Interviews
Published: October 16, 2016
INSEAD Interview Questions: Round 4 / Alumnus / Off-Campus
The following INSEAD interview questions report was submitted to Clear Admit by a Round 4 applicant who was accepted. Congratulations to them! First interview This was with an alumnus who studied at INSEAD in the 1990s. Arranging the interview was extremely smooth (as he has a PA). After feeling slightly intimidated by the interviewer’s impressive office, I quickly calmed down when the interview started. He seemed genuinely interested in my career path and asked a lot of questions about why I made certain decisions as well as the classic “Why an MBA?” question. There weren’t any unexpected questions. About half of the
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Published: October 10, 2016
Dartmouth / Tuck Interview Questions: Early Action / Second-Year Student / On-Campus
The following Dartmouth / Tuck interview questions and report were submitted to Clear Admit by an Early Action Round Applicant. Good luck to them! My interview was with a second year student who was very polite and nice. She set the stage at the beginning of the interview, noting that it was going to be about 30 minutes and she will ask me a series of questions about my past experiences. The questions were fairly straight forward: Walk me through your résumé. Why an MBA? Why Tuck? What would you get involved in at Tuck? Tell me about a time when you failed After
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Published: October 10, 2016
Columbia MBA Interview Questions: Round 2 / Alumnus / Off-Campus
The following Columbia MBA interview questions report was submitted to Clear Admit by a Round 2 applicant. The interview was at the alum’s place of employment. I was dressed formally and prepared fairly diligently by using personal resources as well as some of the posts found here. When I was given my choice of interviewers, I found that all of the alum offered were recent graduates. My alum was more or less of my age. We ran through some of the typical talking points: Walk me through your résumé. Why B-school? Why Columbia? What I will add to Columbia? Backup plan if I
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Published: October 9, 2016
Northwestern / Kellogg Interview Questions: Round 1 / Adcom / On Campus
The following Northwestern / Kellogg interview questions report was submitted to Clear Admit by a Round 1 applicant. Good luck to them! I interviewed this past Friday AM with an admissions counselor. She was generally very friendly and the tone was quite conversational, although her demeanor was fairly serious – I believe it was because she was trying to stay engaged and take notes at the same time. Being said, I left confident that I said everything I wanted to say, but also not quite sure what she thought of me. Hopefully I’ll hear good things come December 14th. The questions were very
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Published: October 8, 2016
Duke / Fuqua Interview Questions: Round 1 / Second-year student / On-Campus
The following Duke Fuqua interview questions and report were submitted to Clear Admit by a Round 1 applicant. Good luck to them! Interview took place mid-September during the Open Interview period for Round 1 in the Fuqua School of Business. Sat in small meeting room for a very conversational, laid-back interview. It was a blind-application interview with a 2nd year student who had only seen my résumé. Interview questions were as follows: 1. Walk me through your résumé. 2. What three words would your boss use to describe you. 3. Describe a time when you had to convince or persuade others of your perspective.
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Published: October 5, 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 Round Applicant. Good luck to them! The total culture is supportive. For the class visits, there will be current students to escort you, and the professor might be ask you to introduce yourself as well. The school is beautiful (but a little bit cold at night). It takes around 3 hours to drive from Boston and 5 hours to drive from NYC, really far. But save for that, everything was perfect! The admission director even dropped by to say hello to us. The interviewer was nice. The interview was more
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Published: October 5, 2016
Duke / Fuqua Interview Report: Round 1 / Second-year Student / On-Campus
The following Duke Fuqua interview report was submitted to Clear Admit by a Round 1 applicant. Good luck to them! The total feelings about the school and Durham are fine. I especially like the class visit, super interesting! When we were waiting for the interview, the lunch and class visits, there were some current students staying there and chatting with us. Very thoughtful. The interview lasted around 40mins. Questions were: 1. Tell me about your self. 2. Why MBA? 3. Why Fuqua? 4. Some follow up questions in my work. 5. What are the qualifications of a
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Published: October 5, 2016
Duke / Fuqua Interview Report: Round 1 / Second-year Student / On-Campus
The following Duke Fuqua interview report was submitted to Clear Admit by a Round 1 applicant. Good luck to them! I scheduled an on-campus interview during school visit. My interviewer is a second-year student. She was very friendly and out-going and soon found common ground with me since she did an exchange year in my home country. The interview was conversational and the questions were behavioral. The interviewer was also able to ask specific questions regarding my background. Tell me about yourself. Tell me about how your transition from country X to country Y. What was it like? Give me an example of
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Published: October 3, 2016
Columbia MBA Interview Report: Early Decision / Alumnus / Off-campus
