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Published: November 20, 2022

Stanford GSB Interview Questions & Report: Round 1 / Alumnus / Zoom

They seem to match interviewer based on region and industry. My interviewer has similar background with me and knows a lot about my industry. The interview is largely resume-based (the interviewer only has my resume). Interview questions include: Tell me about yourself. More details about the projects you were involved? How do you think about xx industry? Why did you make the career move? What was your thinking process? What’s your long-term career goal? What are your extracurricular involvements? Why MBA? Why Stanford? Any questions for me? I think the questions are pretty standard and the interview is quite friendly. Read more

Published: November 20, 2022

Wharton MBA Interview Questions & Report: Round 1 / Second-Year Student / Zoom

Date of interview: Nov 9 Interview atmosphere: Second-years are casual and friendly. Among the group, there is definitely an effort to be friendly and supportive. However, there is always a hint of competition as expected. Type of interview: Team-based interview followed by a 10-min chat with second years Interview question: Why MBA and why is Wharton the ideal place to do the MBA? Commentary: Team-based discussion went pretty well with robust time management. Everyone had a chance to speak up, but you could see some individuals getting annoyed/upset that their choice of country was not picked. Read more

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Published: November 20, 2022

Wharton MBA Interview Questions & Report: Round 1 / Second-Year Student / Zoom

The interview took place on Zoom with two second-year students. They let us into the room about 10 minutes before the TBD was scheduled to start. There were 6 prospective students participating. We were all American. I actually knew one of the other interviewees, but neither of us let on to the rest of the group that we knew each other. We spent this time with getting to know each other. After 10 minutes, the two second-year students gave us instructions and read us the prompt. Then, they had all of us go around and introduce ourselves with our name, Read more

Published: November 16, 2022

Duke Fuqua Interview Questions & Report: Round 1 / Second-Year Student / Zoom

Pretty friendly second-year 1. Walk me through your resume. 2 Why MBA? 3. Why Fuqua? 4. What will you contribute to Fuqua? 5. What do you know of the Team Fuqua Spirit? 6. Tell me about a time when you helped advance a team. 7. Tell me about a time when you disagreed in a team. 8. Tell me a leadership success story. Read more

Published: November 15, 2022

Michigan Ross Interview Questions & Report: Round 1 / Alumnus / Zoom

I had my interview with a 2019 alum. He was in fact very responsive and quick in setting up time. We scheduled an hour, but when we started he said we will do 30-40 mins of Q/A and then questions for him: 1. Started with tell me about yourself and overview of resume. 2. Short-term and long term goals? 3. Why MBA? 4. Why Ross? why now? Then we jumped to behavioural questions: 5. Time when you didn’t know anything in project and still went ahead. 6. Time when some colleague disagreed. 7. Time when Read more

Published: November 15, 2022

Cornell Johnson Interview Questions & Report: Round 1 / Second-Year Student / Zoom

List of interview questions 1. Walk me through your resume. (I was cut off after a very short amount of time. I only got to mention my undergrad and one of my three jobs) 2. Why an MBA? Why now? 3. What attracts you to Johnson? 4. Do you feel you will be at a disadvantage going into consulting (I’m not sure why they thought this. It’s not my plan. The interview seemed very robotic and all questions were pre-planned rather than questions to learn more about me or expand on what I had said earlier.) Read more

Published: November 14, 2022

Berkeley Haas Interview Questions & Report: Round 1 / Alumnus / On-Campus

I went through an interview day at the Haas campus. There was a lunch, campus tour, student panel, and a team building session with fellow candidates who were there, followed by a reception/happy hour. All in all it was about a 7-hour long day including the interview and a great time meeting fellow prospective students as well as current students! My interview was a standard 45 minute interview with an alumnus in the middle of the events mentioned above. My interviewer was incredibly friendly and took the time to put me at ease before getting into the questions by going Read more

Published: November 13, 2022

NYU Stern Interview Questions & Report: Round 1 / Adcom / Zoom

The interview experience was amazing. First, an icebreaker comment regarding my pick-six. Then, the questions were: i. My day-to-day at my current role. ii. Describe my leadership style. iii. Why an MBA? iv. What are the key aspects you consider to choose a business school? v. Recruitment strategy while at business school & alternative plan. vi. Describe a time when you faced a challenging situation/setback at work? vii. What are the positive things and the challenges of working with me from a perspective of a coworker? The interview took about 25 minutes, and then Read more

Published: November 13, 2022

Berkeley Haas Interview Questions & Report: Round 1 / Second-Year Student / Virtual

Interviewed with a second year, was conversational and the interviewer was very friendly and willing to share own experiences. Started with a brief about the procedure and how the interview will go on and then intro about self. Then the questions were as follows – – Intro – Why MBA? Why Haas? – in same question – Time you took a risk in professional setting. – Time you convinced someone to do something out of their job description. – Anything else you wanted to discuss? – Any Questions? Went on for about 35 Read more

