Calling all Wharton 2011 Applicants

Sandy, for answers to these interview questions, should we focus on just professional experience, or should we mix in 1 community/volunteer experience? Thanks.

So i understand people's reluctance to post the interview slides/questions here. Any chance someone can PM a link or something?

This interview fiasco is seriously hurting my image of the school

I am interviewing this Thursday with an alumnus and of course will prepare robust answers to each of the questions I've read from Sandy (thanks btw..).

I am debating just laying all the cards out on the table for the interviewer

" I know all of your questions and I have the answers ready.. let me send them to you an e-mail. Let's have a real discussion about Wharton and whether it's right for me."

pleeeze, that is CYA "fine print" post (dated quite recently, and sorta impssble to act on by early interview takers) that could only be fully understood after the Questions leaked and this rukkus began, and it does not say that the interview in TOTO will be 3 questions, out of possible 6, and the same questions will be asked to everyone, and your answers will written down and faxed to adcom by a monkey-scribe. I also love this final tip

The key is to relax, be genuine, and enjoy the opportunity for us to get to know one another.
How exactly? when the interviewer instructs you at the get go not to be spooked by the fact he is not really looking at you, but instead writing down what you say? And what kind of oppty are they offering to get to know a contract worker who does not have an MBA and did not go to Wharton.
No, the key is actually to prepare your brains out, read blogs like this, and create some BS answer which hits their grading grid of McKinsey BS about adding value, providing oppty for others to be heard, facilitating compromise, taking initiative, and also baking cookies and leading the clean up. My model answer, in prev post, was actually BETTER than their grid since it included some reflection on what could have been improved, if you were to do same thing again (no pts for that on their grade sheet), and some ethical considerations about how flexible to be w. legal standards for low cost insulun testing devices.
The entire Wharton culture surrounding this process is one of top-down command and control process and micro management --down to grading guides out to decimal pts, secrecy, standardized instructions, and their MANTRA of metricize everything.
Dont they trust their own friggin adcom members and students to be able to make a sensible and humane acct of who wld fit in class, and whether anyone cannot communicate or speak English?? Apparently not. The document you cite us to is typical Orwellian Big Brother Double Speak, and that is what this process reminds me of. And just who is going to read all those faxes by the way, a warehouse full of notes by donkey alums? really rich.

ha,ha, you're pretty smart, w. a great line of gab, but your silver pen comes in 2nd to silence being golden

Hi,

What is the maximum word count for each essay submitted by a recommender?

For Harvard it's 250 words, but for Wharton I could not find any info about that.

I believe all other threads have members giving details on what questions they were asked.. take a look at recent posts in HBS and Booth threads for example.. not sure why people on this forum seem to suggest they dont want to know or reveal that information or that it is unethical? NYU ad com actually makes it a point to note that students share questions during job interviews as an example of their collaborative community.

I would guess a non-trivial % of people might know, but never admit they know? The first hit when you google "wharton interview" now lists all six questions, so...