Interview in Round 1, on-campus with an Admissions Officer (1 hour)
The interview was in the afternoon so I had some time to take a class, talk to numerous students and have lunch with them to talk about the program-this helped significantly for the interview.
The interviewer was very nice. We sat down in her office, each on a chair without a table between us. I found that really intimidating because I could not pull out my resume and have it next to me, it was really just her and me. So know your resume well enough as you might not be able to look at it during the interview. Also pay attention to your posture and gestures as the interviewer can see your entire body throughout the interview.
Questions were fairly typical:
- Walk me through your resume
- Tell me why you chose your undergraduate major? Your school?
- What type of organizations were you involved in while in college?
- How did you choose your first job out of college?
- Why an MBA? Why Kellogg? Goals-we spent a significant amount of time talking about my long-term goals in great details.
- Tell me about your leadership experiences?
- What’s your leadership style?
- If I asked your colleagues about you, what would they say?
This was a blind interview so she had not read my file and she asked questions similar to those in the essays. One thing she did not ask was how I would get involved in the community, so I used the “is there anything else you would like the admissions committee to know about you?” question at the end to talk about that.
Good luck!
