Interviews

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Published: November 16, 2015

Columbia MBA Interview Report: Early Decision / Alum / Off-Campus

The following Columbia MBA interview report was submitted to Clear Admit by an Early Decision applicant. Good luck to them! I recently completed my CBS interview with an alum. It was pretty conversational. She started off asking several resume based questions. She then questioned me about my career goals and how my current work experience aligns with my goals. She then asked me about why I am seeking an MBA, why CBS and how I would contribute to the program. At the conclusion of the interview, she spent several minutes sharing her experience at CBS. Read more

Published: November 16, 2015

Columbia MBA Early Decision / Alumnus / Off-Campus

The following Columbia MBA interview report was submitted to Clear Admit by an Early Decision applicant who was accepted. Congratulations to them! I received an email from Columbia notifying me that I had been selected for an interview, and then another one with a list of six alumni (names and emails) that I could contact to set up an interview with. I was instructed to contact them one at a time, giving each two business days to respond. If I didn’t hear back, I was to move on to the next person. After researching each person a little on Read more

Published: November 15, 2015

UVA / Darden MBA Interview Report: Round 1 / Adcom / On-campus

The following UVA / Darden MBA interview report was submitted to Clear Admit by a Round 1 applicant. Good luck to them! All Darden interviews are blind, so the interviewer has not seen your application or resume. My interviewer was an admissions staffer who explained to me that invitations to interview are determined by two admissions staffers’ evaluations of the candidate’s application, then a third staffer does the blind interview and writes a report that gets added to the admissions file. The last step is for two additional admissions staffers to review the completed file (application plus interview report), Read more

Published: November 13, 2015

How to Ace the Top Five MBA Admissions Interview Questions

Interviews, interviews, interviews...it’s all anyone seems to be talking about these days, and with good reason. Harvard Business School, Wharton, MIT Sloan and INSEAD are just a few of the schools that are busy interviewing Round 1 applicants as we speak. Instead of making yourself crazy with worry, why not buckle down and perfect your answers to the questions you are most likely to be asked? To help you prepare, we’ve scoured our Interview Guides and Interview Archive to compile our very own Top Five list of the questions that most often make their way into MBA admissions interviews at leading schools. Read more

Published: November 9, 2015

The Wharton TBD Prompt: Former Wharton Admissions Staffers Weigh in on How to Prepare

Clear Admit’s LiveWire blew up last week as Round 1 applicants to Wharton shared whether or not they’d received a coveted invitation to interview. Yesterday, Wharton Admissions Director Frank DeVecchis chimed in with his own advice for participants. “Relax and be yourself!” he tweeted. Easy for him to say. Imagining that some of you are less than completely relaxed—especially given that Wharton has changed up its team-based discussion (TBD) prompt this year—we’ve consulted with two experts who formerly worked in the school’s admissions office for their advice on how best to approach things. Read more

Published: November 5, 2015

Northwestern / Kellogg MBA Interview Report: Round 1 / Alum / Off-campus

The following Northwestern / Kellogg MBA interview report was submitted to Clear Admit by a Round 1 applicant. Good luck to them! The interview was very informal. We met at a Caribou Coffee near both of our home locations. I dressed in a full suit, compared to her jeans and T-shirt. She asked the typical questions you would expect from an MBA interview, and asked several follow-up questions to my responses on my short- and long-term goals, and to my response to facing a challenge on a project. I will say that she was clearly reading off of a script, and Read more

Published: November 4, 2015

UCLA Anderson MBA Interview Report: Round 1 / Second-Year / Skype

The following UCLA Anderson MBA interview report was submitted to Clear Admit by a Round 1 applicant. Good luck to them! The interview was with a second year student on Skype. It was very relaxed and conversational. He belonged to the same Pre-MBA field as I do. After giving a brief introduction about himself he asked me the following questions: Tell me something about yourself? Why MBA? Why Now? Why Anderson? What is your leadership style? Based on my answer he asked a follow-up question too. What role do you assume in a team? E.g. Leader, Read more

Published: November 3, 2015

NYU / Stern Executive MBA Interview Report: Round 1 / AdCom / On-Campus

The following NYU / Stern Executive MBA interview report was submitted to Clear Admit by a Round 1 applicant who was admitted. Congratulations! This interview experience was for the NYU Executive MBA Program. Since there is little information about EMBA’s out there, I hope to be able to help other prospective EMBA students. The interview was with the adcom and it was part of the mandatory pre-application process NYU has – where you submit a small questionnaire and most recent resume. The atmosphere was relaxed and in their admissions office. Questions were: 1. Tell me Read more

