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Published: March 27, 2012

MIT / Sloan MBA Admissions Interview Questions: Round 2 / Adcom

Any updates to your application or anything new you’ve accomplished at work? Tell me about a company in your industry that has caught your eye. Given your role at your company (work for a startup), what will it be like when you leave? Tell me about a time you helped a colleague who was struggling professionally. Tell me about a time you had to persuade your colleagues. Follow up questions about how I delegated analysis of the issue and how I felt my colleagues perceived my approach. Tell me about a time a colleauge had a contrasting opinion or gave Read more

Published: March 24, 2012

UT Austin / McCombs MBA Admissions Interview Questions: Round 3 / On Campus / AdCom

Submitted application on 1/23, invited to interview on 2/8. US, non-Texas applicant. This was probably my most relaxed b-school interview yet (fourth one) – I nearly ended up in tears of laughter, which was completely unexpected. I chose to interview on-campus in Austin and since I interviewed on a Friday, my interview was with an AdCom member – not a second-year like I was told. Much of the focus and crux of the interview was atypical from the usual – in that there were no “Tell me about a time when…” questions or questions on leadership/teamwork… but the nature was Read more

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Published: March 21, 2012

Yale SOM MBA Admissions Interview Questions: Round 2 / AdCom / On Campus

Hi all Pretty standard questions mostly: Explain why you choose your undergraduate school and what you did there. Explain how you got to your current job. If asked, how would your boss or client describe you? Tell me about a time you worked on a team. Questions? Good luck all ! Read more

Published: March 20, 2012

UCLA / Anderson MBA Admissions Interview Questions: Round 2 / Second-year student / On Campus

I interviewed Round 2 with a second year student on-campus last week. The interview lasted 30 minutes. I was asked the following: Tell me about yourself and walk me through your resume. Why an MBA, and why UCLA? What student organizations would you get involved with? How would you describe a leader and what is your role? Tell me about a failure and what you learned. Questions for me? The interview was friendly and casual, and I left with a good impression about UCLA. Read more

Published: March 19, 2012

UVA / Darden MBA Admissions Interview Questions: Round 2 / Off Campus / Alum

I had my interview on Feb 28th with an alumnus off-campus. I am an international applicant based in Mumbai. The interviewer was extremely friendly and asked me to tell me my story, telling about my life, academics, decisions taken in life what I have done, work experiences and then touch upon why MBA, career goals and why Darden. I had heard of this format of interview and had prepared for this so after the initial chat I started with my story and told about my experiences in detail. The interview asked questions related to what I told but all in Read more

Published: March 19, 2012

Kellogg MBA Admissions Interview Questions: Round 2 / Alum / Off Campus

I am an international applicant and had interview on Feb 29th with an alumnus, off-campus. My interview was held in interviewer’s car as she had to go somewhere and we had to complete the interview within a day according to school deadline. I was asked by her to meet at airport. The interview began about half an hour late, when she came out of the airport and it began as soon as she met me on airport itself. The interview questions were mostly standard: Where are you working and whats your job responsibilities? What is your background? Why you want Read more

Published: March 19, 2012

MIT / Sloan MBA Admissions Interview Questions: Round 2 / On-Campus / Adcom

I got my invitation to interview on March 2nd, and had 2 weeks to schedule the interview. I scheduled it for the week after, because of work obligations. They offered lunch with a current student on interview days, but then there were no interview timeslots around lunchtime, so i chose a morning slot to minimize the amount of time out of the office (i’m local). ALSO — YOU HAVE TO BRING TRANSCRIPT COPIES. nowhere on their website did they mention that, at all, before you get invited to interview (and i looked, because i was ordering them for another school Read more

Published: March 19, 2012

UCLA / Anderson MBA Admissions Interview Questions: Round 2 / Off Campus

Interview conducted on 3/15 in a local Starbucks and lasted approximately 45 minutes. Was not asked to send my resume before the interview, but presented the resume as the interview started. Relatively informal and casual interview – the main goal of the interview was to assess fit. Traditional questions to start the interview. Walk me through your resume/tell me about yourself. Why MBA? What are your short term and long term goals? Why is UCLA a good fit? How do you plan on getting involved at UCLA? Read more

Published: March 19, 2012

UCLA / Anderson MBA Admissions Interview Questions: Round 1 (Admitted) / Second-year Student / On Campus

Interviewed on 1/11/2012 with a 2nd year student on campus. Received admission e-mail on 1/25/2012. Interview lasted about 40 minutes Walk me through your resume (with some questions about my engineering experience) Why MBA? Why UCLA? Tell me about a leadership experience. Questions for me? Overall, I enjoyed the interview. It was a very casual conversation where the interviewer showed genuine interest in me as a person, my career aspirations, and how the Anderson MBA fits in. No probing / forcing questions to put me on my toes. It really was a 2-way conversation, where the interviewer related and inter-weaved Read more

Published: March 18, 2012

UT Austin / McCombs MBA Admissions Interview Questions: Round 3 / On Campus / 2nd year student