The following Columbia MBA interview report was submitted to Clear Admit by an Early Decision applicant who was admitted. Congratulations to them! These interview reports have been very helpful and I would like to give back to the community. My ED interview was in August 2016. I was only given one interviewer to contact and the interview was conducted at the alumnus’s office. Blind interview with résumé only, very conversational. I wore a suit but would have been equally comfortable business casual. Interviewer had a hard stop an hour after our meeting time. We shared our respective backgrounds. I mirrored interviewers introduction format,
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Published: October 2, 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 Round Applicant. I interviewed at Tuck two weeks before officially submitting my application. I flew to Boston from the West Coast and took the Dartmouth coach up to campus. I arrived late so I went to bed after grabbing a bite to eat. The following morning, I hopped on the hotel shuttle to campus and went to the admissions office to sign in. I received a name-badge and I was shown to the waiting room. Right on schedule a second-year student arrived – we introduced ourselves
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Published: October 2, 2016
Duke / Fuqua Interview Report: Early Action / Second-year Student / On-Campus
The following Duke / Fuqua interview report was submitted to Clear Admit by a Early Action Round applicant. Good luck to them! The interview was very conversational, much like everyone has said about it. I liked that it was with a 2nd second year student because the questions came more naturally and it was nice to get a student’s perspective at the end when asking questions. The interviewer greeted me in the lobby and took me up to the interview room. After some small talk, we dove into the interview. The student had a sheet of paper she was using as her guide.
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Published: September 27, 2016
Columbia MBA Interview Report: J-Term / Alumnus / Off-Campus
The following Columbia MBA interview report was submitted to Clear Admit by a J-Term applicant. Good luck to them! I read through all the interview reports here and thought I’d add my experience to this list. I was invited to interview and matched with one alumni (who turned down the request). It wasn’t until I contacted the 3rd alumni that I was finally able to schedule an interview. In total it took 12 days from the interview invite to my interview date. Quite a challenging wait because I was anxious to get it over with as you can imagine. The interviewer started
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Published: September 26, 2016
HBS R1 Interview Invites Will Begin to Roll Out on October 4th
Harvard Business School (HBS) Managing Director of Admissions and Financial Aid Chad Losee took to his Direct from the Director’s blog today to share details about upcoming interview invitations for aplicants who applied as part of Round 1. According to Losee, interview invitations will go out in three batches, on October 4th, October 6th and October 12th.
“Try not to read into which date you hear from us—being invited to interview on October 4 vs. October 12 does not mean you are more likely to be accepted,” he stressed. “We spread out interview invitations to avoid congestion on the interview sign-up pages.”
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Published: September 26, 2016
Duke / Fuqua Interview Report: Round 1 / Second-year Student / On-Campus
The following Duke / Fuqua interview report was submitted to Clear Admit by a Round 1 applicant. Good luck to them! I decided to interview during the open interview period and I’m glad I did. Knowing that I don’t have to wait for an invitation definitely alleviated all of the stress. I showed up on campus at 9am and sat in the admissions waiting area with a bunch of other prospective students and a few first year student ambassadors. I was pleasantly surprised to see how friendly everyone was – it definitely made me feel very comfortable going into the interview later in
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Published: September 12, 2016
Duke / Fuqua Interview Report: Round 1 / Second-year Student / On-campus
The following Duke / Fuqua interview report was submitted to Clear Admit by a Round 1 applicant. Good luck to them! The interview was with a second-year student and it was blind. She described herself as an “advocate” for me on the interview committee. The interview was very conversational. It covered the normal interview questions: Walk me through your résumé. Why an MBA? And what do you want to do after your MBA? Why Duke specifically? What types of things do you do outside of work? What do you imagine getting involved with while at Duke? How would your roommate describe you? What
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Published: September 11, 2016
Columbia MBA Interview Report: Early Decision / Adcom / Off-Campus Hub
The following Columbia MBA interview report was submitted to Clear Admit by an Early Decision applicant. Good luck to them! Interview was exactly as described here by everyone else. We held the interview at his office in a meeting room. It started off as a normal job interview and slowly changed into a conversation. I also felt that he placed a lot of weight on the time that he gave me to ask questions (remember to tailor your questions to the interviewer – no point asking a interviewer who graduated 20 years ago which class to take or how was
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Published: August 31, 2016
INSEAD Interview Report: Round 2 / Alumni/ Off-campus
