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Published: December 4, 2019
Wharton MBA Interview Questions & Report: Round 1 / Adcom / Off-Campus Hub
I had my interview in London, with a member of the Adcom and five other candidates from Europe/Africa/Asia/America. We all got together about half an hour before the interview and got to know ourselves, which gave the tbd a relaxed feel. The interview was blind as the interviewer hadn’t seen my application or resume. I was asked why I wanted an MBA and why Wharton. One on one felt informal, and the interviewer was very open and friendly. Interview experience was pleasant overall. Preparing for your UPenn Wharton MBA Admissions Interview? Check out Clear Admit’s other resources:
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Published: December 4, 2019
Kellogg / Northwestern MBA Interview Questions & Report: Round 1 / Alum / Off-Campus
Interviewer was very warm and nice. Asked typical behavioral questions that you can find on Clear Admit/GMAT club, but drilled down on a couple questions such as: 1. (After explaining my analytical background briefly) Can you tell me about a project where you showed your analytical skills? 2. (After walking her through a time I have failed) How did you handle it? 3. (After walking her through a time I led a project) What do you think is the contributing factor to the your success ? 4. (After reviewing my resume) what is your role and
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Published: December 4, 2019
Cambridge / Judge MBA Interview Report: Round 1 / Faculty / On-Campus
I opted for an on-campus R1 interview on October 21st ’19. The night preceding the interview, the adcoms threw this amazing dinner at Queens’ College’s Old Hall which was absolutely stunning. The dinner was not assessed (at least that’s what they said) but both adcoms and current students are there for you to ask questions about. Feel free to ask them anything, especially the students. The following morning, a cab picked us up from Westminster College (a free night stay courtesy of the adcoms for some of us) and drove us to the School. We were handed these goodie bags
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Published: December 4, 2019
Chicago Booth MBA Interview Questions & Report: Round 1 / Alum / Off-Campus
My interview was with a very senior alumnus in India. It was a blind interview and he had no access to my application. However, we spoke at length about my future goals. Questions were largely behavioural in nature – 1. What are your biggest professional achievements and failures? 2. Tell me about a time you worked on a team 3. How did you cope with negative feedback 4. Short and long term goals 5. Why Booth 6. Why MBA? Why not just startup right now? 7. What are your expectations from Booth
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Published: December 4, 2019
London Business School Interview Questions & Report: Round 1 / Alum / Off-Campus
Interview was in Mumbai at the office of my alumnus. It was an application-based alumni interview. He knew my goals and background. LBS interviews are long in nature (~2 hours). The format was – 1 hour of standard questions, 30 mins of presentation on case study, 30 mins of general chit chat. Standard Qs were on the lines of – 1. Tell me about a time you worked on a team 2. What is your long term goal 3. Short term goal 4. Why LBS 5. Professional experiences (deep into these) 6. Passions and
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Published: December 4, 2019
Harvard Business School MBA Interview Questions & Report: Round 1 / Adcom / On-Campus
I only had the AdCom member in my interview, and did not have an observer. Here are the questions they asked: 1) I see you were on campus in [month]. What class did you visit? What did you like about it? 2) You grew up in [Country]. Do you remember any of it? Keep in touch with any of your friends from there? 3) So that’s how you started [niche EC]. I can’t imagine that was a thing in [NewCountry]. Makes sense! 4) How did you like [UG university]? 5) Why did you pick it?