Published: November 3, 2015

Northwestern / Kellogg MBA Interview Report: Round 1 / Second-year / On-Campus

The following Northwestern / Kellogg MBA interview report was submitted to Clear Admit by a Round 1 applicant. Good luck to them! I had my interview couple weeks ago on campus with a second year student. The interviewer was very nice and started by explaining that she went through extensive training and her input will have as much weight as that of an admissions officer. She took notes during the interview and had a list of questions that she was looking at from time to time. The questions that I got were the following (not necessarily in this order): Read more

Published: November 2, 2015

Clear Admit LiveWire Lights Up with Wharton Interview Invitations

Wharton interview invitations are rolling out as we speak—we’ve already received more than three dozen reports via the Clear Admit LiveWire. It’s too early for analysis, but let’s just say that there are quite a few 700+ GMAT scorers reporting rejection. Here’s what we know from past admissions cycles at Wharton. Historically, Wharton has typically interviewed roughly 40 percent of applicants to the MBA program, though this does vary depending on application volume. Selectivity has generally fallen between 14 percent and 19 percent in recent years, which suggests that you can assume a roughly one in three chance of admission if invited for an interview. Of course, these are all based on past application seasons, and Wharton could change things up at any point. Read more

Published: October 28, 2015

Understanding the MBA Admissions Interview, Part IV

We’ve tackled open versus invitation-only, blind versus non-blind and the newer team-based discussion interview. What’s left? In this, our final post in our MBA admissions interview series, we’re going to take a closer look at a few of the anomalies in the interview arena—special approaches thus far embraced by just one or two schools. Of course, the team-based discussion was itself an anomaly not so many years ago, so these could also be harbingers of the next big thing. Read more

Published: October 27, 2015

UNC Kenan-Flagler MBA Interview Report: Round 1 / AdCom / On-Campus

The following UNC Kenan-Flagler MBA interview report was submitted to Clear Admit by a Round 1 applicant. Good luck to them! This was my first business school interview and I was understandably nervous. I signed up for an interview during Kenan-Flagler’s “open interview” period during which anyone can schedule an interview (no need for an invitation or even having submitted an application). When I arrived they had a current student sitting with us, talking about her experience, which was nice. I was interviewed by a member of the Admissions Committee, who was very professional but not unfriendly. Some of Read more

Published: October 27, 2015

Duke / Fuqua MBA Interview Report: Round 1 / Second-Year Student / On-Campus

The following Duke / Fuqua MBA interview report was submitted to Clear Admit by a Round 1 applicant. Good luck to them! Read more

Published: October 27, 2015

MBA Admissions Mashup: Breaking News from HBS, Value of Alumni Networks, and the Importance Balance

Every Wednesday, we share a round-up of the latest news from admissions blogs at the top business schools. In this week’s edition of MBA Admissions Mashup, we take a look at some breaking news from HBS, the value of a vast alumni network, careers and internships, work-life balance, on-campus conferences as well as some last minute admissions advice. This morning, Harvard Business School Managing Director of MBA Admissions & Financial Aid, Dee Leopold announced that she will be stepping down from her post in May 2016. In the post, she assures all of you Harvard Hopefuls Read more

Published: October 26, 2015

Northwestern / Kellogg MBA Interview Report: Round 1 / Alum / Off-Campus

The following Northwestern / Kellogg MBA interview report was submitted to Clear Admit by a Round 1 applicant. Good luck to them! The interviewer was an off campus Alumnus, graduated from Kellogg in 2008. He has been interviewing students for a long time now. He was very cordial and invited me to his office for the interview. Very pleasant and friendly environment. I was surprised by the friendly and conversational atmosphere. I can definitely say that the students from Kellogg are definitely very straightforward, cordial and want to share their knowledge with anyone they speak with. Started with the Read more

Published: October 26, 2015

Dartmouth / Tuck Interview Report: Round 2 / Second-Year Student / On-Campus

The following Dartmouth / Tuck MBA interview report was submitted to Clear Admit by a Round 2 applicant. Good luck to them! Walk me through your resume. Why an MBA? Why Tuck? Tell me about a time you failed. Probe into past experiences (Deal related question on my resume, how did I achieve work-life balance in IB, what would you tell classmates interested in going into PE (current industry), etc.) What clubs do you want to join at Tuck? What do you wish I asked you? They probe through your background and really try to figure out whether Read more

Published: October 22, 2015

Fridays from the Frontline: MBA Data Guru Analyzes Interview Acceptance Rates

This week, we’ve had the pleasure of connecting with Wayne Atwell, a second-year MBA student at NYU Stern School of Business, who is perhaps better known as the MBA Data Guru. In January 2014, while in the midst of applying to business school himself, he launched a website with that name after crunching numbers to figure out his own chances of getting into the various schools where he had applied. (Atwell is pictured above, far right, with his Stern block and their strategy professor, Sonia Marciano.) In using data to answer his own questions about the MBA application process, he realized he was also answering the questions of other MBA applicants, and so www.mbadataguru.com was born. As for why and how he’s kept updating it, even now amid the hectic pace of a full-time MBA program? “Mainly I like playing around with data,” he says. “I find it fun.” But he’s also gotten to chat with lots of MBA applicants, learned a bit about web development and managed to grow an audience, he adds. “Still, it’s more of a hobby than anything else." Read more

