Interview Questions & Reports
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Published: February 19, 2025
Duke Fuqua MBA Interview Questions & Report: Round 2 / Second-Year Student / Zoom
It lasted for 45-50 minutes. It was conversational. She made comments and shared her point of view on my stories – which show that she really engaged with our conversation. It started with her introduction about herself/ her internship then some typical questions: Tell me about yourself. Why MBA? Why now? Why Fuqua? Then a series of TMA questions: 1. Ethical dilemma 2. Gave feedback to others 3. Miscommunication Then some questions about Fuqua 1. What you wanna do at Fuqua? 2. What team Fuqua mean to you?
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Published: February 18, 2025
Duke Fuqua MBA Interview Questions & Report: Round 2 / Alumnus / Virtual
Interview was a Zoom chat with a local alumnus. Pretty conversational / laid back demeanor. Questions included: (1) Resume walkthrough. (2) Why MBA? (3) Why Fuqua? (4) What do you want to be involved in on campus? (5) When did you run into an obstacle and how did you get past it? (6) Describe a couple leaders you’ve had exposure to and admire. And then thereafter gave me time to ask questions. Time: ~45 minutes.
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Published: February 18, 2025
HBS MBA Interview Questions & Report: Round 2 / Adcom / On Campus
I decided to go to a in-person interview, i went to some classes, had a little tour and was anxiously waiting for the hard-balled questions i was told i was going to get in the interview… To my surprise, they never came. The interview was very amicable with “easy,” sometimes superficial, questions. I had heard of deep questions been thrown at candidates, but I almost got none of those. I can’t seem to make out what this means, knowing that some other candidates did, in fact, get those types of questions and from my understanding that is the norm, and
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Published: February 17, 2025
UCLA Anderson MBA Interview Questions & Report: Round 2 / Second-Year Student / Zoom
I had a great conversation with a second-year student. She asked me the following questions: 1. Tell me about yourself and walk me through your resume. 2. Why Anderson? Why is it the right school for you? 3. What are my career goals and how will Anderson help you prepare? 4. What’s your plan B? How will you manage that in your career search? 5. Tell me about a time you faced a challenge and how you overcame it. 6. Tell me about a time you made a positive impact that you are most
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Published: February 17, 2025
Carnegie Mellon MBA Interview Questions & Report: Round 2 / Adcom / Zoom
Interview was extremely conversational. The adcom was attentive and taking notes and commenting on specific aspects of my answers. She made me feel extremely comfortable and honestly, I enjoyed the conversation. Following were my questions: 1. Tell me about yourself. 2. Why MBA? 3. Why MBA Now? 4. Why Tepper? 5. What do you hope to learn from Tepper? 6. What would you contribute to Tepper? 7. What kind of a role do you play in a team setting? 8. TMAT – Conflict/ you had to convince someone. 9. What drives you/motivates
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Published: February 17, 2025
Carnegie Mellon Tepper MBA Interview Questions & Report: Round 2 / Adcom / Virtual
Very chill and conversational interview. Interview ended in about 20- 25 mins with 5-10 mins to ask questions to the interviewer Tell me about yourself. Why MBA now? Why Tepper? Short term and long term goals? Where are you planning to work after your MBA? How will you learn from your peers and how will you contribute to your community? How do you approach working with different people in the team?
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Published: February 16, 2025
Berkeley Haas MBA Interview Questions & Report: Round 2 / First-Year Student / Zoom
The interview was very laid back and straightforward – Super casual to begin where we discussed a bit about my work and appreciation for the Northern California area (I have family out there). We then started through the traditional questioning: 1. Tell me a bit about yourself. 2. Why do you want an MBA? 3. Why Haas? 4. Tell me about a time when you acted on creating Diversity & inclusion throughout your life. 5. How will you bring that perspective into Haas? 6. Tell me about a time that you encountered a challenge.