Published: November 13, 2022

Chicago Booth Interview Questions & Report: Round 1 / Alumnus / Zoom

I had a lot of help from Clear Admit, so I thought I might pay it forward. Very nice interviewer. He started by introducing himself. What year he graduated. What he does at his current job. Questions were: – Walk me through your resume. – (Then he stopped me and asked – Who is the biggest player in the industry?) – Tell me more about the AI project you did. – Why MBA? – Why now? – Where did they do their MBA? – What’s your short-term and long-term goal? – Read more

Published: November 13, 2022

Chicago Booth Interview Questions & Report: Round 1 / Second-Year Student / Zoom

It was one of the most difficult interviews I had. The second-year student had 3-4 follow up questions for each of my stories, which really made me think in-depth. It didn’t go well for me. 1. Walk me through your story. – why you made the decisions on some instances. 2. Tell me a time when you had to face challenge. – How did you manage the situation? – What was the result? – What would you have done differently? 3. A situation when you made a decision, but then you thought you could Read more

Published: November 9, 2022

Wharton Interview Questions & Report: Round 1 / Second-Year Student / Zoom

The interview was really straightforward: “I want you to tell my why MBA and Why Wharton.” The student listened to me, not saying a word and asked in the remaining 1’30” if I had any questions. Not much of an interaction. Read more

Published: November 8, 2022

Chicago Booth Interview Questions & Report: Round 1 / Second-Year Student / Skype

The interviewer was a second-year student who did not belong to my target industry. She seemed welcoming and friendly, and made the interview conversational. It lasted about 45 mins in total. It started with her congratulating me on getting to this step and introducing themselves. Questions asked: Walk me through your resume. Why MBA? Why now? ST/LT goals? Tell me about a time you led a team and what your experience was? Tell me about a time you tried to incorporate an external source of inspiration into an actual team project? What 3 words Read more

Published: November 8, 2022

Chicago Booth Interview Questions & Report: Round 1 / Alum / Off-Campus

Pretty informal interview, was 30 minutes long including my questions, was asked the following: -Tell me about yourself. -Why MBA? Why now? -Why Booth? And what specific things are offered for your concentration? -Short-term and Long-term goals? How will you reach them? -How do you plan to recruit for your targeted industry post-MBA? -Any questions for me? I had prepared for behavioral questions, but wasn’t asked any which was surprising. Good luck to everyone! Read more

Published: November 7, 2022

Chicago Booth Interview Questions & Report: Round 1 / Second-Year Student / Virtual

The overall interview was quite conversational. The interviewer ensured on keeping it quite casual throughout. The questions asked were very similar to standard ones; however, in terms of categories, the first was related to your background and purpose, the second was pertaining to behavioral questions and examples, and the third was pertaining to some questions that the candidate has pertaining to Booth and more about Booth. List of questions: Walk me through your resume. Clarity on job switches. Why MBA and Why Now? Tell me about a time when you had to accommodate a divergent opinion from a team or Read more

Published: November 7, 2022

HBS Interview Questions & Report: Round 1 / Adcom / Zoom

I was interviewed by an Adcom member at HBS. The Adcom member was very warm and welcoming and started off by warning me about some internet connectivity issues they were having. The interview went mostly smoothly with a few spikes in the internet so we had to turn off the video feed for a minute towards the end. The questions were very specific to my application, but here are some questions from the interview: 1. Explain what your company does and the technology (I work at a life science start up). 2. Follow up on the technology. 3. Read more

Published: November 7, 2022

Chicago Booth Interview Questions & Report: Round 1 / Second-Year Student / On-Campus

Walk me through your resume with lots of specific follow-up questions on my responsibilities. Why do you want the MBA and why Booth? What is your backup plan if your first-choice industry isn’t hiring? Why don’t you want to go back to your pre-MBA industry? Read more

Published: November 7, 2022

Chicago Booth Interview Questions & Report: Round 1 / Alumnus / Zoom

The interview was with an alumnus, but he was from a different industry than I am. It was an hour long conversation. And honestly one of the most conversational interviews. It started off with him introducing himself, his career trajectory before and after Booth. Then he asked me: 1. About myself (here we connected on our personal stories) 2. My goals (long term & short term) 3. Why MBA? Why now? 4. Ideal team? What role would I see myself playing? (He mentioned Booth’s culture around teams) 5. My leadership experiences 6. A time I Read more

Published: November 7, 2022

HBS Interview Questions & Report: Round 1 / Adcom / Zoom

The interview was conversational, with a member of the admissions committee who had read my entire application and was eager to know about the motivations behind my life’s transitions (primarily professional) and about my industry of work. It was a 30min interview, which maybe went ~1-2min over the mark. The questions she asked were specific to my resume, application and profile: 1. She asked about a social impact organization I was part of at college and what we did there 2. We spoke about the improvement in gender ratio in IITs (Indian Institutes of Technology – premier institutes Read more

