an interview. As such, I was able to schedule the interview right after I clicked the “submit” button on my application for Round 2. I elected to travel to campus for an in-person interview, as I had never visited before (very, very glad I did that – the visit was amazing and meeting current students was incredibly helpful). A second-year student interviewed me. That being said, I sat with two other people with interviews Read more
Published: January 23, 2016
IU / Kelley Interview Report: Round 2 / Adcom / Off-Campus
The following IU / Kelley MBA interview report was submitted to Clear Admit by a Round 2 applicant. Arrived early and waited in the hotel lobby’s lounge, which was where the interview took place. Interviewer arrived 15 minutes early and asked if we could get started because he had a cancellation. Interview lasted about about 50 minutes because of the early start. Interviewer took notes and mentioned he had only reviewed my résumé. The interview was relaxed and felt like a conversation, rather than an interrogation, and the interviewer asked a lot of follow-up questions, after the standard questions. Read more
Published: January 23, 2016
Northwestern / Kellogg Interview Report: Round 2 / Alumnus / Off-campus
The following Northwestern / Kellogg interview report was submitted to Clear Admit by a Round 2 applicant. Good luck to them! The interview took place in a coffee shop near her place, about 45 minutes. We met up really early in the morning. The whole conversation was very casual. And the questions were very focused on my work and my goal, but very few questions were actually asked by her. 1. Tell me about yourself. 2. Why MBA? Why Kellogg? 3. What club to join? 4. How will you contribute to Kellogg? 5. What is your goal Read more
Published: January 19, 2016
NYU / Stern Interview Report: Round 1 / Adcom / On-Campus
The following NYU / Stern interview report was submitted to Clear Admit by a Round 1 applicant who was admitted. Congratulations to them! I interviewed in early December, on campus for Stern. I arrived 5 minutes before my scheduled interview (I did not plan my subway trip timing correctly) and my interview started on time with an Adcom member. She was very friendly and the whole interview felt like a mixture of a job interview and a conversation. The interviewer definitely knows your profile before the interview, I mentioned something that I had brought up in my personal expression essay Read more
Published: January 19, 2016
U. Chicago Booth Interview Report: Round 1 / Second-year student / On-campus
The following U. Chicago Booth interview report was submitted to Clear Admit by a Round 1 applicant who was admitted. Congratulations to them! I interviewed with a second-year student at Booth’s Harper Center in the Hyde Park campus. The student had the résumé I submitted with my application, but no other information on me. Her questions were very, very straightforward: 1. Walk me through your résumé / tell me about yourself. 2. Why are you applying to b-school? 3. Why Booth? Why are you a fit for the community here? 4. Tell me about Read more
Published: January 19, 2016
Harvard Business School Interview Report: Round 1 / Adcom / On-campus
The following Harvard Business School interview report was submitted to Clear Admit by a Round 1 applicant. I spent weeks preparing for my Harvard Business School interview, but at the end of the day, they’re not lying–you really can’t prepare for it. I mean this in the most complimentary way possible, because I think they do a great job identifying those who have developed a wealth of knowledge on the job and would be a solid contributor to the classroom and community there (rather than an interview prep contest!). Regardless, an overview of my day: HBS sets up a waiting Read more
Published: January 19, 2016
U. Chicago Booth Interview Report: Round 1/ Second-year student / On-Campus
The following U. Chicago Booth interview report was submitted to Clear Admit by a Round 1 applicant who was admitted. Congratulations to them! When interviewing on campus at Booth, you sit in a waiting area where other 2nd year students come and talk to you about their interview experience while you wait to basically give you tips and make you feel comfortable before going in. Talking to others that went through the process I was going through really did make me feel at ease and made me go into the interview with more confidence. The interview tone was both Read more
Published: January 18, 2016
Stanford MBA Interview Report: Round 1 / Alumnus / Off-campus
The following Stanford MBA interview report was submitted to Clear Admit by a Round 1 applicant. I met with my interviewer in a coffee shop and the interview lasted about 75 minutes. It was extremely conversational and incredibly friendly, the friendliest interview I had out of all schools. The interviewer was weaving in and out from trying to get to know me to probing leadership examples/stories for him to get a sense of my leadership style and how I act in those roles. All my questions were leadership questions related to every single one of my jobs on my résumé. Stanford Read more
Published: January 18, 2016
UT Austin / McCombs Interview Report: Round 1 / Adcom / Off-Campus Hub
The following UT Austin / McCombs interview report was submitted to Clear Admit by a Round 1 applicant who was admitted. Congratulations to them! I interviewed during Round 1 and chose the option for the off-campus hub in NYC. My interviewer was a member of the admissions committee, and the interview took place in a coffee shop in the lobby of a hotel. The environment was relaxed, but my interview was at 10 AM so it was quite noisy at times with the blender going which made it hard to hear my interviewer (we were fairly close to the Read more
Published: January 16, 2016
Northwestern / Kellogg Interview Report: Round 2 / Alumnus / Off-Campus
The following Northwestern / Kellogg interview report was submitted to Clear Admit by a Round 2 applicant. Good luck to them! I interviewed with an alumna from the class of 2009 at a Starbucks in the Hartford, CT area. I had emailed her a copy of my résumé, which she looked over beforehand (I also gave her a paper copy in person). She was super friendly and kept the tone of the interview very conversational, which was a welcome surprise. The questions were mostly pretty standard, in roughly the following order: – Why MBA at this moment and why Kellogg? Read more
Published: January 15, 2016
INSEAD Interview Report: Round 1 / Alumnus / Off-campus
