sravangmat wrote:
Hello all,
I've received an interview invite today from Simon. I am yet to schedule the interview. I submitted my app on Jan5th.However, one of my recommenders could not submit the recommendation on time. He submitted it on Jan 17th.On Jan 18th, I,ve received an email from Simon stating that my app was complete and fwded to the adcom for review. Since then it has been a long wait and all of a sudden today I received the interview invite from Simon school.
May I request ou guys to share your interview experiences which could help me in preparing for the interview.
BTW, I have few more interviews scheduled in the month of March. Oxford university scheduled on March 12th. Georgia tech on March 16th. Received interview invites for Boston University & McCombs school of business( Yet to schedule ). Now, Simon is also added to this list.
Regards
Sravan
Are you going to visit any school or would you interview with all of them via skype? I'm very excited to hear that you are interviewing with Oxford.
I interviewed with Stefanie Bascom, admissions director, via skype. The interview lasted about 35 minutes. The question I didn't quite expect to hear was how I'm going to finance my studies. For some reason she asked what was the population of the city I live in and the region in which that city is located. There were many follow-up questions. How have you heard about Simon and why Simon. Career goals. Tell me about yourself. If you are coming from unusual profession, I noticed, the starting question would be tell me about yourself, rather than walk me through your resume. There was a question like why should we take you, though formulated in a gentle form. From what I learnt, if you have a strong profile, a bad interview performance, be that poor english communications skills or bad home work, while wouldn't get you dinged, may substantially reduce the amount of financial aid. The school is sometimes very fast to reply after the interview. I didn't encounter any difficult or unusual questions. But if you are going to touch upon such areas as finance or accounting you would rather be better prepared to talk in details.