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Clear Admit Featured in Financial Times Article on Changing MBA Admissions
Clear Admit’s own Graham Richmond was featured as part of an article this week in the Financial Times about changes taking place this admissions season at several top business schools. The article, entitled “The Creative Route to an MBA,” highlighted the shift at several top MBA programs toward requiring fewer essays from applicants, among other changes.
Several top schools, including Harvard Business School (HBS), Stanford Graduate School of Business and the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania, will require applicants to submit fewer essays as part of the application process than in years past. Clear Admit’s Richmond told the FT that he believes this is part of a trend by top programs to shift emphasis away from the essays and toward the interview portion of the application process.
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Published: March 27, 2012
Wharton MBA Admissions Interview Questions: Round 2 / Adcom / Off-campus Hub
Had a brief five minute chat about the adcom member and his background and a little bit about the process. Then we jumped into questions Walk me through your resume (I wove in a bit of why MBA here) Tell me about a time when you managed a team and one person was less motivated Tell me about a time when you managed someone senior to you Tell me about a time when you participated in a successful negotiation Why do you want an MBA now? (I spoke a bit more about why MBA here) Why Wharton specifically? Do you
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Published: March 13, 2012
Wharton MBA Admissions Interview Questions: Round 2 / Adcom / Off-campus Hub
I was the first interview of the day, in an Asia Hub location. We started with some very friendly chit chat about the city and the admissions committee member’s travels and experiences, for about 5 minutes before jumping into the interview. First, he outlined the structure of the interview and gave his brief background, noting that the interview is blind, i.e. he had not reviewed by application unless incidentally during the initial filtering. He then asked the following: Walk me through your resume Tell me about a time when you managed a team and one person was less motivated Tell
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Wharton MBA Admissions Interview Questions: Round 2 / AdCom / Off-Campus
I had a phone interview with an AdCom member. She was very friendly and made me feel comfortable. She described the process and told me that a phone interview is equal to an in-person interview. Then she asked me if I had any question about the process. The interview was straight-forward. 4 behavioral questions + traditional questions. The questions were (in order) Walk me through your resume Describe a time when you led a team and it failed Describe a time when you managed someone more senior to you Describe a time when you managed someone with less experience than
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Wharton MBA Admissions Interview Questions: Round 2 / Adcom / Off-campus
The interview was very friendly and conversational, as others have reported. He started by introducing his background and the blind interview format. Questions (in order) were: Walk me through your resume Talk about a time when I had to work with people who were less focused. Talk about a time when I had to manage someone senior to me. Talk about a time when I was successful in participating in a negotiation. Why now? Why an MBA? In relation to what you want to do in your career. Do you have any questions for me? Total time was 30 minutes.
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Wharton MBA Admissions Interview Questions: Round 2 / Student / On Campus
I did my interview on campus on Tuesday. I was able to do the campus tour and class visit on Monday – it was very enjoyable. The students and staff were very welcoming, and I got to confirm a lot of the reasons for which I chose to apply to the school. The interviewer was friendly – she started with an introduction about herself. She then asked me to walk her through the professional section of my resume. I just gave a little background to explain why I chose to work in that field and then went into the details
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Published: February 28, 2012
Wharton MBA Admissions Interview Questions: Round 2 / Adcom / Off-Campus
Hub interview on February 27th, 2012 in Dubai She met me in the waiting area and walked me to the conference room. Very friendly and relaxed. Started of by introducing herself and explaining the format for the interview. Asked if I had any questions, and then we started. Listed the questions below. There were follow-up questions for the behavioral questions. Tell me about a time you’ve had to convince a team of doing something different and they didn’t necessarily agree? Tell me about a time when you’ve had to convince a group of people and it didn’t work out? Tell
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Published: February 19, 2012
Wharton MBA Admissions Interview Questions: Round 2 / Off-campus
3 behavoiral questions first A time when you solved a conflict in your team A time when you managed someone senior A time when you convinced someone Your examples are mostly in cross cultural context, what are the differences between business culture in some of the countries you had interactions with. Walk through your resume Challanges when starting school again What are the things you look at when choosing B-school Why MBA, taking two years off to go back to school What do you do outside of your professional life Do you have any questions.
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Published: February 19, 2012
Wharton MBA Admissions Interview Questions: Round 2 / 2nd-year students / On-campus
I had both my Wharton and Lauder interviews today on campus. First, I attended a Lauder class and met a few other Lauder students in my desired track, which was great. The Lauder interview was with a 2nd-year student in the same track and with some common background elements. The interview was relaxed and unstructured, but we did touch on the following questions: Resume walkthrough Specific follow-up questions about my work experience Why Wharton? Why Lauder? Why Wharton + Lauder and not just Wharton? Post-MBA goals? Long term goals? Specific follow-up questions about my goals Questions on a related subject
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Published: February 14, 2012
Harvard Business School, U Penn’s Wharton School Travel the Globe to Meet Prospective Applicants
Admissions staff from top schools like Harvard Business School (HBS) and the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania are circling the globe in the weeks ahead to meet prospective applicants in the countries where they live.
Next week, HBS will host MBA Admissions events in Paris, Tokyo, Shanghai* and Beijing. South American events, in Peru and Argentina, are scheduled for later in the summer, in July. These outreach events are designed to give prospective applicants an opportunity to meet representatives from the HBS community and learn more about the MBA program and the admissions process. Interested participants are asked to register online to attend upcoming events. For a full schedule, click here.
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Published: January 16, 2011
Clear Admit Career Services Director Q&A: J.J. Cutler of the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania
~ A CLEAR ADMIT EXCLUSIVE ~
Next up in our Career Services Director Q&A Series, we turn to the University of Pennsylvania’s Wharton School. Here we reconnected with J.J. Cutler, who we first interviewed for our Admissions Director Q&A Series in February 2009. Since that interview, Cutler has been appointed deputy vice dean of admissions, financial aid and career management for Wharton, with direct oversight of the MBA Career Management Center. So it made sense to speak to him again in his new role for this series.
A lifelong Philadelphia resident, Cutler has deep ties to the University of Pennsylvania, where he got both his undergraduate degree and his MBA. After receiving his MBA in 1997 from Wharton, he worked for a number of years in healthcare consumer goods and marketing, including time at ARAMARK as senior VP of marketing, seven years at Johnson & Johnson and most recently as the president of Lindi Skin, a start-up offering skin care products specifically designed for people with cancer.
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