The following INSEAD MBA interview report was submitted to Clear Admit by a Round 1 applicant who was accepted. Congratulations to them! Congratulations if you’ve made it as far as getting an interview invitation from INSEAD! If you aren’t already aware, INSEAD generally requires you to do 2 interviews with alumni, and they find current alumni in your city to interview you. When the names of the alumni I was meant to contact were emailed through, I was also instructed to either send the alumni my CV or a copy of my INSEAD application. However, whether or not they read it Read more
Published: January 15, 2016
Northwestern / Kellogg Interview Report: Round 2 / Alumnus / Off-Campus
The following Northwestern / Kellogg interview report was submitted to Clear Admit by a Round 2 applicant. Good luck to them! Just had my interview this afternoon in New York. The interviewer worked in management consulting for two years after Kellogg and switched to entrepreneurship. He just started his own company. The interview was very, very conversational and unconventional in a way that my interviewer did not directly throw behavior questions such as “tell me about a time when…” We started the conversation by talking about his start-up and my internship at a VC, and then we switched to the “walk me through Read more
Published: January 14, 2016
Yale SOM Interview Report: Round 2 / Video Interview
The following Yale SOM interview report was submitted to Clear Admit by a Round 2 applicant. Good luck to them! The three video interview questions I received were: 1) Why have you chosen to pursue an MBA at this time? 2) Tell us about a time when you had to exert extra effort to complete a task. What was that task and what steps did you take to be successful? 3) “The people who we remember most are the people who break the rules.” Do you agree or disagree with this Read more
Published: January 13, 2016
MIT Sloan Interview Report: Round 1 / Adcom / Skype
The following MIT Sloan interview report was submitted to Clear Admit by a Round 1 applicant who was admitted. Congratulations to them! The interview was via Skype because the Adcom made an exception when my flight to MIT was cancelled last-minute. It was at 6am my time (PST), so I was fairly groggy, but the behavioral nature of the questions and the warm, friendly Adcom interviewee made the interview quite engaging. Nothing caught me off-guard; however, unlike my other interview experiences, the questions did not focus on my aspirations and goals. As a Social Impact, unorthodox B-school candidate, I was used to Read more
Published: January 13, 2016
NYU Stern Interview Report: Round 1 / Adcom / On-campus
The following NYU / Stern interview report was submitted to Clear Admit by a Round 1 applicant who was admitted. Congratulations to them! I interviewed during Round 1, a bit late in the process (first week of December). I am a woman and opted to do the interview during the normal process, instead of the Spotlight on Women event. My interviewer was part of the Admissions Committee, and she had read my application before the interview. The interview took place in the adcom’s office. The conversation started off with some discussion about my interest in cycling, as I had listed Read more
Published: January 12, 2016
UNC Kenan-Flagler Interview Report: Round 2 / Adcom / Skype
The following UNC Kenan-Flagler interview report was submitted to Clear Admit by a Round 2 applicant. Good luck to them! I was interviewed via Skype by an Adcom member. She was very friendly and keen on getting me relaxed before the interview. She started by thanking me for showing interest and applying to UNC Kenan-Flagler and also thanked me for waiting up for the interview since I am international student based outside the USA. She showed me a copy of my CV and stated that she had not seen my application yet. Th following questions were asked: Read more
Published: January 11, 2016
UNC Kenan-Flagler Interview Report: Round 2 / Adcom / Skype
The following UNC Kenan-Flagler interview report was submitted to Clear Admit by a Round 2 applicant. Good luck to them! Interviewed by an adcom member. He is super friendly and super awesome guy. Though every interviewer says that it would be conversational and friendly chat, this guy takes it to another level. I literally felt like sitting in a coffee shop, chatting with an old pal! Some of the questions were very unexpected questions, but none caught me off-guard as they were simple questions about me. He started off by greeting, saying a few comforting sentences. Then he asked Read more
Published: January 11, 2016
UPenn / Wharton Interview Report: Round 1 / Second-year student / On-campus
The following UPenn / Wharton interview report was submitted to Clear Admit by a Round 1 Health Care Management applicant who was admitted. Congratulations to them! I was a Health Care Management (HCM) applicant and had two interviews: one with a second-year student, and one with the HCM director, June Kinney. My student interview included the standard Wharton group interview and a brief one-on-one with the second-year after. The group interview was with ~six other applicants, with two second-year moderators/observers. We were emailed a prompt with our interview invitation (prompt: acting as a student at Wharton, plan a conference Read more
Published: January 11, 2016
NYU / Stern Interview Report: Round 2 / Adcom / On-Campus
The following NYU / Stern interview report was submitted to Clear Admit by a Round 2 applicant who was admitted. Congratulations to them! Met with two admissions counselors. They were friendly but the atmosphere was definitely a formal interview. Here are some of the questions I was asked: -Ice breaker for unique résumé item -Walk me through your résumé / work experience. -Why MBA? -Why Stern? -Leadership examples -Give an example of interpersonal communication -Example of a time you have failed -3 brands you admire, 3 companies you would want to Read more
Published: January 10, 2016
UCLA Anderson Interview Report: Round 1 / Second-year Student / Skype
The following UCLA Anderson interview report was submitted to Clear Admit by a Round 1 applicant. Read more
Published: January 10, 2016
Yale SOM Interview Report: Round 2 / Video Interview
The following Yale SOM interview report was submitted to Clear Admit by a Round 2 applicant. Read more
Published: January 5, 2016
Columbia Business School Interview Report: Regular Decision / Alumnus / Off-Campus
The following Columbia Business School interview report was submitted to Clear Admit by a Regular Decision applicant. Read more
Published: January 4, 2016
Vote Now for the Best MBA Interview Report for December ’15
Back in November we put out a call for the best MBA interview reports, and you responded in droves! We received more than 50 quality reports from the applicant community, and for that we thank you! Read more

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