Published: October 20, 2015

U. Chicago Booth Interview Report: Round 1 / Alum / Off-Campus

The following U. Chicago Booth MBA interview report was submitted to Clear Admit by a Round 1 applicant. Good luck to them! This was a blind interview off-campus in a hub city with a 2014 alum. all they had beforehand was my resume. My interviewer was super-friendly, and the location they picked was a lot more casual than I was expecting. 1. Tell me about yourself , then the interviewer told me about themselves. 2. Why MBA? 3. Why Booth/ Why Chicago? 4. What are your career goals? 5. What Clubs Read more

Published: October 18, 2015

Applicant Reports via LiveWire Shed Light on HBS, Chicago Booth Interview Invitations

Clear Admit’s MBA LiveWire has been ablaze with submissions over the past two weeks, prompting us to perform a little data analysis. Though we’ve been hearing from people who’ve applied to a range of schools, the greatest concentration of reports have involved Harvard Business School (HBS) and the University of Chicago Booth’s School of Business, each of which has been busy both issuing invitations to interview and “releasing” candidates from consideration. So what did we find when we charted the results? Let’s take a look at HBS first. Read more

Published: October 12, 2015

Columbia MBA Admissions Interview Report: J-Term / Alum / Off campus

The following Columbia Business School MBA Admissions interview report was submitted to Clear Admit by a J-Term applicant. Good luck to them! Submitted Application: 9/13 Invitation to Interview: 10/5 Interview Scheduled: 10/13 Still waiting to hear back! I received six emails of alumni I could interview with, and like everyone recommended I looked up each one on LinkedIn to see who would be a good match. I looked for someone that had a similar background as me so that we could relate to each otehr, but not the exact same industry so that it wasn’t a Read more

Published: October 11, 2015

MIT Sloan Admissions Committee Shares Round 1 Updates

In case you missed it, MIT Sloan School of Management last week shared updates from its Admissions Committee, which is busy reviewing Round 1 applications. The committee will begin sending out interview invitations in mid-October (that’s this week!) and will continue through November 9th. Every applicant, whether invited to interview or not, will receive an updated status on that date. The interview period is slated to begin October 26th and continue through December 4th, the school reports. Applicants will have the choice between interviewing on campus in Cambridge or in a city near where they currently live. The Admissions Committee plans to visit approximately 15 cities, both within the United States and abroad, to conduct off-campus interviews. “We will give applicants as much notice as possible when scheduling interviews,” reads the website. Read more

Published: October 10, 2015

Columbia MBA Admissions Interview Report: Early Decision / Alum / Off campus

The following Columbia Business School MBA Admissions interview report was submitted to Clear Admit by an Early Decision applicant who has been accepted to Columbia Business School. Congratulations to them! The interview was formal in setting but casual in tone, and lasted about 45 minutes. I met a CBS alum (2014 graduate) at their office, located in downtown Washington, DC, and was asked: Give me your background cliffnotes. Why [current employer]? What have you done there? Immediate post-MBA goals? Why are you seeking an MBA in the context of your longer term career Read more

Published: October 7, 2015

Columbia Business School MBA Admissions Interview: Early Decision / Alum / Off-Campus

The following Columbia Business School MBA Admissions interview report was submitted to Clear Admit by an Early Decision applicant who has been accepted to Columbia Business School. Congratulations to them! My interview was genuinely pleasant. After corresponding with one of the alums provided by the school, we set up the time and date for a couple of weeks after my notification. The interview occurred in a local coffee shop near the interviewer’s office and was very relaxed and conversational. Total interview lasted about 45 minutes to 1 hour. The interview started with my interviewer giving a 5-10 minute overview Read more

Published: October 5, 2015

HBS Admissions Director “Impressed,” “Pleased,” “Proud” and on Schedule

Yesterday, Harvard Business School (HBS) Managing Director of Admissions and Financial Aid Dee Leopold had some glowing things to say about applicants in this year’s first round at HBS. “All of us in Dillon are impressed,” she wrote in a post to her Director’s Blog. “Impressed that you met such an early deadline. Impressed at the variety of ways in which you ‘introduced yourselves.’ Impressed that you have all worked so hard to do well,” she wrote. She and her team, meanwhile, are both pleased and proud to be part of a place that applicants see as “a training ground for aspirational leadership,” she continued. These warm, almost effusive words from Leopold, who is perhaps better known for her direct, no-nonsense style, suggest that the HBS admissions director is indeed quite pleased with the initial responses she and her team received from the new “Introduce yourself” essay prompt that debuted this admission season. Read more

