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Hey guys

I applied last year to wharton, was interviewed, waitlisted and eventually didnt make it. Got an interview again this year and hope to make it in this time. Any body else interviewing on Wed Nov 12 in the afternoon? Happy to link up in advance. Heres the mistake most people make so please dont make the following:

1) Dont be that guy that talks a lot. If you see that one or two people hogging the discussion, they are not getting in
2) Dont be that person either who doesnt contribute. the trick is finding the balance
3) Rather than think about getting admitted as an individual, think of the team. Generally, teams get admitted, so its less of you competing with others in your team and more of your team competing with other teams. The last point is crucial - its very important all of us approach this as a team based discussion

Please PM me if you have questions about the process - from what I understand, it appears the process is same as last time
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I applied last year to wharton, was interviewed, waitlisted and eventually didnt make it. Got an interview again this year and hope to make it in this time. Any body else interviewing on Wed Nov 12 in the afternoon? Happy to link up in advance. Heres the mistake most people make so please dont make the following:

1) Dont be that guy that talks a lot. If you see that one or two people hogging the discussion, they are not getting in
2) Dont be that person either who doesnt contribute. the trick is finding the balance
3) Rather than think about getting admitted as an individual, think of the team. Generally, teams get admitted, so its less of you competing with others in your team and more of your team competing with other teams. The last point is crucial - its very important all of us approach this as a team based discussion

Please PM me if you have questions about the process - from what I understand, it appears the process is same as last time

Thanks for your your tips above :) so it seems Wharton is weeding out the noisy ones and the quiet ones, leaving a kind of middle ground as the students. Interesting.

btw, do you think attendance of the TBD reception is crucial? I probably won't be able to go to it...

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Guys - help on creating the mywharton mba login please? No one faced the same issue as me?

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Date: November 10, 2014. Thursday

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Event: Webinar - A Tale of Three Applicants by Jon Frank (Admissionado Founder and HBS Alumnus)

In this webinar, jointly organized by Admissionado and GMATClub, Admissionado Founder Jon Frank (HBS) is gonna show you how a banker, an Indian IT guy, and a chicken farmer managed to get into a top Business School. Find out how to play up your strengths, neutralize your weaknesses, and defeat the admissions dragon – whether your profile is totally typical or out-of-the-blue. To ensure the best possible event, space is limited to 100 participants, so sign up now! These seats are going to go quickly!

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Also invited to interview :)

I was dinged (after interview) last year and the site status update was a shambles then as well. I'm sorry for you guys who got a ding that way today.

Congratulations to my fellow invitees!


Congrats, TopDog. Do you have any advice from your experience with the group interview last year?

Hi. I think your "strategy" for the TBD really depends on your personality. I imagine you've already got experience working in groups, so just try to forget about the admissions staff/fellows and be yourself.

Personally, I focused on my intro story (kept it short, <1 min, and spoke third or fourth so a lot of ideas has been covered by then). Once we got started, I tried to be forthcoming with ideas (conscious of not being silent, but also tried not to interrupt others) and move the process on a bit, by consolidating the ideas to that point and encouraged others who had been a bit quiet or interrupted by others.

I've spoken with quite a few people who went through the process. It is quite passive-aggressive - no-one is going to rip your face off and everyone nodded and agreed with each other - so it's all a bit unnatural.

Most important for me was to arrive early, you will likely be in the reception with people who will be in your group, so get talking to them, find out a bit about their background and build up a rapport so it seems a bit more friendly and natural in the actual TBD.

I didn't get an offer last season though, so maybe I'm not the best person to ask :)
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Anybody doing TBD in Singapore??
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Hi guys.

I was admitted to Wharton / Lauder last year (LatAm, consulting) so maybe sharing a bit of my experience with the interview process can help someone out there. Assuming the process hasn't changed...interview was with an admission's officer.

Group dynamics: very hard to tell what really matters. I, for instance, made a huge dumb mistake during mine (literally said something that made no sense at the time, but quickly came back saying nevermind, it doesn't make sense, back to previous point) and it all worked out. I do think that you should try and "embody" a role play, be it the leader, the conciliator, the challenger, etc. Take a stance instead of being lost and going with the flow. Don't show off, it's not necessary. Be yourself on how you behave and push yourself to take a stance on the topic being discussed. In my group, "the leader" was admitted, the challenger wasn't and the conciliator was. That was not the case for other groups so...hard to tell.

Blind interview: DONT FORGET YOUR RESUME. Or you'll find yourself begging for the recepcionist to find a printer before you're called back to interview. It was literally 5 minutes and two questions: "do you think you were yourselve in the interview and why?" and "tell me anything you want me to know about you". So (i) good to be yourself so you can defend how you behaved in the group dynamics and (ii) I suggest you have a good elevator speech mixing your (QUICK) story recap with the 5-7 things you want to leave an impression on. It's really a monologue so it's good not to sound boring, pedantic, etc and also to flow a logic storyline. It's 5 minutes to make a (sticky!) good impression. Practicing may help. In my case, I spoke about my life trajectory and how it connects to my professional goals finishing with a "why" I thought Wharton was the place to go given everything.

