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Kellogg MBA Admissions Interview Questions: Round 2/ Alumnus / Off-campus
We were at the Starbucks. Interview was casual. 1 Walk me through your resume. 2 Elaborate on work experience after MBA. 3 Why MBA? 4 Why not School XYZ? 5 What would you do if your boss doesn’t favor you and puts you in a bad position? 6 What would you bring to Kellogg? 7 Why not 1 year? 8 Questions? We spent 1 hr and 20 mins. It was a ding.
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Published: March 31, 2013
Harvard MBA Admissions Interview Questions: R1 / Adcom / Off-Campus Hub
Interviewed in an off-campus hub with adcom. Interview was succinct, straight forward, and generally conversational. Overall, I don’t think I had any major points I didn’t get across and ultimately was admitted! 1) Let’s talk about (first company)- what do they do? What did you do there? 2) What’s your average day look like? 3) What’s the next big brand in your industry? 4) Let’s talk about (second company)- what do they do? Tell me about your job there? 5) What would you do differently if you were CEO? 6) What have you learned from
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Published: March 31, 2013
Chicago Booth MBA Admissions Interview Questions: Round 2 / Second-year student / On campus
I’m a round two applicant. I attended the Booth Live event on Friday. The event was awesome! I recommend that every applicant attend this event–before completing the app if possible. It gives you much better insight into the Booth culture, admissions process and committee members, and student personalities. Try your best to engage with as many of the Booth students and admission members as possible–they may remember you and fight for you during their review process. I had my interview the following day at 1pm. There was a first-year student or two hanging around the lobby talking to interviewees and
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Published: March 31, 2013
Chicago Booth MBA Admissions Interview Questions: Round 2 / Alumnus / On campus
I interviewed on 03/09 on campus. It was a Saturday, so the admissions office was closed. There was a seperate room set up for interviews. When I arrived, I checked in and recieved a name tag that also had the name of my interviewer (of course, I googled him right away just so I could see if we had any common interests – which we didn’t!) There were several first year students in the ‘waiting room’ that were available to answer questions and calm our nerves! When it was my time to interview, my interviewer came out, called my name,
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Published: March 28, 2013
NYU / Stern MBA Admissions Interview Questions: Round 1 / AdCom / Off-Campus Hub
I had my interview off-campus. To tell youthe truth I was pretty nervous. I reaced 15 min before time hoping to hang around and get used to the atmosphere, but I never got the chance. As soon as I reached I was handed a folder with my interests. Thanks to all the reviews I knew what to expect in this part. As I was the first candidate being interviewed that day the Adcom came right out to meet me and I was ushered in before the scheduled time. It was a very relaxed affair all in all. Once we got
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Published: March 28, 2013
Cornell / Johnson MBA Admissions Interview Questions: Round 3 / AdCom / On-Campus
Everyone was really friendly once I arrived on campus from New York on the C2C bus. I attended an information session/tour of Johnson w/ 2 first-year MBA students – this included lunch which is good because I was starving. The students were really friendly and provided a very informal setting for Q&A. I attended a class as well prior to my interview, which was helpful to gauge the style of teaching at Johnson. My interview was with an AdCom member who had my resume and notes from those who had reviewed my application. The conversation was very directed but relaxed.
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Published: March 25, 2013
Wharton MBA Admissions Interview Questions: Round 2 / Second-year / On-Campus
I didn’t like the new interview (team based interview) because many people didn’t participate fully. Also, many people came up with ideas that were out of this world. There were a lot of different opinions. However, in the end, we came to a solid conclusion. There was no feedback provided — whether that conclusion would hold good. Interview was usual – Why Wharton? Why MBA? Why now? Goals? Questions? What do you do in free time?
