https://rankings.r.ftdata.co.uk/lib/img/logos/entity/university-of-pennsylvania-wharton Business School Guide: https://gmatclub.com/forum/penn-wharton-103701.html This thread is for the Wharton 2011 Application Year, meaning applicants that are starting School in the Fall of 2011. Please direct all of your questions for this year into the 2012 thread calling-wharton-fall-2012-applicants-113014.html Current Students and Admits, please continue your discussions here: admitted-to-wharton-class-of-2013-thread-107439.html Please use the following form to add your stats to the spreadsheet Form link Edit link: https://spreadsheets.google.com/ccc?key=0ArkyKRSo74XNdHJDT0RoNUFqYWhyQ0c2aVV3TDV2WHc&hl=en&authkey=CPS16ccG Spreadsheet 0ArkyKRSo74XNdHJDT0RoNUFqYWhyQ0c2aVV3TDV2WHc Add your name to the list https://www.wharton.upenn.edu/evolvelearning/assets/huntsman_at_night.jpg MBA Program Application Deadline Decision Release Date Round 1 October 4, 2010 December 17, 2010 Round 2 January 4, 2011 March 24, 2011 Round 3 March 3, 2011 May 12, 2011 The Admissions Committee will release interview invitations on Friday, October 29th and again on Friday, November 5th . Due to the nature and complexity associated with the admissions process there is no particular order in which invitations are released. Also on November 5th , the Committee will release all final admissions decisions to candidates that are not being invited for an interview and therefore no longer being considered for admission . If you are invited for an interview, you will need to complete your interview by Friday, December 3rd . Interviews will be available on campus with second-year Wharton MBA Students who are full members of the Admissions Committee, off campus with alumni, and off campus in various "Hubs" around the world by Admissions staff members. All interview options are equally considered within the admissions process. Essays Required Question (same for first-time and reapplicants): What are your professional objectives? (300 words) Respond to 3 of the following 4 questions: Student and alumni engagement has at times led to the creation of innovative classes. For example, through extraordinary efforts, a small group of current students partnered with faculty to create a timely course entitled, “Disaster Response: Haiti and Beyond,” empowering students to leverage the talented Wharton community to improve the lives of the Haiti earthquake victims. Similarly, Wharton students and alumni helped to create the “Innovation and the Indian Healthcare Industry” which took students to India where they studied the full range of healthcare issues in India. If you were able to create a Wharton course on any topic, what would it be? (700 words) Reflect on a time when you turned down an opportunity. What was the thought process behind your decision? Would you make the same decision today? (600 words) Describe a failure that you have experienced. What role did you play, and what did you learn about yourself? How did this experience help to create your definition of failure? (600 words) Discuss a time when you navigated a challenging experience in either a personal or professional relationship. (600 words) Stats, rankings and other relevant links FT: https://rankings.ft.com/businessschoolrankings/university-of-pennsylvania-wharton BW: https://www.businessweek.com/bschools/rankings/full_time_mba_profiles/wharton.html Career report: https://www.wharton.upenn.edu/mba/your-career/career-trends.cfm Great resource to get questions answered by current students: https://engage.wharton.upenn.edu/MBA/forums/ Quick facts: https://www.wharton.upenn.edu/mba/admissions/quick-facts-and-dates.cfm Wharton vs. Booth: https://gmatclub.com/forum/chicago-vs-wharton-74034.html Previous Threads Class of 2010 Thread - calling-all-wharton-fall-2010-candidates-78775.html Class of 2009 Thread - calling-all-wharton-fall-09-applicants-66548.html Class of 2008 Thread - calling-all-wharton-2008-applicants-50294.html

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CyberC1

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Thoughts about the interview... should we be giving examples of situations that are different from ones we gave in the application essays? Or does it not matter as much since the interviews are blind?

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Given the leaks, I think its best to assume that the interview will be weighted down in terms of determining acceptance / rejection by adcom.

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Given the leaks, I think its best to assume that the interview will be weighted down in terms of determining acceptance / rejection by adcom.

As Sandy suggested we should raise our concerns in the Wharton s2s forum

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I believe wharton should come out and address this. Even if it were to be that knowing the questions is not going to help the applicant or if they are going to add additional questions to tidy up the process, there will be a lot of concerned applicants. I don't think it has been raised in the s2s forums as of yet. If it becomes out in the open no point ignoring the elephant in the room.