Lauder was such an easygoing nice interview with a current student. We spoke about international experience, passions, a few classic "tell me a situation..." questions, but that was it. It was more of a conversation that anything else.

Hope that helps!

Cheers

Really helpful, thanks, much better than the explanation I gave above!

I think the on campus interviews are with Admissions Fellows (it sounds like yours was done off campus in that case?). I went to Philly and met the Admissions Fellows instead.

It shouldn't make a difference but I always think the dynamic is a bit different between a "professional" admissions director and, essentially, a current student.

Hope to be joining you on campus next year then! :)
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I think the on campus interviews are with Admissions Fellows (it sounds like yours was done off campus in that case?). I went to Philly and met the Admissions Fellows instead.

It shouldn't make a difference but I always think the dynamic is a bit different between a "professional" admissions director and, essentially, a current student.

Off campus indeed. No idea on the difference to actual students...good point. I assume everyone is well trained, as much as possible, to level interpretation.

Arriving early to interact with the group is also a good tip to connect with potential classmates and build some sort of connection, but, honestly, you're only going to see their behavior when the real deal starts. Consulting-wise (pls no prejudice, just common beliefs!), if it's a Mck or a BCG guy, you can kind of tell how they're likely to behave, but it's still a guess and I wouldn't count on it to build a strategy 15 minutes before the TBD. Know the topic, know your position, have your set of arguments and then dive in open to whatever outcome just making sure you take a stance. To be more clear, my TBD involved a new class for Wharton and one of the pillar was social innovation I think. So I brought my NGO experience and point of view. Another guy brought social entrepreneurship ...and etc. In the end, instead of the best individual suggestion, the group proposition was a mix of everyone's idea.

I def agree no one will rip you, after all, we're all grown ups who know are being assessed on behavior. It's almost too fake it you frankly ask me. Everyone strives to be so polite to make sure they're not cut off. But it's part of the deal. I REALLY believe you should be as close to your natural self as possible...but that's just me.

On the one-on-one, many people take it for granted and forget to prepare eventually getting caught off-guard without structured, well thought answers. Don't do that. One-on-one matters as well as the TBD.

Good luck all!
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Anybody doing TBD in Singapore??

Hi, I am attending TBD in Singapore 13 Nov morning. How about u?
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I'll be doing the TBD in Singapore as well - as long as I'm able to login to mywharton MBA.. Still haven't gotten a password!

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I'll be doing the TBD in Singapore as well - as long as I'm able to login to mywharton MBA.. Still haven't gotten a password!

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Same here I did not get the password either. So i reset the password. Try doing that.
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anyone signing up for nov 18 afternoon?
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I'll be doing the TBD in Singapore as well - as long as I'm able to login to mywharton MBA.. Still haven't gotten a password!

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Same here I did not get the password either. So i reset the password. Try doing that.


thank you! finally worked. doing the TBD on the 12th morning in Singapore
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Posting this bit late, but here is the summary of Wharton Interview invites.

45 Invites reported so far. Congratulations to all those who got invites!!

Just noticed that many applicants who received invites haven't updated their GMATClub profile status yet. This is an appeal to all such members that do update your status so that we can have accurate stats to present in the discussions.

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Preparing for Wharton Interviews for the Class of 2017

In this post, I discuss how to prepare for Wharton Interviews for fall 2015 entry. My post on Wharton’s essays for the Class of 2017, can be found here.

There are two parts to the Wharton interview, the team-based interview and one-to-one interview. Each part can be prepared for. I am assuming anyone who is reading this post has actually been invited for a Wharton interview and has reviewed the official information regarding it.

TEAM-BASED DISCUSSION

I will not disclose the contents of the specific team-based question that Wharton has asked interviewees to prepare. I do know the question and it surprised me that was quite similar to one asked last year for R1. I do provide analysis of the TBD discussion question to my own clients, but will not do that here.

Here are some basic group interview strategies to keep in mind:

1. Be someone who makes clear and effective points in the conversation, but does not dominate the conversation.

2. Don’t be rude to others. Rude jerks are the easiest people to get rid of when evaluating participants in a team based discussion. Stanford Professor Bob Sutton’s No Asshole Rule surely applies here: CLICK HERE TO FIND OUT IF YOU ARE AN ASSHOLE.

3. Listen closely enough to others in order to say something that builds on or reacts against what other people are saying. Refer to what others are saying in order to build consensus. Clients who were dinged last year after interview from Wharton frequently told me that they did not listen enough to others. Those that did seemed to have a better outcome.