Invitation to interview received on February 15th. I’m an international student It was very relax interview. The interviewer first explained 4 strength of McCombs (his version) and share a little bit of his career and background 1. Tell me a little bit about yourself. 2. Other schools that you have applied 3. What are your goals? 4. What is the weakest part of your application? 5. What is your biggest accomplishment (professional and personal)? 6. How do you define “great leadership”? And how did you implement it in your life? 7. What is your difficulties working in a team? What Read more

Published: March 15, 2012

UCLA / Anderson MBA Admissions Interview Questions: Round 2 (Admitted) / Alum / Off Campus

I am in UCLA Round 2 with US$30K. I was invited for interview on Feb. 15, and took my interview on March 4. I received my admission call on March 9. Why MBA? Why UCLA? Why now? Leadership example. Hobbies? An example of resolving conflict. A story shown on my resume (I am a lawyer; so it is about my experience of defending a murder-rapist). Any questions to UCLA or interviewer? I asked his experience: why consulting, PE and then banking? Why UCLA? Collectively lasted over 75 min. Read more

Published: March 14, 2012

Columbia MBA Admissions Interview Questions: Regular Decision / Alum / Off Campus

Applied to Columbia MBA program: Jan. 15th, 2012 Invited to Interview: Mar. 5th, 2012 Interviewed: Mar. 11th, 2012 Status Changed to Complete: Mar. 14th, 2012 We met at a Starbuck’s in Atlanta The interviewer was a recent grad who works for McKinsey. He was candid, straight-forward, and didn’t let things feel formal. He first gave me a chance to ask questions about his Columbia and work experience. It was a great way to break the ice. This lasted for 15 minutes. We thoroughly discussed the academics at Columbia (particularly around finance and Heilbrunn) along with the new grades disclosure policy Read more

Published: March 14, 2012

UCLA / Anderson MBA Admissions Interview Questions: Round 2 / Second-year Student / On Campus

I arrived and checked in at the admissions office with my photo ID. My interview started at my appointment time in a career center interview room. It went for 25 minutes with 15-20 minutes of me asking questions at the end. The atmosphere was relaxed and very conversational. My interviewer was taking copious notes the entire time. Type of interview – Blind, resume-based interview with 2nd year student. List of interview questions: Tell me about yourself. Resume-specific questions: gaps, details, etc. Short and long term goals. Describe day-to-day at recent job. Discuss what you like the most and least about Read more

Published: March 14, 2012

UCLA / Anderson MBA Admissions Interview Questions:

I applied in Round 2 and was interviewed via Skype with a 2nd-year student on March 8, 2012. I signed in my Skype account about 20 minutes prior the interview and realized that the student had already added me some minutes before. He later called me promptly at the interview time. He was very friendly with a cute smile. 🙂 He introduced himself and tried to make me feel at ease. He said the interview would last 30 minutes. He would ask me about my candidacy for 20 minutes and the rest was for my questions. First, he asked me to Read more

Published: March 13, 2012

London Business School MBA Admissions Interview Questions: Round 1 / Alum / Off Campus

I had an interview with an alumni in Paris. We met at a local cafe with a very nice setting. I came about 15 minutes earlier to be prepared and allow some margin for getting lost. The interviewer started by introducing himself briefly and we jumped to the interview start away: Walk me through your resume What are your short and long term goals + tons of follow-up questions that took about an1 / 1.5 hours to answer ; I brought up why MBA, why LBS a lot here and used very specific examples of the LBS program to support my Read more

Published: March 13, 2012

Kellogg MBA Admissions Interview Questions: Round 2 / Alum / Off Campus

The interview was in my city with alum in a cafe. It was the most stressful interview I have ever had. I had to defend every thing I told, like -“I don’t know your company, what do you do?” I explained. “Is this profitable? To my mind, you are the odd link” The questions were: Walk me through your resume What are your short/long term goals? Why Kellogg? What other universities are you applying to? Why them? Why not Stanford… etc? What is your main choice? Tell me about your leadership experience? Tell about a time you had to convince Read more

Published: March 13, 2012

Harvard MBA Admissions Interview Questions: Round 1 / Adcom / Off-Campus Hub / Admitted

Very friendly and down to earth interview with an admissions committee member. The interview started off with some small talk and then she explained that she would ask me a series of questions and would be looking at her watch frequently and might have to cut me off, she never ended up cutting me off and was taking notes but also looked at me and had good eye contact as I spoke. Below are the questions I received: What did you think of the Harvard application process? Anything that we should change? What was your rationale for choosing X undergrad Read more

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 Read more

Published: March 8, 2012

Columbia MBA Admissions Interview Questions: Regular Decision / Alum / Off Campus