As an applicant in R2, it will be interesting for me to see how this interview process will pane out to be when my turn (hopefully) comes.

interesting point about Round 2, they will prob. change the questions, and warn alums not to leak (a lot of good that will do) but then NO ONE BUT AN IDIOT WOULD SIGN UP FOR AN EARLY INTERVIEW. SO THEY WILL THEN FORCE PEOPLE TO TAKE INTERVIEWS EARLY, ETC. AND TURN THIS INTO EVEN MORE OF A POLICE ACTION.
THE HITS JUST KEEP COMING FOR THIS WONDERFUL IDEA.

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what are the 8 interview question?

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what are the 8 interview question?

Any chance of moving the conversation away from asking for interview questions and having people refuse to share?

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what are the 8 interview question?

Any chance of moving the conversation away from asking for interview questions and having people refuse to share?

sorry coudn't resist :-D

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Are there any good books websites to practice behavioral type interviews?

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Sandy, for answers to these interview questions, should we focus on just professional experience, or should we mix in 1 community/volunteer experience? Thanks.

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I have got a problem with scheduling an off-campus interview with alumni. I employed my first search and then I tried to reach one of the alumni from the search. But a day after, when I logged in to my account, I found that the results of my first search were not saved. (the oposite works for Chicago). Is it possible to restore the results of the first search?

The results of my first search were saved and are visible every time I log in. Not sure why its different for you? Might be a technical issue.

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The results of my first search were saved and are visible every time I log in. Not sure why its different for you? Might be a technical issue.

Could you pls specify, in which part of the site you see the information of your interviewer search?

I click on "search" under Events, I select "alumni interviews" and then click on Search again, I check the "I agree" option and click on Continue, and then on the bottom of the next page there are the Search Results where it gives me an option to select one of the interviewers to confirm the interview.

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What have people been bringing with them to on campus interviews? Standard leather folder (a la applying to jobs when you were in college)? Bag of some sort?

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What have people been bringing with them to on campus interviews? Standard leather folder (a la applying to jobs when you were in college)? Bag of some sort?

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Yeah I have the same question although its an alumni interview.. I wonder if its ok to take a leather folder that has my company's name on it. Not like I'm interviewing for another job!?

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Sandy, for answers to these interview questions, should we focus on just professional experience, or should we mix in 1 community/volunteer experience? Thanks.

Some interviewers are going rogue and asking you specify e.g. a conflict w. two or more peeps at work. If the interviewer does not specify, just give the most robust answer you can, interviewer is just a near-robot [the process is designed that way!!!!] who writes down what you say and scores you on a scale e.g. if you addressed issues, took leadership, managed conflict, listed outcomes and made improvments, shaped the outcome, added value, made it easier for others to contribute , etc. etc. A great answer on those points about how you resolved a conflict between PE shops who were flipping Simmons Mattress for the 14th time and destroying the company gets a 4 while a "thin" answer about how you solved a small disupte at a refugee camp about where to house and care for rape victims gets a 2, if there were not enuf conflicts, and all you did was convince one other person that rape victims would be better off living together so they could help each other, and that was what you thought of as the answer, b.c. you had not been prepped, and it just came to mind, and then the robot kept asking you what else, what else, what did you say after the victims were safe, and all you can say is, THANK GOD, which is not what Wharton Robot is looking for, b.c. it did not add value to your dispute settling bullet list, but the Simmons Mattress guy had read this post and came in loaded for bear w. lots of conflicts and some BS about all he did [to help destroy the company].
WAY TO GO WHARTON. for good details on rape of Simmons Mattress, and how to use this for your advantage in the Wharton Idiot Interview see, At Simmons, Bought, Drained and Sold, Then Sent to Bankruptcy ...https://www.nytimes.com/2009/10/05/business/economy/05simmons.html

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lol ^^

I can tell Sandy is somewhat passive-aggressive, w/ a sarcastic cherry on top :wink:

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lol ^^

I can tell Sandy is somewhat passive-aggressive, w/ a sarcastic cherry on top :wink:

huh, what is the passive part???

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So i understand people's reluctance to post the interview slides/questions here. Any chance someone can PM a link or something?

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I have my interview in 2 days time and I am just trying to ignore the fact that some people might be knowing the questions beforehand. I am just going to be myself and face the interview the way I would if I didn't know about this whole change of process.

After all, I am assuming the wharton adcom is smart enough to pick the right candidates and if they are not then I anyways don't want to be in their school :-D

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ps: The truth is that I am just trying to calm my nerves as I don't know the questions

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So i understand people's reluctance to post the interview slides/questions here. Any chance someone can PM a link or something?

From what I've heard, the slides are likely proprietary training materials that belong to Wharton and are given only to interviewers. I think it would be a breach of ethics for anyone other than interviewers to have those. I don't have them and I don't want them.

A number of sample questions were posted by ppop quoting Sandy - a couple of pages back in this forum. They were also Sandy's thread on Business week. Feel free to search for those.