CyberC1 wrote:
Anyone going to the Social Impact visit day this Thursday?
I heard from a friend who interviewed yesterday that the questions were all behavioral based, and there was nothing related to "Why Wharton, what you plan to do with it etc." Anyone else have have that experience?
According to the Wharton Admissions blog: "Interviews will include behavioral questions. Questions may center on specific examples or detailed descriptions of events, projects or experience that demonstrate how situations you’ve faced in the past have been handled and what you learned from them. Behavioral interviewing assumes that past performance predicts future behavior."
They changed the wording from "may" last year to "will" this year.
Also, below is an excerpt from the interview with Sandy (on Poet and Quant): "The real news this year is that Stanford and Wharton are trending toward behavioral questions versus the more typical ones like ‘why Wharton, why now, why do you want an MBA.’ Of course, it would still help to prepare for those questions as well. But if you are being interviewed by Stanford or Wharton, you should Google behavioral interviews and you’ll get some bad advice about how to answer those questions but at least it will help you get some standard questions. They’re asking people things like, ‘Tell me about a time you worked on a great team, or a bad team, or worked with a great leader. Tell me when you disappointed yourself and what would you do differently if you had to do it again. Tell me about a time you had a conflict with a person and how you resolved it. Tell me about a time you dealt with an ethical issue.’ For some reason, Stanford and Wharton seem to be tilting toward those questions this year."