Published: November 7, 2022

Chicago Booth Interview Questions & Report: Round 1 / Second-Year Student / Skype

The interviewer (second-year student) put me at ease, congratulating me for making it to this stage and said that this is just to have a conversation to get to know me better. She only had access to my resume. Questions asked: 1. Walk me through your resume 2. Why MBA and why now? 3. Experience leading a team on a project? 4. Tell me about a time when you applied a real-life learning on how teams work to your job (the only question I hadn’t really prepped for). 5. ST/LT goals? 6. Anything else Read more

Published: November 7, 2022

Chicago Booth Interview Questions & Report: Round 1 / Second-Year Student / Zoom

The interview was extremely friendly and conversational. The second-year student was engaged throughout the 60 minutes and was genuinely adding on top of my stories with her own experience at and beyond Booth. It was 50 minutes of questions by the interviewer and the last 10 minutes were spent in her answering my questions. It was very exhaustive and exhausting at the same time. 1. Tell me about yourself. 2. Tell me about a time you had to motivate your team – what strategies/ tools did you use? 3. Tell me about a time you disagreed with someone Read more

Published: November 7, 2022

LBS Interview Questions & Report: Round 1 / Alumnus / Zoom

Interviewer was very friendly and asked a bunch of questions around my work experiences, how I handled conflicts/issues in the workplace, international experience and the standard Why LBS/Why MBA/Why now. There is a presentation portion, which I also found to be straightforward. I was given a topic that was relevant to my industry (tech) and asked to present on it. It really didn’t require any prep and I actually enjoyed this part of the interview. I was asked follow-up questions on my answer. Spent the last 10-15 minutes talking about my interviewer’s experience at LBS. Read more

Published: November 7, 2022

HBS Interview Questions & Report: Round 1 / Adcom / On-Campus

I interviewed with an Adcom and had an observer present. The tone of the interview was conversational, mostly resume-based to begin with and a couple of deeper follow-ups on resume as per HBS’s typical interview style. Nothing was very surprising, although there were two questions that made me think a bit more before I responded. One of the questions had to do with how my client responded to my recommendation as a consultant; the follow-up was, what would I have done as a C-suite executive at the client’s company? The other question was about companies I wanted to join post-business Read more

Published: November 7, 2022

Stanford GSB Interview Questions & Report: Round 1 / Alumna / Zoom

It seems like they run a pretty personal interview-matching process, where I got matched to an alumna who was female, was in the same pre-MBA industry (banking), and currently works in my target post-MBA industry (media). Interviewer only had my CV. Overall very relaxed, was more of a conversation rather than interview. Started quite naturally given the parallels between our experiences: on my background, why I decided to go into banking, why I want to go into media, why MBA. More structured questions included: – Tell me about a time when you put forward an initiative that aimed to Read more

Published: November 7, 2022

HBS Interview Questions & Report: Round 1 / Adcom / On-Campus

The interviewer had no time to spare, and she jumped right into asking me about a failure that I wrote about in my essay. Her questions made it clear that she was well-informed on my entire application, but she had my resume pulled up for reference and asked me specific questions about lines from my resume. At one point I was surprised that she mentioned a very personal detail about herself, and there were also some spontaneous questions as I revealed some jobs I worked during college, which had not been on the resume. The questions were much more broad Read more

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December 22, 2024 1:36pm ET

Accepted to UT Austin / McCombs

Round: Round 1

Received via email on December 16, 2024

GRE: 319

Program Type: Traditional Two-Year

Target Career: Consulting

Application Location: United Kingdom

Note:

$20k merit scholarship offer.

December 22, 2024 12:04pm ET

Accepted to Stanford GSB

Round: Round 1

Received via phone

GPA: 3.7

GMAT: 750

Program Type: Traditional Two-Year

Target Career: Technology

Application Location: Asia

December 22, 2024 4:59am ET

Accepted to UPenn / Wharton

Round: Round 1

Received via portal

GMAT: 730

Program Type: Traditional Two-Year

Target Career: Finance

Application Location: Southeast Asia

Note:

Elated and did not expect it!

December 21, 2024 8:37am ET

Accepted to Duke / Fuqua

Round: Round 1

Received via phone on December 11, 2024

GMAT: 675

Program Type: Traditional Two-Year

Target Career: Consulting

December 21, 2024 2:38am ET

Waitlisted at Duke / Fuqua

Round: Round 1

Received via phone on December 10, 2024

GPA: 3.27

GMAT: 760

Program Type: Traditional Two-Year

Target Career: Finance

Application Location: CA

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