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Published: December 4, 2019
Wharton MBA Interview Questions & Report: Round 1 / Second-Year Student / On-Campus
The team based discussion was fairly straightforward: 1) Got email for interview 2) Signed up for interview 3) Received prompt for TBD 4) Went to TBD During the TBD, there were 2 second-year students in the room evaluating us. They read a very generic intro statement at the beginning, which was fairly formal and seemed to add to the tension in the room. From there, we had the standard 35 minutes to discuss the topic and get to a recommendation. Others in the TBD were fairly talkative, but clearly lots of nerves in the room. Regardless,
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Published: December 3, 2019
Published: December 3, 2019
UCLA Anderson MBA Interview Questions & Report: Round 1 / Second-Year Student / Skype
I had my Anderson interview over video with a second-year student. Overall, I’d say it was the most conversational of all the interviews I had which I really appreciated as I got to ask questions about his experience and his overall demeanor definitely calmed my nerves. No major curve balls or unexpected questions. The interviewer was super nice and was clearly really excited about Anderson. Questions – Walk me through your resume – Why MBA / why Anderson / why now (he pressed on the timing) – What clubs would I want to join and why
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Published: December 3, 2019
UC Berkeley Haas MBA Interview Questions & Report: Round 1 / Alum / Off-Campus
Type: blind interview (interviewer only sees resume) List of required interview questions: 1. Walk me through your resume 2. Why an MBA? 3. Why Haas? How will Haas help you achieve your short/long-term goals? 4. Tell me about a time when you were on a team where others didn’t agree with you at the start of a project, but by the end you had changed their minds…or something along those lines (can’t remember the exact phrasing) 5. Diversity question…something along the lines of “How have you actively promoted diversity in the workplace?” (question asked
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Published: December 3, 2019
Michigan / Ross MBA Interview Questions & Report: Round 1 / Alum / Off-Campus
The interview was conducted at a local Starbucks by an alum who had read my resume briefly. He started with tell me about yourself and I walked through all of my resume experience – after that there wasn’t much questioning related directly to the resume. He also took notes via computer which was unusual for an interview, but was able to type while still looking at me. Not a huge factor, but just something very different than I’d experienced. Other questions included – 1. Why an MBA? 2. Why now? (really pried on these first two) 3.
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Published: December 3, 2019
Kellogg / Northwestern MBA Interview Questions & Report: Round 1 / Alum / Off-Campus
The interview was pretty straightforward and casual – we met at a coffee shop on a Sunday and she was an alum of the 1Y program, as that’s what I applied to. She had marked up my resume and had some forms to fill out from Kellogg. Questions included – 1. Why Kellogg? 2. Why an MBA? 3. Why now? 4. Pretty pointed questions about each of my jobs as listed on my resume and extreme detail on some bullets or stories I told (I’m assuming this was personal interest as they had a supply chain tilt
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Published: December 3, 2019
Wharton MBA Interview Questions & Report: Round 1 / Second-Year Student / On-Campus
Got to the admissions office early to socialize with other applicants. I was lucky enough that two applicants with whom I was talking to ended up in my team, so I had had time to get to know their names and personalities beforehand (we were all wearing name tags regardless). During the TBD, there were two people with the same main idea so we went with that. Not sure how we would’ve decided on an idea otherwise. Be prepared to answer some basic questions that may come up if your idea is chosen, it can be your time to shine
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Published: December 3, 2019
Wharton MBA Interview Questions & Report: Round 1 / Second-Year Students / On-Campus
The interview was fairly quick and went as explained online. I showed up about half an hour before the scheduled time and interacted with the other students who had also arrived in the admissions office. When the time came, we were called into a room as a group of 6 for the Team-Based Discussion which followed the pre-posted prompt. It lasted for thirty minutes with one student in each corner of a small conference room while the team had its discussion around the main table. Then, one of the students pulled each of us aside for a ten minute discussion
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Published: December 3, 2019
Stanford GSB MBA Interview Questions & Report: Round 1 / Alum / Off-Campus
Interview was blind and conducted with an alumnus off campus. Stanford admissions was very flexible with scheduling; when I received my invite to interview, I was required to submit my current location and given a 10-14 day interview window. However, due to military training I had to put multiple locations by date. The admissions director linked me up with an alumnus (State President for Fortune 500 Company) that happened to be in my training location, but said not to worry too much about the 10 day window and that Stanford Admissions could also arrange a different alumnus or even a
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Published: December 3, 2019
UT Austin / McCombs MBA Interview Questions & Report: Round 1 / Alum / Off-Campus
This interview took place in central London with an alumnus who is working in an internet/new media company in a senior program manager role, she also let me know that this is the 3rd organization she is working for since passing out of McCombs. Before setting up an alumni interview, the interviewee is supposed to look up the possible interviewers in her location from the alumni interviewer register, which would be made available to the candidate once she scores an interview invite. Unfortunately, I found out that there are only 2 interviewers available for UK, and only one of
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Published: December 2, 2019
