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Published: February 1, 2016
Georgetown / McDonough Interview Report: Round 2 / First-year student / On-Campus
The following Georgetown / McDonough interview report was submitted to Clear Admit by a Round 2 applicant. Good luck to them! The interview was on campus. I was stuck in traffic and arrived 8 minutes late, I had called ahead as soon as I parked to let them know I was on campus and on my way. The student did not seem too upset but in the long run I think cut down a couple questions he asked due to time constraints. We still had a 35 minute conversation which was very relaxed and conversational. The interview was completely blind. He had not
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Published: January 31, 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 2 applicant. I interviewed on campus with a very friendly second-year student. It appeared that she had only seen my resume, and nothing was very surprising in the interview. She made it clear that culture is very important at McCombs which is one of the main reasons they have second-year students interview: to preserve the culture. I was asked: – Walk me through your résumé. – What are your short-/long-term goals? – How does an MBA fit into your goals? –
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Published: January 29, 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! A bit late but sharing the interview experience that I had for UNC Kenan-Flagler. I had my interview on 5th January for round 2 and it was conducted by an adcom. It was, as most of the seniors said, a conversation wherein she tried to understand my motivation to do an MBA, my work-ex and most importantly why at UNC Kenan Flagler. It started of with a 20 + 10 min (20 min for her to know me and
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Published: January 29, 2016
MIT Sloan Interview Report: Round 2 / Adcom / Off-Campus Hub
The following MIT Sloan interview report was submitted to Clear Admit by a Round 2 applicant who was admitted. Congratulations to them! The Admission Director for Sloan Fellows program was the interviewer. Interview lasted 75 min rather than the scheduled 45 min. The interview was more conversational than formal. I had a great and very comfortable interview experience. Interview’s focus was on gauging clarity on my career goals (short vs long term) and seeing the connection between my career objectives and fit with SF program. Additional questions were asked around my essays and around my personal background. I received the acceptance email
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Published: January 28, 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 who was admitted. Congratulations to them! I traveled from Mumbai to Boston for my Harvard Business School interview. There was a full day of activities planned for the interview invites, including a class visit, career center info session, chat with current students, lunch with faculty, campus tour, and others.) I highly recommend that any HBS interview invitees visit campus for the interview, no matter how far away they may have to travel. Just before the interview, we were given a brief
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Published: January 26, 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! The interview was on campus when school wasn’t in session (January). It was very quiet around campus, but the admissions office was warm and welcome. Though since school was not in session, there was no option to visit classes or grab lunch with a current student. The adcom was very familiar with my application and drove the interview without needing to review details. It lasted 35-40 minutes, and none of the questions were particularly surprising. She was
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Published: January 26, 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 had mailed the alumna to set up a time and she suggested a star-hotel’s cafe on same week’s Friday morning. I waited for 30 minutes beyond our scheduled time. Had to actually call her – turned out she forgot to set a reminder. As we sat in the quiet cafe, she apologized for being late and explained how the interview would go. She said it’ll be a behavioral interview, that it is blind, and asked for a paper copy of my résumé. She said
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Published: January 26, 2016
Dartmouth / Tuck Interview Report: Early Action / Second-year student / On-campus
The following Dartmouth / Tuck interview report was submitted to Clear Admit by an Early Action applicant who was admitted. Congratulations to them! I applied Early Action and interviewed on campus before submitting my application. I highly recommend this, as I was able to incorporate details of my visit into my essays and obviously demonstrate my interest to the Admissions Board. I had a class visit before my interview which I’d also recommend, because it gives you something else to discuss (what did you learn about culture/fit, etc.). My interview was very conversational and straightforward. Huge, huge
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Published: January 25, 2016
Dartmouth / Tuck Interview Report: Round 2 / Second-year student/ On-Campus
The following Dartmouth / Tuck interview report was submitted to Clear Admit by a Round 2 applicant. I interviewed with a second-year student via Tuck’s open interview policy. The interview was conducted one-on-one in a small conference room on-campus. I was asked: 1. Did you already have your class visit? Which class/professor? 2. Walk me through your work experience so far. 2a. Offshoot/clarifying question about technology differences in international markets of my industry. 3. Why MBA? 4. Why Tuck? 5. What are some specific classes you are interested in attending? 6.
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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.
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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
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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
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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.
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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Published: January 17, 2016
Clear Admit’s Interview Archive: Your Go-To Resource as Round 2 Interview Invitations Roll Out
We’re seeing them from Yale School of Management, UNC Kenan-Flagler, Tuck, Kellogg, UCLA Anderson and Columbia Business School, to name more than a handful. Round 2 interview invitations are wending their way to anxious applicants. With many more to come in the next few weeks, now’s the time to take advantage of the Clear Admit Interview Archive.
We’ve received more than 80 new submissions already this application season, bringing the total to more than 1,600 in-depth interview reports in all. For those of you not familiar with Clear Admit’s Interview Archive, it’s a repository of first-hand accounts shared directly by MBA applicants after they have interviewed with one or more of their target top-tier business schools.
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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?
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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
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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
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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
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