Here are the questions that I remember: walk me through your resume what are your long term goals? how was moving to [non-U.S. city] describe a time that you faced a challenge tell me about your time as an undergrad why did you choose to work at [current employer]? what other schools are you applying to? why Columbia? It was pretty straightforward…the “ethical dilemma” question didn’t come up. Neither did the “strengths & weaknesses” question, so I felt pretty good about it all. The whole thing took an hour, but I spent probably 20-30 minutes asking her questions about Columbia Read more

Published: March 7, 2012

USC / Marshall MBA Admissions Interview Questions: Round 2 / Adcom / On Campus

I arrived 10 minutes early and gave a copy of my resume to the assistant (I was asked to bring a copy). She checked me in and brought the resume to my interviewer to let my interviewer know I had arrived. The interview started a few minutes after my appointment time in the interviewer’s office and went for about 35 minutes. The atmosphere was relaxed. As an aside, there was a same-day info session and class visit, but I had done those while preparing my application so I opted out. My interviewer (Adcom) had pre-read my application. A blend of Read more

Published: March 6, 2012

Ross MBA Admissions Interview Questions: Round 2 / Off Campus / Alum

I had two interviews: one with an alumnus and one with a staff member at the Tauber Institute. I submitted my application on Jan 4 and received an invitation to interview on Jan 17. My first interview was over the phone with a Tauber staff member. It lasted about 30 minutes and was extremely conversational. The questions she asked were: Why Ross? Why Tauber? What are your future career goals? Her questions and my answers took up fewer than 15 minutes, and the rest of the time was spent addressing my questions. I asked about MAP, the interaction of Tauber Read more

Published: March 6, 2012

NYU / Stern MBA Admissions Interview Questions: Round 2 / On Campus

I applied R2 and had my interview about a week ago. The admissions staff was very friendly and give you a free T-shirt when you show up. The questions that were asked of me: Tell me more about your creative essay Do you have family or friends in NYC? or in the industry you’re looking to pursue? You visited Stern before? What did you think? So why do you want to change careers? Why specifically that career change? How do you feel that you’ve overcome assumptions people had about you? What is your driving force? How would you be involved Read more

Published: March 6, 2012

NYU / Stern MBA Admissions Interview Questions: Round 2 (Admitted) / On Campus / Adcom

My NYU Stern Interview experience was very friendly and conversational. I actually felt like we spent an equal amount of time evaluating if I was a good fit for Stern and vice versa (see #3 below) My questions consisted of: Walk me through your resume Please tell me about your three greatest achievements. Detailed follow-up questions The interviewer then talked about all of the great things Stern was doing in social entrepreneurship (my field of interest) and the new Dean’s vision. She asked me if I had heard about some of these specific programs (explaining the programs when I didn’t Read more

Published: March 6, 2012

NYU / Stern MBA Admissions Interview Questions: Round 2 / On Campus / AdCom

I interviewed during the afternoon of March 5th, sandwiched between a class visit and tour of the Kaufman Center. Applied January 14th and invited to interview on March 1st. My interview was with an assistant admissions director, who was familiar with my application and essays. It was a very casual discussion about my interests and why Stern is the right choice for me. First question was in regards to an interest from my resume. Tell me how you ended up in your first job out of undergrad. Tell me about something you love about what you currently do at your Read more

Published: March 5, 2012

NYU / Stern MBA Admissions Interview Questions: Round 1 / On Campus / Adcom

I went to campus and this was my second time there. I was a reapplicant from last year that got waitlisted. The atmosphere was friendly, and the tone of the interview was very conversational. My interviewer had read my application (I think from both years) and was just asking the basic questions of what changed, why Stern, etc. I did a lunch with a current student afterwards but I would recommend doing this first because those are v. laid back and a good way to get info. Questions asked: Why MBA? What are your career goals? Why Stern? (a lot Read more

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November 23, 2024 7:37am ET

Accepted to NYU Stern

Round: Round 1

Received via portal on November 21, 2024

GPA: 6.42

GMAT: 760

Program Type: Traditional Two-Year

Target Career: Technology

Application Location: India

November 23, 2024 12:41am ET

Accepted to SMU Cox

Round: Round 1

Received via email November 22, 2024

GPA: 3.6

GRE: 331

Program Type: Traditional Two-Year

Target Career: Marketing

Application Location: Delta, Nigeria

November 22, 2024 11:09pm ET

Accepted to NYU Stern

Round: Round 1

Received via portal November 22, 2024

GPA: 3.65

Program Type: One Year Program

Target Career: Technology

Application Location: NY

Note:

Submitted on 9/1, interview invite on 10/8, interviewed on 10/30. No phone call but portal updated on 11/22 around 1pm est. No scholarship..

November 22, 2024 8:42pm ET

Accepted to SMU Cox

Round: Round 1

Received via phone November 22, 2024

GPA: 3.9

Program Type: Traditional Two-Year

Target Career: Consulting

Application Location: Mississippi

November 22, 2024 8:34pm ET

Rejected at SMU Cox

Round: Round 1

Received via portal on November 21, 2024

GPA: 3.89/4

Program Type: Traditional Two-Year

Target Career: Consulting

Application Location: Asia

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