Interviews
Published: November 12, 2016
Yale SOM Interview Questions & Report: Round 1 / Second-Year Student / On-campus
The following Yale MBA interview questions and report were submitted to Clear Admit by a Round 1 applicant. Good luck to them! It was the third Interview Super Day (there were 3 in total), around 80 prospective students joined the interview. My interview was scheduled in the morning. The interview lasted 30 mins, but we talked for 1 hour. The questionnaire was listed on a paper held by the interviewer. All the questions were not uncommon. 1. What is your biggest success which means most significantly to you? What is your biggest failure? 2. Tell me one typical day
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Published: November 10, 2016
UT Austin McCombs Interview Questions & Report: Round 1 / Second-year Student / Skype
The following UT Austin / McCombs interview questions and report were submitted to Clear Admit by a Round 1 applicant. Good luck to them! This was a Skype interview with a second-year student at McCombs. He only had access to my resume prior to the interview. The interview itself started about 15 minutes late due to technical issues with Skype. We eventually connected but my video froze about 3 minutes into the conversation. The interviewer elected to continue the interview with my audio only, though I could still see and hear him. Topics: Brief discussion of undergraduate education Walk me through
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Published: November 10, 2016
Harvard Business School Interview Questions & Report: Round 1 / Adcom / Off-Campus Hub
The following Harvard Business School (HBS) interview questions and report were submitted to Clear Admit by a Round 1 applicant. Good luck to them! Just finished my interview at an off-campus hub. Had only one interviewer, very relaxed atmosphere, laughed a lot – extremely friendly. No traps or questions to catch me off guard at all. Asked: How did you get here? (I had a pretty long journey to the interview) Start where it makes most sense Very specific questions to my personal journey, about the business (who came up with his crazy idea, why this particular location and why this particular product) and
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Published: November 6, 2016
Stanford GSB Interview Questions & Report: Round 1 / Alumni / Off-Campus
The following Stanford GSB interview questions and report were submitted to Clear Admit by a Round 1 applicant. Good luck to them! Relaxed interview – we jumped right into content. LOTS of probing on all sorts of tangents, but the interviewer was really friendly and nice the entire time! 1. Example of time when you felt effective. 2. Example of time were you initiated something new / saw an opportunity others didn’t see. [I gave 3 options, and he asked me to elaborate on 2 of those] 3. Example of challenging teamwork situation. 4. Anything else you want to
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Published: October 31, 2016
Washington / Foster MBA Interview Questions: Round 1 / Adcom / Skype
The following Washington / Foster MBA interview questions and report were submitted to Clear Admit by a Round 1 applicant. Good luck to them! I interviewed with an Admissions Director over Skype. The interview started on time and lasted about 35 minutes. Here are some questions I was asked: 1. Walk me through your résumé after graduating from college. 2. Why Foster? 3. Tell me about a time you’ve received criticism. 4. Tell me about a time you saw a problem and addressed it. 5. What do you like to do in your free time outside
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Published: October 30, 2016
Yale MBA Interview Questions Report: Round 1 / Adcom / Off-Campus
The following Yale MBA interview questions and report were submitted to Clear Admit by a Round 1 applicant. Good luck to them! Interview in a hotel conference room. The Adcom member was pleasant and offered polite conversation and explained the interview process before proceeding. The whole thing took exactly 30 minutes. Prior to the interview I was asked to submit a quote that was meaningful to me. Blind interview. Adcom stated that all interviews would be standardized to about 6 questions across all applicants interviewed. Walk me through your résumé. Why an MBA? (for me, this transitioned into my career plans… and
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Published: October 30, 2016
U. Chicago Booth Interview Questions Report: Round 1/ Alum / Off-Campus
The following U. Chicago Booth interview questions and report were submitted to Clear Admit by a Round 1 applicant. Good luck to them! Met the recent alum at a coffee shop. She only had my résumé and it was very conversational for about an hour. Overall it was a very straightforward process. Introduce yourself/walk me through your résumé. Why MBA? Why now? Why not stay at your current company and progress as you have been? – I worked in why Booth here Career Goals? lots of follow-ups trying to poke holes in my reasoning Tell me about a failure? lots of