The following INSEAD interview report was submitted to Clear Admit by a Round 2 applicant. Good luck to them! I interviewed with two alumni separately in the SF Bay Area. The first interviewer was an alumni who had graduated 8 years ago. We met in her place of work and the interview took place in a small conference room. She was very nice and casual and we had a casual conversation over some tea. I had prepared my answers for a dozen questions, but she only asked me a couple: Why do you want an MBA now? Why INSEAD? After that we talked
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Published: August 31, 2016
INSEAD Interview Report: Round 3 / Alumnus / Off-Campus
The following INSEAD interview report was submitted to Clear Admit by a Round 3 applicant. Good luck to them! The interviewer introduced himself quickly. Then he explained that this was going to be more of a conversation. He already had the print out of my resume and the 6 page profile. He then asked me to walk him through my résumé. While I was doing that he asked me a few questions and this walk-through must have taken 8-9 mins. He then asked me my reasons for pursuing MBA at this point of time and also my reason for interest in INSEAD. I
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Published: August 31, 2016
INSEAD Interview Report: Round 2 / Alumnus / Off-Campus
The following INSEAD interview report was submitted to Clear Admit by a Round 2 applicant. Good luck to them! The interview was in an office environment with an alumnus – CEO of a sustainable energy company. The alumnus was very friendly, greeting me, offering coffee and congratulating me on making it so far. The interview questions were in general a combination of casual, relating to life anecdotes, and professional, relating to my career experience/vision. I was asked about the reason I chose my undergrad degree and about my accomplishments at the companies I worked at. One question that I didn’t expect was about
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Published: August 30, 2016
INSEAD Interview Report: Round 2 / Alumnus / Off-Campus
The following INSEAD interview report was submitted to Clear Admit by a Round 2 applicant. Good luck to them! I interviewed with two alumni off-campus in Houston, TX. INSEAD alumni can ask a variety of questions as long as they have full answers to the following core questions: Why MBA? Why now? Why INSEAD Why XXX job after INSEAD? The interviews were very relaxing and I was able to connect instantly with both alums. My first interview lasted 2 hours and my second interview lasted 2.5 to almost 3 hours. Both settings were in a cafe / bar. The
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Published: August 29, 2016
Columbia MBA Interview Report: Early Decision / Alumnus / Off-campus
The following Columbia MBA interview report was submitted to Clear Admit by an Early Decision applicant. Good luck to them! This forum was a great resource in helping me prepare for the interview and get accepted to CBS, and I wanted to submit my experience in order to help others in the future. Where as in previous years, it seemed like the CBS admissions office gives you a list of 6 people to contact. This year, the admissions office only offered one alumnus to contact. We set up the interview in a coffee shop – casual setting, very relaxed format.
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Published: August 29, 2016
INSEAD Interview Report: Round 1 / Alumnus / Off-campus
The following INSEAD interview report was submitted to Clear Admit by a Round 1 applicant. Good luck to them! This report I’m writing is about my second interview with an alumnus who was a partner at an investment banking firm. It was by far the most intense and thorough interview I had experienced, which was a bit of a surprise. In fact, it was so thorough that I wound up having a one hour face-to-face interview and then a follow up 45 min phone interview with him and never got to ask him any questions! The interview took place early in the morning
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INSEAD Interview Report: Round 3 / Alumni / Off-Campus
The following INSEAD interview report was submitted to Clear Admit by a Round 3 applicant. Good luck to them! A few weeks after I submitted my INSEAD application, I was contacted by an INSEAD admission’s officer to schedule interviews with two alumni: an older alumni (10 years post-INSEAD) and a younger alumni (5+ years post-INSEAD). I was instructed to provide each alumni with a copy of my résumé or my completed MBA application form (excluding the motivation essays). Scheduling the interviews with both alumni was relatively straightforward and I was able to schedule both interviews two days apart. I met with the younger
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Indiana / Kelley MBA Interview Report: Round 3 / Second-year Student / Skype
The following Indiana / Kelley MBA interview report was submitted to Clear Admit by a Round 3 applicant who was admitted. Congratulations to them! Background: Indian, Male, almost 7 years of work experience in Telecom projects with 5 of those years spent in Africa, short term goal- product management in technology space, GMAT- 760 Interview Experience: I opened the bullets I had made for my last interview only about half an hour prior to the interview. I was still going through the points I wanted to convey during the interview when the Skype call came and suddenly it was go time.
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Dartmouth / Tuck Interview Report: Round 2 / Second-year Student / Skype
The following Dartmouth / Tuck interview report was submitted to Clear Admit by a Round 2 Applicant who was waitlisted. Interviewed in February by a second year student. It was a very routine and relaxed interview. 30 mins of questions from the interviewer and 15 minutes afterwards spent answering my questions to him about Tuck and his experience. Here’s the order: 1. Walk me through your résumé. 2. Why do you want an MBA? 3. Why do you need an MBA to get to your short-term goal? 4. Why do you want an MBA from Tuck? (Interrupted me
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