dilbert99 wrote:
asax wrote:
Congrats to all R1 applicant call-getters! Those who are in waitlist/waiting for a interview Invite R2... all the very best. Hope is something you can hold on to pretty tightly
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R1 applicants - would be really glad if you can post
your profile, country and interview questions along with what you loved about the interviewer(culture or something). Might be of a great help to us all.
Happy new year to all of you!
I'm a US applicant working in the financial services industry. GMAT was 750+ with a 3.5+ gpa from a top US public school.
The interview questions were posted earlier in this thread by someone else. They are quite generic in my opinion (why a MBA? Why Haas?) and I believe that the interview is more a fit test than anything. My interviewer was from Europe and was very laid back. He had participated in a startup competition at Haas so it was interesting to talk to him about that since I have entrepreneurial interests. We had a very good dialogue and I came away feeling that we had connected well. Note that they end the interview at 45 minutes sharp on campus.
Congrats dilbert99, hope to see you there in a few months.
I'm from Israel, male, 31, 670, 3.0 GPA, vast work experience, CPA in big4 accounting firm, and plenty of volunteer work which really impressed them as per the acceptance call from the admissions.
I agree with what dilbert99 wrote above. The interview itself was very easygoing in a coffee-shop for about 45 minutes.
It started by him telling me a bit about himself and then asked me the normal questions:
Tell me about yourself
Why MBA?
Why now?
Why Haas?
Career goals?
What would your friends say your character flaws are? (wasn't prepared for this one)
He then gave me a chance to ask him some questions which I had prepared in advance, both the usual (why MBA, why Haas...) and specific questions about his profession (googled him before) and that's it.
hope this helps, good luck
Congrats on the acceptance! You have the exact type of profile that Haas likes. From my understanding, Haas doesn't care as much about gpa/gmat as say wharton, mit, columbia. I'm really surprised though that you got wait listed at INSEAD, given that they have around a 30% acceptance rate while Haas' is only 13-14% and has probably a stronger applicant pool. I guess it just shows how random mba admissions is.