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Published: October 27, 2016
Vanderbilt / Owen MBA Interview Questions Report: Round 1 / Adcom / Skype
The following Vanderbilt / Owen MBA interview questions and report were submitted to Clear Admit by a Round 1 applicant. Good luck to them! I had a Skype interview with an Admissions Director. She called me promptly at the designated time, not a minute later. These are the questions I remember being asked: What are your post-MBA plans after graduation? Why Owen? If you have 60 seconds to present yourself to a potential employer, what would you say? What are some skill areas you have to strengthen with an MBA? What can you contribute to your peers
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Published: October 25, 2016
U. Chicago Booth Interview Questions Report: Round 1 / Alumnus / Off-Campus
The following U. Chicago Booth interview questions and report were submitted to Clear Admit by a Round 1 applicant. Good luck to them! I had an interview with an Alum at his office. The alum only had access to my résumé, which I had e-mailed prior to my interview. He told me to treat it as a conversation right in the start itself and also explained what the flow of the interview would be like the flow of the questions would be – What is your background, Why MBA, and Why Booth? Start with your background Once I
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Published: October 25, 2016
MIT Sloan Interview Questions Report: Round 2 / Adcom / Off-Campus Hub
The following MIT Sloan interview questions and report were submitted to Clear Admit by a Round 2 applicant who was admitted. Congratulations to them! This interview took place last cycle [2015-2016 admissions cycle]. Interview was with an adcom at a very nice local MBB consulting office. I grabbed a bottle of water in the reception area and waited by myself until the interviewer was finished with the previous candidate. Interview was not as casual as an alumni interview, but was pleasant and not high pressure. I saw the next candidate coming in on my way out and had a nice lunch afterwards to
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Published: October 24, 2016
Impending MBA Interview? Latest Clear Admit Interview Guides Have All You Need to Prepare
The MBA interview—the nail-biting, stomach-churning, sleep-robbing, suit-demanding component of the MBA application process that ties some applicants up in knots—is upon us. But there’s no reason to fret: not with Clear Admit’s in-depth Interview Guide Series as part of your arsenal. Providing expert advice and insider tips on what to expect and how to prepare, these guides are ready and waiting to help you conquer your jitters and ace your interview.
Maybe you’re among the lucky ones who has already received an interview invite from your top choice business school (Harvard Business School and U. Chicago Booth to name a couple)? We’ve also heard—via the MBA LiveWire—that invites are rolling out from places like Columbia Business School (CBS), Cambridge’s Judge School, Duke’s Fuqua School and INSEAD. Of course, with more candidates set to receive Round 1 decisions in the coming weeks, the interview invitation madness has just begun.
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Published: October 24, 2016
Ross Round 1 Interview Invites Coming Out Today
Round 1 applicants to the University of Michigan’s Ross School of Business may very soon know whether or not they snagged an interview, according to a post this morning on Soojin Kwon’s Admissions Director Blog. “The target interview invitation date is Tuesday, October 25th,” read the post. Kwon noted that her team is spending more time than ever before reviewing applications in Round 1, the result of a third consecutive year of rising application volume. Round 1 apps were up 13 percent this year, she reports, even on top of upticks in both 2014 and 2015.
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Published: October 20, 2016
Columbia MBA Interview Questions: Early Decision / Alumni / Off-campus
The following Columbia MBA interview questions report was submitted to Clear Admit by an Early Decision applicant. I was invited to interview with a CBS alumni in my city. After a few email exchanges, we picked a date and place. We met at a coffee shop after work. The alumni dressed in casual clothes and I went with business formal attire. • Your background, walk me through your résumé. • Your post MBA career goal. Why? • Why this goal? Have you been following this industry? How do you envision the technology to be like?
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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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