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Yeah and it's not just Indians. No one in my area which is a pretty big business hub with lots of applicants has gotten an assignment either.

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That's a good sign though. MUCH better than having had a couple folks interviewing while you don't. I went through that last year

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For those ones with interview invites, if you were offered an interview invite with an alumni, how responsive were they?

It's been 5 days since I've sent him an email and yet, no response. Tried calling him today and it went straight to voicemail...
Should I contact the admissions team right away or give him the benefit of the doubt and wait 2 more days?

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Mine responded in a couple of hours. Really depends on the alum IMO. I would give him the benefit of the doubt and wait till the 1 week deadline has passed before contacting admissions.

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I reached out to the alum right after I got the email from Kellogg and he didn’t respond. I called him 3 days later and it went to his VM so I left a VM. He then replied in a few hours after the VM. I would try leaving a message or send another follow up email. And if you still dont hear anything after a week, email Kellogg.

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Agree these are people who have lives outside of this process so sometimes they may get wrapped up and not have time to respond. Just provide gentle reminders and if after a couple failed attempts and a few days later still nothing contact admissions. I had to email a few times because my interviewer was out of the country partying haha.

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Just saw an Indian invite on livewire. I guess it has started. Please report here when you get invites - everyone and especially folks from the subcontinent.

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Troll bro!

Sure? Wow this season will not let me rest!

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Sure? Wow this season will not let me rest!

We already had someone from Delhi report an interview earlier this month. Briefintro username here.

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For the 1Y program - Yes. Seems strange to me that it’s been 2-3 weeks and no one from this place has heard back yet. Well 2-3 more weeks left I guess.

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Technically Kellogg says you will receive your interview assignment 4-6 weeks after the application due date. It's only been 3 weeks. So it seems to me that the majority of assignments have not been released yet.

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Hi everyone, I’m new to gmat club. I read through this entire post but didn’t see anyone talking about on campus interviews. Did no one opt for that?

I applied R1, interviewed on campus on 10/3. Just curious if anyone else did. For what it’s worth, I felt like the interview went really well. Best of luck to you!

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I have one coming up on 28th. Was your interview with adcom. Mind sharing some of the questions that were asked?

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I have one coming up on 28th. Was your interview with adcom. Mind sharing some of the questions that were asked?

Yeah it was adcom. I’ll post up my questions when I get home from work, have them written down.

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I have one coming up on 28th. Was your interview with adcom. Mind sharing some of the questions that were asked?

Yeah it was adcom. I’ll post up my questions when I get home from work, have them written down.

Questions for my on campus:

First one was a request to walk them through my resume. I have some tips for this one.
Don't read from your resume and don't repeat bullet points. Try to focus on what you learned at each stage, or what you took away from it.
Be intimately familiar with your resume so you don't have to look at it, but hit all the major milestones: college, first job, promotions, etc.

They then asked why now? Your resume should be the arrow for this question so I would reference your experience and the next steps and why an MBA gets you into that next part of your path.

Why Kellogg? I applied for MMM, but she didn't ask why MMM directly so I ended up adding in my why MMM to the tail end of why Kellogg. She seemed pretty happy with the specificity of my answers here. This is a gimme question for nearly every school so it's OK to sound practiced/rehearsed.

Short term goals and backup plans. Lots of people want to work for Google, but obviously only a select few get in. I heard some stories from Kellogg students about applicants that said MBB or bust and that was looked upon unfavorably because it doesn't show a realistic, thought out plan. It doesn't make schools look good if their graduates don't accept positions because they're not the big named firms.

Long term goals. Pretty straight forward.

Biggest professional achievement. I think a person should approach this in a couple of ways. Definitely explain the impact of your achievement to the overall company. Definitely talk about what you learned about yourself and about your goals with this achievement. Try and loop nearly all your questions back to why this program and an MBA are the RIGHT fits for you.

Greatest strength and weakness. I would have 3 top of each practiced for Kellogg. Students that have done interviews told me that sometimes they ask for greatest strength and then top 3 weaknesses or vice versa because everyone only practices one. For your weakness, be genuine. It helps show them you have self awareness.

Describe a difficult team/leadership situation and how you handled it and what the outcome was. This will vary person to person. Again, try to show good leadership and collaborative spirit in your story and be genuine. If it got worse or didn't go well, explain why and what you learned.

Describe when you faced an obstacle professionally. Again, straightforward.

And finally, what do you feel you bring, uniquely, to Kellogg?

I had actually practiced version of all of these which is why I felt pretty good about it, but your mileage may vary.

I've also heard of applicants that had interviewers that were very friendly and chatty but didn't have much meat in their questions: this is not a good interview.
If this happens to you, try to ask a question to bring the convo back around to Kellogg and you. Strangely, I didn't hear anything like this from any other school's I talked to so it might be a side-effect of Kellogg interviewing so many students.

Hope that helps shed some light!

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Having life is one thing but 5 days is well beyond that no??

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[quote="injineer"]Hi everyone, I’m new to gmat club. I read through this entire post but didn’t see anyone talking about on campus interviews. Did no one opt for that?

I applied R1, interviewed on campus on 10/3. Just curious if anyone else did. For what it’s worth, I felt like the interview went really well. Best of luck to you!

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I have one coming up on 28th. Was your interview with adcom. Mind sharing some of the questions that were asked?

Yeah it was adcom. I’ll post up my questions when I get home from work, have them written down.

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Having life is one thing but 5 days is well beyond that no??

Not necessarily. Consultants/PE/HF/VC people are travelling for the majority of any given week. Be patient and reach out to adcom after a week or a 1.5 weeks and not before. I would not take it kindly if I see multiple emails from an interviewee as your MBA life including recruiting is dependent on you being patient. Impatience will only get you dings in some way or another. To give you an idea, over the past summer, I was working 80-90 hours a week with no clue about what day of the week that was. So if you had reached out to me earlier in the week, it could have easily been missed.

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Having life is one thing but 5 days is well beyond that no??

So true! When working at the client location there are times when you are at a secured location (in terms of network, say banks) and you don't really have time to look at your phone unless someone gives you a call. Also, what many people don't realize is that in general many other people don't take calls at work location (exceptions are there of course! I am talking in a general sense). One week is not too much.

I'd at least give a week+weekend for someone to reply back. If I still haven't got a reply then maybe after 7 days I'd drop a short and polite reminder.

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[quote="pentek123456"][quote="injineer"]Hi everyone, I’m new to gmat club. I read through this entire post but didn’t see anyone talking about on campus interviews. Did no one opt for that?

I applied R1, interviewed on campus on 10/3. Just curious if anyone else did. For what it’s worth, I felt like the interview went really well. Best of luck to you!

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I have one coming up on 28th. Was your interview with adcom. Mind sharing some of the questions that were asked?

Yeah it was adcom. I’ll post up my questions when I get home from work, have them written down.