4. Try to provide constructive communication that moves the discussion forward to a positive conclusion. Make an effort to include others in the conversation.

5. Don’t be afraid to make a less than perfect point. If you were about being perfect, you will never get enough speaking time and perceived as shy and ineffective in team situations. That will get you dinged.

6. Synthesize and summarize the team’s conversation in order to move the conversation forward.

7. Use hedging language and other forms of consensus building language. Try to avoid being dismissive of the views of others.

8. If you are having difficulty understanding someone because of their accent or because of your poor English listening skills, still engage in non-verbal demonstrations that you understand what they are saying. Non-verbal communication will surely be observed, so if you look confused or frustrated that could be used against you.

9. Smile and show eye contact with other people.

10. Make sure that you don’t slouch in your seat, but are sitting tall and look like a positive and engaged person.

11. Be willing to serve as the group in a functional role: timekeeper, notetaker, or facilitator. Making a contribution is of bottom line importance.

SHORT INDIVIDUAL DISCUSSION (ONE-TO-ONE POST TEAM-BASED DISCUSSION INTERVIEW)

Based on what my clients reported to me and the public reports on Clear Admit for the interviews for 2013 and 2014 entry, the 15-minute one-to-one interview is likely to consist of 4-6 questions, which I have divided into the following two categories. I will obviously modify this section if the content changes once 2014 entry reports become public.

QUESTIONS ABOUT THE TEAM BASED INTERVIEW

It appears that all applicants were asked both of the questions below. Be prepared to provide your feedback on the team-based interview. Assume that this is a test of your self-awareness of group dynamics, an opportunity to explain the role you took in the group, and a chance, hopefully to correct any misperceptions of yourself on the part of the interviewer.

1) How do you think the team-based interview went?

2) Was your behaviour typical of how you work in a team? / Was your behavior in the Team-Based Discussion representative of the way you typically act in group settings?

How I prepare my clients for this part of the interview: I can’t really do that because it is based on what actually happened in the interview. The only thing I can do is make sure that my client realizes that they will be asked such questions and that they should be mindful of the role that they performed in the group. For example, if the interviewer perceives you, as say, overly reserved or overly aggressive, you need to be ready to discuss that issue.

TYPICAL INTERVIEW QUESTIONS (Assume 2-4 such questions)

For a more extensive list of Wharton 1-to-1 interview questions, see this post.

This is the standard part of the interview. If you are doing more standard interviews, it will be easy to prepare for this part. For advice on more standard interviews, please see my MBA Application Interview Strategy. I highly recommend reviewing your resume and Wharton essays as part of your preparation. You should surely be able to explain why Wharton in particular is the ideal place for you to study. You should have 1-2 questions available. If you are interviewing off-campus, you should have questions ready for an admissions officer. If you are interviewing on-campus, you had better be prepared to have questions ready for both an admissions offer and a 2nd year student.

Do you want to highlight anything in your application?

Introduce yourself

Discuss your career progress

Tell me about a time when you worked in a group in which everyone did not agree and how did your team resolve the situation?

What is your post-MBA goal?

Why MBA?

Why Wharton?

Do you have any questions for me?

Anything you want to add?

How I prepare my clients for the individual interview: I would typically ask my clients these questions in a mock interview. It would not be completely realistic because I would go over all the above questions just to make sure that my client was covered for all the above topics. If we were preparing for more standard interviews (Booth, Columbia, Kellogg, Haas, etc.), it might not really be necessary to go over this part of the interview for Wharton. For more about my interview services, please see https://www.adammarkus.com/services/.

-Adam Markus
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I applied last year to wharton, was interviewed, waitlisted and eventually didnt make it. Got an interview again this year and hope to make it in this time. Any body else interviewing on Wed Nov 12 in the afternoon? Happy to link up in advance. Heres the mistake most people make so please dont make the following:

1) Dont be that guy that talks a lot. If you see that one or two people hogging the discussion, they are not getting in
2) Dont be that person either who doesnt contribute. the trick is finding the balance
3) Rather than think about getting admitted as an individual, think of the team. Generally, teams get admitted, so its less of you competing with others in your team and more of your team competing with other teams. The last point is crucial - its very important all of us approach this as a team based discussion

Please PM me if you have questions about the process - from what I understand, it appears the process is same as last time

Thanks for your your tips above :) so it seems Wharton is weeding out the noisy ones and the quiet ones, leaving a kind of middle ground as the students. Interesting.

btw, do you think attendance of the TBD reception is crucial? I probably won't be able to go to it...

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I don't think I'm attending the reception. It's the difference between taking 3 days off versus 1 day. However I'm a bit concerned that it may seem like Wharton isn't a top choice for me since I haven't visited campus either.....
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