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Published: March 25, 2013
Wharton MBA Admissions Interview Questions: Round 2 / Second-year student / On campus
Well I got dinged today 🙁 Really, really tough to swallow as Wharton was my first choice. I can’t help but wonder if it was the TBD that did me in. I did not purchase any prep package, but perhaps should have, as I may have done/said something “wrong.” If so, I really regret it and hope future candidates can learn from my experience since my group wasn’t what seemed to be the more typical super-friendly relaxed group. My topic was “innovation.” Here’s my experience: Unlike the other groups I saw around me, mine was very tense. We spent a
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Published: March 24, 2013
Published: March 19, 2013
Georgetown / McDonough MBA Admissions Interview Questions: Round 2 / Adcom / On campus
I interviewed on 01/24 during the day. I applied Round 2 and interviewed with an AdCom memeber. When I got there, no one was in the admissions office to talk to me or answer questions or anything like that. So I had time to read through my notes and mentally prepare myself. Then, the Adcom member came out and greeted me… he was really nice and conversational. It’s a blind interview, so all he saw was my resume in advance (he also did ask me for a copy – so make sure to print one out in advance!) He asked
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Published: March 13, 2013
UNC / Kenan-Flagler MBA Admissions Interview Questions: Round 3 / AdCom / Phone
My interview was with AdCom member John Hughes. He was very relaxing and has a great interview style where it feels much more like a relaxing conversation than an interview. I am usually very nervous in interview situations but he really put me at ease. In so many words he asked me the following questions…. Where did you grow up? Walk me through your resume. What was your biggest work accomplishment? What are your short term and long term goals? Why Kenan Flagler? Do you feel your GMAT score/GPA are a true representation of your ability? John and I had
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Published: March 13, 2013
UCLA / Anderson MBA Admissions Interview Questions: Round 3 / Admission Staff
I just came back from an interview with an admission staff at Anderson. I was surprised that they would actually schedule an interview with me since the school does not provide interviews for round 3 applicants. Anyway… the meeting was only 20-25 minutes long as they mentioned on the invitation email. I was asked 1. Tell me about yourself (not exactly the way she said it) 2. Why do you need an MBA? 3. How did you prepare for your GMAT? ( I was surprised with this question) 4. How do you work in a team?
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Published: March 13, 2013
Wharton MBA Admissions Interview Questions: R2 / Adcom / Off-Campus Hub
I signed up for a group discussion with 5 other applicants. We had a 35 min talk on how to spend $1M USD in Wharton’s Global Presence. We reached consensum and even got to present our results to the Adcom Rep. Afterwards, my one-on-one interview was very casual an unstructured, the rep told me I had 10 minutes to talk about what I wanted, and so I started to give my Y MBA, Y Now and Y Wharton speech. She then asked me about my hobbies and if i had any questions for her. The time went really fast!
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Published: March 11, 2013
Wharton MBA Admissions Interview Questions: Round 2/Adcom/Off campus (London)
It is useful to arrive a little early and get to know your fellow candidates. Goes without saying if there is a drinks reception prior to your scheduled interview, make sure you attend and speak to others about how theirs went. Get some paper and pen as there is often none in the venues. It will also be useful to have a watch to keep time. We were taken to a meeting room and sat round a table. The Adcom member read the prompt and explained the rules, we were meant to discuss the prompt and make a presentation in
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Published: March 11, 2013
Oxford / Saïd MBA Admissions Interview Questions:Round 2 / Program Director / Off-campus (Singapore)
Interview time: 11 AM I was the first to be interviewed and it started 10 minutes earlier than schedule. The interview was close to 45 minutes. The interview was conducted by the Program Director. It was quite an interesting interview…Listing down the questions below. What is your role and daily work at ABC Company? If you were a client of ABC Company, what are the aspects you would consider before procuring the service of ABC? a) Would you procure from companies other than ABC b) Why would you not prefer X company at this time? c)
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Published: March 11, 2013
USC / Marshall MBA Admissions Interview Questions: Round 2 / Second-year student / On-Campus
Blind interview with a second-year student. There were several other students interviewing with other people at the same time in other rooms. Questions Asked: 1. Can you tell me your job history from past to present? 2. Why do you want an MBA? Why now? What do you want to do with it after? 3. Why USC? What clubs are you interested in? 4. Can you tell me about a time you were able to lead a team? 5. Any questions for me? I asked why he picked USC? What is it about the culture
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Published: March 11, 2013
London Business School MBA Admissions Interview Questions: Round 2 / Alumnus / Off-campus