Published: October 4, 2015

Admissions Tip: MBA Interview Prep

With MBA interview invitations from a number of programs already on their way out to Round One applicants, we wanted to offer some more advice on this element of the admissions process. Last week we posted some very basic etiquette information that will help candidates ensure that everything is in order on the big day. Today, we turn our attention to some steps one can take to prepare for the interview itself. Know what to expect. This might go without saying, but MBA interview types and duration vary across programs. For instance, nearly all invited Stanford applicants interview with alumni, while on-campus Wharton interviews Read more

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MBA Applywire

December 25, 2024 2:16pm ET

Applying: Duke / Fuqua, Emory / Goizueta, Georgetown / McDonough, Indiana / Kelley, Michigan / Ross, UNC Kenan-Flagler

Intake Year: 2025

Pre-MBA Career: Strategy consulting

Post-MBA Target Industry: Consulting, Commercial Banking Companies: Bain , BCG , Deloitte , Ernst & Young , KPMG , McKinsey , PWC , Bank of America , Capital One , Citibank , PNC Bank , Wells Fargo

GRE: 323

GPA: 3.48

Years of Work Experience: 6

December 25, 2024 10:52am ET

Applying: Berkeley / Haas, Carnegie Mellon / Tepper, Columbia, Cornell / Johnson, Duke / Fuqua, Indian School of Business, Indiana / Kelley, Michigan / Ross, Northwestern / Kellogg, UCLA Anderson, UT Austin / McCombs, UVA / Darden

Intake Year: 2025

Pre-MBA Career: Supply Chain Management

Post-MBA Target Industry: Other

GMAT: 655

GPA: 3.3

Years of Work Experience: 4.5

Location: India

Post MBA Location: USA

Notes:

Extensive Supply chain experience across Telecom and Aviation industries. Currently working with United Airlines in Supply Chain. Lots of international exposure and experience.

December 25, 2024 7:51am ET

Applying: Duke / Fuqua, UVA / Darden

Intake Year: 2025

Pre-MBA Career: Indian Chartered Accountant, Completed Undergrad and Grad in commernce (A and A+ grade)Fund Controlling - PE(Goldman Sachs) and IIF(JP Morgan)

Post-MBA Target Industry: Asset Management, inc. HF Companies: Blackrock , Goldman Sachs , JP Morgan Asset Management

GRE: 320

GPA: A+

Years of Work Experience: 5.5

Location: India

Post MBA Location: US, UK

Notes:

I got waiver from Darden and applying to fuqua with GRE score. Planning to apply to only two schools in current round 2.
Post MBA goal is to transition career from accounting based role to front end asset management roles.

December 23, 2024 7:48am ET

Applying: Duke / Fuqua, Emory / Goizueta, Georgia Tech / Scheller, UNC Kenan-Flagler, Vanderbilt / Owen

Intake Year: 2025

Pre-MBA Career: Sports

Post-MBA Target Industry: Consulting, Family Business, Other Companies: Accenture , Deloitte

GMAT: 655

GPA: 3.89

Years of Work Experience: 3

Location: South

Notes:

NCAA DI Athlete
Selected for the industry's inaugural women's leadership academy
Variety of volunteer work in and out of my work industry

December 23, 2024 12:19am ET

Applying: Cornell / Johnson, Michigan / Ross, MIT Sloan, UCLA Anderson, UT Austin / McCombs, UVA / Darden

Intake Year: 2025

Pre-MBA Career: Construction & RE (2nd Gen Entrepreneur)

Post-MBA Target Industry: Investment Banking, Venture Capital, Private Equity, Asset Management, inc. HF, Family Business Companies: Citibank , Credit Suisse , Morgan Stanley

GRE: 326

GPA: 3.80

Years of Work Experience: 5

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MBA LiveWire

December 26, 2024 2:34pm ET

Waitlisted at Harvard Business School

Round: Round 1

Received via email on December 09, 2024

GMAT: 770

Program Type: Traditional Two-Year

Target Career: Finance

Application Location: Latin America

December 23, 2024 10:00am ET

Accepted to Northwestern / Kellogg

Round: Round 1

Received via email

GMAT: 695

Program Type: Traditional Two-Year

Target Career: Consulting

Application Location: Taiwan

December 22, 2024 9:40pm ET

Applied to Berkeley / Haas

Round: Round 2

Received via portal

GPA: 3.85

GRE: 339

Program Type: Traditional Two-Year

Target Career: Finance

Application Location: Brooklyn, New York

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

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