Columbia Business School MBA Interview Questions & Report: Early Decision / Alum / Off-Campus
I met the alumni interviewer at a local Starbucks on a weeknight evening. He was running pretty late so we ended up meeting 15-30 minutes after the planned start time. I’d reached out to him earlier over email to introduce myself and schedule the interview, and he told me we’d have a conversation around 3 questions (listed at the end) so I knew exactly what to prepare. He only had my resume to go off of, and though we started off more formally (talked about my resume and my career goals) and talked more to the questions he asked, it
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Published: December 2, 2019
Northwestern / Kellogg MBA Interview Questions & Report: Round 1 / Second-Year Student / Skype
I received an interview invitation fairly late (late October), and due to unavailable alumni in my area (I am from Central America, for reference) I was offered a Skype interview. The invitation e-mail stated that interview would be conducted by an admission’s member who had not previously reviewed my application, so I was surprised when I was greeted by a second-year student. The interview was fairly standard and no surprise questions were asked, except for one, later marked with **. It was evident to me that I was paired up with the student based on interests, given that he seemed
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Published: December 2, 2019
HEC Paris MBA Interview Questions & Report: Rolling Admissions / Alum / Skype
HEC Paris normally arranges for 2 interviews with members of its alumni. Normally, at least one of them is kept f2f. However, in my case, both of them were to be taken via Skype. One of the interviewers was a project manager in an insurance company in Zurich, Switzerland and the other interviewer was, again, a project manager in an Agri business. Since both of them were in skype, I decided to put them on the same day to compartmentalize HEC and prepare exclusively for HEC interviews that week. The format of the interviews are such: 1) A Presentation
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Published: December 2, 2019
MIT Sloan MBA Interview Questions & Report: Round 1 / Adcom / On-Campus
Pretty standard interview with an admissions officer, I had prepared for a ton of edge questions but I got 3 questions that were probably the easiest to prepare for / top of the list for most people: – Walk me through your resume / background – Tell me about a time where you made an impact on your organization – Tell me about a time where you had to deal with a colleague who was challenging / hard to deal with – Why MBA/Why Sloan Relatively relaxed environment, although I didn’t feel like I made as much
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Published: December 2, 2019
Duke / Fuqua MBA Interview Questions & Report: Round 1 / Second-Year Student / Skype
The interview was very informal and conversational, there were no questions that you would consider out of the ordinary or difficult and the interviewer was very friendly. I started the conversation saying hi and asking him about how the weather was in Durham, just to break the ice. He then told me about himself, his background, goals, why he chose Fuqua and his experience with recruiting. His goals/industry was different from mine. He then reiterated the fact that it was a blind interview and that he only had access to my resume. The questions that he asked were: 1. Tell
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Published: December 1, 2019
Yale SOM MBA Interview Questions & Report / Round 1 / Second-year student / on-campus
Interviewed on-campus on Friday and attended the whole day activity including a campus tour and a faculty presentation. The interviewer was a second-year student, very friendly and explained the process at the beginning of the interview. The latter lasted 30 min with the last 5 min for questions and answers. The questions were the following: 1. Present yourself briefly. 2. What brings you here and why MBA now? 3. Tell me about a time you had to manage a team and how did you react? 4. Is there anything you wish you could have
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Published: November 26, 2019
Fuqua / Duke MBA Interview Questions & Report / Round 1 / Second-year student / On-campus
This was an applicant-initiated interview scheduled during Fuqua’s open interview period in late-September. The interview was conducted in Fuqua’s designated interview areas by a second-year student who also led tour groups throughout the day. The interview was also blind (only had access to my resume). Overall, the interview was very conversational, and I truly got the sense that my interviewer was trying to understand me as a person. There really weren’t any curve-balls or IB/consulting questions, so nothing was too surprising. The questions were fairly standard and mostly stuck to a script (which I assume is often the case in
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Published: November 26, 2019
Fuqua / Duke MBA Interview Questions & Report / Round 1 / Second Year Student / Skype
Started on Skype with some quick banter because my interviewer and I had a similar background. (Really wasn’t expecting this but it definitely put me more at ease.) Overall, the interview was very informal and felt like a conversation. Biggest Takeaway: Without a doubt, the interviewers are trained to find out how likely you are to pick Fuqua. As the interview neared the end, I realized that the “Why Fuqua?” question had follow ups throughout the 30 minutes. For instance, my post-MBA goals really lined up with a manufacturing firm that recruits at Fuqua. But additional questions like how I
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Published: November 25, 2019
Columbia Business School Interview Questions & Report: Early Decision / Alumnus / Off-Campus
Interview was very casual. He introduced himself and then asked me to introduce myself. He had gone through my resume in advance and asked some particular questions about my schooling. Below is an overview of some questions he asked. 1. What is the most difficult experience you have been through? 2. What will you do if you don’t get a visa to work in the US? 3. Tell me more about your interests outside of work? 4. Why do you not want to go back to your family business after the MBA? (personal question) 5.
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