First of all thank you to everyone who submitted his or her report. It was a really great help for preparation. My interview was at the apartment of an alumnus, as it was also his home-office. As I am female applicant and he a guy, it is not quite true that you get a female interviewer as well. But for me it didn´t matter anyway. The alumnus was a very friendly and communicative conversation partner. The whole interview was extremely relaxed and lasted for approximately 3 hours – but more because he also talked a lot about his experiences and
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Published: March 10, 2013
Wharton MBA Admissions Interview Questions: Round 2 / On campus
We were told to prepare 3 ideas in 3 different topics for a team-based discussion on campus. When we started, we all gave pitches for our ideas in a topic selected by the students in the room. These students then told us to have a discussion to come up with an idea to present to them at the end. We vetted out our ideas by establishing criterion of which idea would be best. In fact, we didnt use one idea, but fused several ideas to eventually come to a consensus on an idea. Then we separated the idea into categories
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Published: March 10, 2013
NYU / Stern MBA Admissions Interview Questions: Round 2 / Alumnus / On Campus
I had my interview during Diversity Connect with an alumnus, which I know is unusual for NYU, so I really wanted to share my experience. I will say, expecting to interview with an adcomm member meant that I prepared wrong for this interview. (About half of the Diversity Connect folks interviewed with the adcomm, the other half with alumnus that the adcomm had carefully matched us with.) The alumnus still had all of my information and had read my full application. However, the answers she was looking for were totally different – I had professors names and course names to
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Wharton MBA Admissions Interview Questions: Round 2 / A student / On Philly campus
We had the team-based interview, where 5 other students brought in ideas for the scenario of having a $1M grant from Wharton. We were chosen to talk about social innovation. We started discussing our different ideas and then talked about which criteria were the most important to make the highest impact. Some ideas were discarded completely, whereas other ideas were synthesized as we continued our discussion. Some students kept the conversation from moving by insisting on their idea before others. We finally agreed on an idea and prepared a presentation, but we ran out of time before we could present.
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Chicago Booth MBA Admissions Interview Questions: Round 2/ Second-year student/ On campus
The interview was very conversational. I completed it a couple of weeks ago. First year students were in the lounge to answer any queries. The interview lasted for 45 minutes. Interview atmosphere was really congenial. It was a blind interview. The most surprising part was the structure of the interview. I was told that the interview will be divided into four parts:- a) Professional stuff b) Behavioral questions c) Personal questions from resume d) Questions Traditional Section a) Walk me through your resume? What are your goals? Why MBA? What will you bring to Booth? Why
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Kellogg MBA Admissions Interview Questions: Round 2 / Adcom / Phone
Usual questions – interviewer was from adcom and set expectations straight 1. walk me through your resume 2. why I changed a couple of jobs that I did ? 3. Key learnings from each job 4. weaknesses 5. any questions for me 6. Open ended question – will give you a minute to say anything you want to say outside of what I have been asking Felt comfortable with the interviewer – was called for an interview after an initial waiver. I do not know what that means. All the best to everyone –
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Chicago Booth MBA Admissions Interview Questions: Round 2 / Second-year student / On-Campus
Arrived to a very friendly atmosphere in the business school. Being one of their ‘Super Saturday’ interview rounds, the main office was closed. On venturing upstairs, I was welcomed to a clearly gregarious crowd. Having arrived an hour early, I checked in and received the name tag. Several first and second year students were stationed in the lobby to chat with crowds of interviewees. My name was called, and onward to the interview. After some small talk, we were seated in a small interview room at a desk with two chairs. The topics were light, including “Walk me through your
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Cornell / Johnson MBA Admissions Interview Questions: Round 3 / Adcom / Skype
The interview was formal and lasted about 50 minutes. Questions I remember: – Please tell me about yourself – Why do you need an MBA at this point of your career? – Why Johnson? – Why 2 years MBA vs. Accelerated MBA? – What research have you done regarding your short term or long term goals? – Tell me about a challenging leadership experience – What would your supervisor say are your main characteristics – What are your main weeknesses? – How will you contribute to Johnson? – Is there anything
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Chicago Booth MBA Admissions Interview Questions: Round 1 / Alumnus / Off-campus
The interview took place in a coffee shop. The interviewer was an alum who apart from asking me questions, gave me some advice on how to sort the usual obstacles of the MBA experience. He asked me: Walk me through your resume Why an MBA? Why now? Why Booth? Tell me about about your leadership skills. What will you contribute to Booth? Where do you see yourself 10 years into the future? I was told I should be very clear as to why I thought that Booth was a good place for me.
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