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Published: February 16, 2025
UCLA Anderson MBA Interview Questions & Report: Round 2 / Second-Year Student / Zoom
The interviewer was very friendly, but I could tell she had a list on hand and was in a bit of a hurry. No small talk in the beginning. She quickly introduced herself and started the questions. 1. Self-introduction. 2. Career goal? 3. What if things don’t go as expected (plan B)? 4. TMAT you had disagreement with your colleagues/ managers. 5. TMAT you encountered ambiguous project scope. 6. What clubs in Anderson would you like to participate in? Then she left the remaining 5 minutes for me to ask her questions.
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Published: February 16, 2025
Indiana Kelley MBA Interview Questions & Report: Round 2 / Second-Year Student / Zoom
The interview was 1 hour long, although I finished answering his questions in the first half an hour. It was primarily behavioral. He asked me the “tell me about yourself” part and then almost every question following was behavioral. I think he asked for my career goals, but didn’t ask me anything about why MBA, why Kelley, what would I bring, etc. He had a script and he stuck to it. I was prepared for some behavioral questions, but not so many. There were a lot and I can’t remember most, but here are a few I remember: -TMAT
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Published: February 16, 2025
Berkeley Haas MBA Interview Questions & Report: Round 2 / Alum / Virtual
The interview started with some informal conversation and introductions, which naturally flowed into some of the standard MBA interview questions (tell me about yourself, why MBA, why Haas, what are your goals). The conversation felt very genuine and not as scripted/formal as some other interviews. We then did a few behavioral questions – TMA an experience with diversity, TMAT you took a professional risk, TMAT you led a group to consensus/boosted morale, maybe 1 more. There were 10 min at the end to ask questions about Haas, and the whole interview lasted 1 hour. It was a great experience!
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Published: February 16, 2025
Michigan Ross MBA Interview Questions & Report: Round 2 / Second-Year Student / Zoom
Interviewer was very calm. Introduced himself and mentioned that he had already read my resume. After that, he spoke about how he wanted to structure our conversation before proceeding to the set of questions he had prepared. Following were the questions: 1. Tell me about yourself. 2. Why MBA? 3. TMAT I tackled a language barrier (because I mentioned my international work experience). 4. Failure and learning? 5. Who have you spoken with at Ross and what did you learn? After that we spent 20 minutes discussing his Ross experience and the questions I had
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Published: February 12, 2025
CBS MBA Interview Questions & Report: Round 2 / Alum / Virtual
The interview was conducted by an alum and lasted about 50 minutes. I emailed them two days prior with a calendar invite. It started very informal with small talk and introduction (tell me about yourself). The interviewer talked about his background and gave me an idea of the interview structure. (5 mins) He started asking me the following questions. What are you working on at the moment? Why an MBA now? What are your ST & LT goals? Do you have a back up plan for your goals? What about CBS stands out for you? Clubs and classes you will
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Published: February 12, 2025
Texas McCombs MBA Interview Questions & Report: Round 2 / Second-Year Student / Zoom
Interviewer was super friendly. Briefly introduced himself and then asked me following questions: 1. Tell me about yourself. 2. Why MBA? 3. Why MBA now? 4. Why McCombs? 5. How will you contribute to McCombs? After each answer he proceeded to add in his own experiences. After about 25 minutes of discussion, I asked him about his McCombs experience for about 10 minutes.
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Published: February 12, 2025
Yale SOM MBA Interview Questions & Report: Round 2 / Second-Year Student / Zoom
Yale has said it likes to keep these formulaic to reduce bias, and they definitely did so. 30 minutes on the dot, with pretty much the same exact questions that everyone else says that they’ve been asked. – Greatest accomplishment? – TMAT had a disagreement with co-worker. – Post-MBA goals? – Research that led you to choose MBA? – Contribution to Yale? – Submitted quote? – Anything else? – Questions for interviewer? Very friendly, enjoyed getting my interviewer’s perspective on the school.
