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Calling all Harvard MBA Applicants: 2023 Intake Class of 2025 27 Oct 2022, 07:54
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I Have my interview today haha! excited and nervous at the same time
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All the best!!
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All the best ,
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Haha Thanks! I’ll try
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had my interview recently over zoom. The interviewer was very warm and welcoming. If like me, you also have heard from numerous consultants that HBS interviews are very nerve-racking, I hope the experience will change your mind.
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had my interview recently over zoom. The interviewer was very warm and welcoming. If like me, you also have heard from numerous consultants that HBS interviews are very nerve-racking, I hope the experience will change your mind.
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Alum, student or adcom?

PS. Awesome to hear this! I’ve only heard of nerve-racking interviews with the admissions team, and that was from years ago.… 🤷‍♂️

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Adcom of course, I think HBS interviews are always conducted by adcom

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Hi, thanks for this! Appreciate!
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Hi everyone,

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Can any of the admissions consultants or applicants who got in / rejected post-interview please share what a 'bad interview' look like (i.e., what do the 40% who don't get in post-interview do wrong)? How perfect does the interview responses need to be?

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I think expecting a “perfect” response that sounds “non-scripted” is not reasonable. I’d call interviews where you were not perfect the best kind of interviews!

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I think expecting a “perfect” response that sounds “non-scripted” is not reasonable. I’d call interviews where you were not perfect the best kind of interviews!

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Thanks for taking the time to respond! Agree in an ideal world it's unreasonable but this is HBS haha and I assume the caliber of the 1,800 people at this stage is truly amazing, and yet 40% need to get rejected. So I guess someone has to mess up (even if a mess up in this context is verrryyy marginal) :(
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I interviewed this year as well. My hot take is if you don't do obviously badly, these interviews don't hold as much weight. I think there are already weaker and stronger candidates among the interviewed pools, a good interview won't probably help the weakest candidate among the interviewees, but a great one might. But an average interview won't cause a good candidate to be rejected.
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I interviewed this year as well. My hot take is if you don't do obviously badly, these interviews don't hold as much weight. I think there are already weaker and stronger candidates among the interviewed pools, a good interview won't probably help the weakest candidate among the interviewees, but a great one might. But an average interview won't cause a good candidate to be rejected.
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Agree. Have also heard alumni say that the adcom rely on the interviews to weed out people who have been overly reliant on admissions consultants for e.g. the essay while struggling to communicate verbally in English, etc.
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Thank you both! Veritas25 - did you interview this cycle too? How’d it go?

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Thank you both! Veritas25 - did you interview this cycle too? How’d it go?

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Yep, also interviewed a few weeks back. Identify a lot with your experience - felt like it went quite well overall, mostly conversational atmosphere but of course hard to not overthink things I could have said or phrased differently. But feeling quite alright about it, all questions are motivational/personality-based so in the end your answers can't really be wrong. It's also just one part of a much broader application so don't think it'll really break you (unless you mess up completely).
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Does anyone know if HBS looks over your prior application when you reapply? I know they would have access to it, though is the prior application always looked at with the new one (for example attached to the current years one etc) ? Any insight is much appreciated.

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