I received an invite to my Yale SOM interview about four weeks after applying for R1. I asked for an alumni interview as i am based in Europe and one was arranged on my behalf by the admissions team.
The interview was very straight forward and the interviewer was extremely friendly. We started off by going through my resume and then i was asked standard questions which i have listed below.
- Why an MBA?
- Why now?
- Why Yale SOM?
- Have you visited the school?
There were other questions on leadership and teamwork examples but since the interviewer has not seen your application and the interview is limited to 30 minutes there is only so much that can be covered. There were no tricks (at least not that i saw!).