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Published: February 12, 2025
UCLA Anderson MBA Interview Questions & Report: Round 2 / Second-Year Student / On-Campus
The interview was on campus with a second-year student who had received and read my resume prior to our conversation. She had a set of questions with her from the admissions office. Most of the questions were informal questions about my professional experience and goals. After the structured questions, we chatted a bit more about her experience at Anderson. The entire interview lasted 45-50 minutes. 1. Tell me about yourself. 2. What transferable skills from [non-traditional career path] will help you at Anderson? 3. Tell me about a difficult situation at work and how you handled it?
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Published: February 11, 2025
Michigan Ross MBA Interview Questions & Report: Round 2 / Alumnus / Microsoft Teams
The alum was Class of 2019 and was extremely friendly. Made me very comfortable and the interview was conversational for one hour. Didn’t ask “tell me about yourself” as he had gone through the resume. He directly started with: Why MBA? Why Ross? TMAT when things didn’t go as expected. TMAT when you dealt with ambiguity. TMAT when you faced a setback. TMAT when you worked with people from different background or cross-cultural set up. A bit surprised as the first and third questions were both related to setback/failure. Thankfully I could think of two different instances. At last I
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Published: February 9, 2025
UVA Darden MBA Interview Questions & Report: Round 2 / Second-Year Student / On-Campus
Didn’t get any info about interviewer beforehand. The 2nd-year student told me she’s also non-traditional and all her interviews have been non-traditional students. Blind interview. Everyone is correct – this was an incredibly relaxed interview – just felt like a conversation (students who spoke to adcom also reflected the same sentiment). -Tell me about yourself – no mention of the 5-10mins. I talked the whole time, no interruptions. -TMAT took on a challenge. -TMAT you worked with others with a different background. -ST/LT goals? -Why MBA? -Why Darden? -What do you like
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Published: February 9, 2025
UVA Darden MBA Interview Questions & Report: Round 2 / Adcom / On-Campus
The interviewer was really friendly and it was a relaxed atmosphere. They didn’t take any notes at all, just talked with me. The interview lasted about an hour. They also hadn’t seen my application, not even my resume. That caught me off guard – I knew they wouldn’t have read my application, but thought they would have my resume. So I had to explain a bit more than I had planned. They asked me to talk through my education and career thus far, explaining my why’s along the way. They asked a lot of follow-up questions about my job and
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Published: February 6, 2025
NYU Stern MBA Interview Questions & Report: Round 2 / Adcom / Zoom
The Adcom was very friendly, they started with an introduction and then they asked me to tell them a little about myself, what I did at my job, strengths and weaknesses. However, they asked this question that caught me a bit off guard: Think about leaders you have worked with – what things do you admire about them and what could you learn from them? I have never thought about this question, but I was able to easily respond to it. Then they asked me about my goals post-MBA and recruiting strategies. It lasted exactly 30 minutes, the interviewer left
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Published: February 5, 2025
CBS MBA Interview Questions & Report: Round 1 / Alumnus / Off-Campus
It was very typical and lively. Along with “Why MBA” and “Why this school,” they asked typical behavioral questions related to leadership, problem-solving, and teamwork. There were also two to three questions based on my resume, but no follow-up questions. The last 10 minutes were allocated for me to ask the alumnus any questions I had, and the interview lasted about 45 minutes in total.
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Published: February 5, 2025
Michigan Ross MBA Interview Questions & Report: Round 2 / Alumnus / Google Meet
I interviewed via Google Meet via email after coordinating with my interviewer to select the format. The interview was résumé-based and conversational, lasting about 40 minutes—20 minutes of questions for me and 20 minutes for my questions. The interviewer asked: Why an MBA? Why Ross? Tell me about a time you had difficulties with a project at work. Have you visited other schools you are applying to? What makes you the perfect candidate for Ross? I found the interview engaging and straightforward. The atmosphere was welcoming, and the structure allowed for a balanced conversation. One thing
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Published: February 3, 2025
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