Was interviewed a second year student from KFBS. The vibe was very friendly. The interview was very conversational. It was made clear at the beginning that this wasn't supposed to be an interrogation. Interviewer had not read any other parts of my application and only had my resume for reference. Background : I worked for a marketing based startup for 2 years and then went on to start my own agency. Questions (Warning : paraphrasing):- 1. Tell me about your first job. 2. Follow-up question about the types of clients I worked with. 3. What did you gain from working at a start-up space? 4. How would your supervisor describe you? 5. Why MBA? 6. Why KFBS? 7. Short-term and Long-term goals. 8. Questions for the interviewer. There were a few minor follow-up questions based on my answers. Spent around 20 mins answering the questions posed by the interviewer, and then 10 mins discussing about my questions to the interviewer. Over-all, a great experience. The collaborative vibe radiates incessantly whenever you talk to any KF student / alum. Had a similar experience.

I had Skype interview with Helen, she is admission director. It is very casual interview, nothing stressful as far as you know your background, story well. She said she already read all my application material, and she also watched the Kira interview video I submitted-this is new starting from this year. She asked me how do I feel about this type of interview format? A few questions I can remember: walk me through your experience, specifically your current job, and why MBA now? What is your ideal work environment? She asked one element of my responsibilities, she wanted me to explain what is that about. She asked how do I feel about my current company? What I am most proud of as extra curriculum? What is other hobby I have? Did you talk with some alumni or student? Then some other small questions I don't remember any more, probably not important either. She was also trying to emphasize a few highlights of the program, like 4 projects in total, internship, good connection with IT companies as this is what I want to pursue. She also mentioned the 2 year post graduate work permit policy that was just announced. Then she gave me some time to ask her questions too, like 15 mins. Her question period is around 40 mins, then my question period is around 15 mins. She said there will be admissions committee meeting on next Monday, so the result should come out soon at the same time with scholarship result. Generally it is just a casual conversation you would have during some networking event.

I entered his office. He asked me to remain very comfortable. He received me very warmly. Asked me to remove my coat if I wanted to. I was really impressed with his reception. DID NOT ASK ME anything on my resume. This alum is very busy( looking at his profile) so its possible that he is too busy to have gone through my resume. Asked my why I chose my branch in engineering. Asked me a few questions about how I manage teams. Seemed OK with my answer. Not that impressed. GRILLED ME very thoroughly on if Fuqua was my first choice. He seemed very intent on knowing this fact. Like “ what will I do if Tuck offers you full tuition and Fuqua doesn’t offer you any scholarship.” Asked me why I volunteer. How do your friends describe you..? Asked me to tell me 5 things from fuqua 25 things list. Listed 3. He was OK with it. Found one common point with him in those 3. WHY MBA…? He was OK with the answer I gave I felt. What is the one quality that a leader should have..? Also how will your friends describe you ( was able to keep this part lighthearted) DID NOT ASK why short term or long term. He was from a background opposite to mine. I sometimes felt he just hated my line of work. He did not even look at my resume thoroughly. I spoke about the consulting club. He was OK with it. I also said the consulting club will help me achieve my short term goal. Seemed cool. Then we spoke about 1/2 hr about what he does. He seemed really interested in me. He wanted me to do well in life. He gave me a lot of tips. A few tips on how to improve my outlook on life. I was so really impressed actually with what we had spoken about. He lastly said I was a good guy and will do well in life. He kept interspersing the interview with things like “Even of you don’t get the final invite, I think you will do well in life”. He expressed some doubts about my age. Another feedback he gave after the interview was that I should have been a little more specific about my long term goal. Not sure if this will be the deal breaker. He did end up liking my long term goal though ( which was why he probably said so). This interview is really a googly. Not sure about anything. He concentrated a lot on behavioural questions. Not a single question from my resume. I repeat. NOT A SINGLE QUESTION FROM MY RESUME.

It started with a technical glitch wherein I could not hear the interviewer and his video kept on freezing. He sent me a link to a Microsoft chat room and then we had the ball rolling. The interviewer was a current second year MBA student. Following was discussed (beware, I do not recall the order): 1. Something about me. 2. Walking through my resume. 3. Any constructive criticism that I received during my career and how it helped me. 4. Challenges I faced in my career. 5. A bad experience in my career. 6. Strongest and weakest part of my application. 7. Why McCombs? 8. What attracted me to McCombs in the first place? 9. How did I conduct my research for the school. 10. My short term and long term goals. 11. Why an MBA? 12. Why an MBA now? 13. White Christmas (thanks to someone). 14. My hobbies. 15. Any questions that I may have. I don't think I have forgotten anything here but I may have. The interview lasted almost an hour. I believe it was good and I hope my enthusiasm and excitement was not too much for the interviewer.

I chose to do interview through Skype since I live in Montreal. I received the interview invitation after 2 weeks I submitted my application. I would say pretty fast. I googled the interviewer, he is like a third party consultant for the school, more like a headhunter. Questions are very much like a job interview: Basic question: why Sauder? What can you bring to the class? What do you want to learn from the class? What do you want to improve? What is your long term goal? Other questions are mostly based on my work experience: what situation you had that you need to resolve conflicts? What misconception your co-workers had about you and how did you eliminate that? It is only 30 mins, mostly he asks questions and then I answered. At the end, he asked if I have anything to share with him? I basically just wanted to ask him questions, but he doesn't really have answers and I understand because he is not really employee of Sauder. One thing is that he started to connect with me from Skype to confirm if I am the right contact for interview 30 mins before scheduled time. Then he asked me if I am ready, we could start earlier rather than waiting for 30 mins and I agreed with him. He didn't really say when you can get an result at the end though, I was trying to ask, but knowing that he is only hired for interview, I would assume he is not familiar on that either. Good luck to everyone.

My interview was with a '07 graduate in his office in Mumbai, India. He started the interview off with a disclaimer that the interview is just another component and that it doesn't hold that much weight and is more like a sanity check. In fact, he said that it shouldn't be called an interview because it makes candidates nervous and it should be treated more like a conversation. Though this put me at ease, I had a peculiar interview experience. The interview focused a lot on the "why" of everything and also looked like he was in a hurry to finish the interview. Here are the questions I was asked: 1)Resume walkthrough: He dug very very very deep into my family background, childhood influences, motivations to choose a social impact path. He also focused a lot on decisions behind key points in my career 2)Short term and long term objectives: He asked clarifying questions wherever I rambled and was unclear in my communication. 3)Why MBA: Since he was from a finance background and lacked social impact knowledge, it was tough to convince him about why I really need an MBA (should've prepared better!) 4) Top 3 schools and Why Booth: Here is where I fumbled because of the way he asked the question. Instead of "which other schools did you apply to?", he asked, "what are you top 3 schools?". That threw me off a little, and I said Yale, Booth, and Fuqua (shouldn't have put Yale first and put two lower-ranked schools alongside Booth!). He was not very sure if Booth fared as well in social impact as Yale and Fuqua. At this point, I pivoted to Why Booth and talked about how Booth's data-driven approach and flexible curriculum and its experiential learning opportunities makes it unique and why I fit in with the program. He was mildly surprised at the level of research I did. 5)Anything else I would want him to know: I just reviewed the highlights of my career and said that I couldn't think of anything else to talk about. 6)Any questions for him: I asked about the one most important learning he had at Booth that he uses to date and what motivates him to volunteer for interviewing candidates. Surprisingly enough he did not ask any leadership questions at all. The interview ended there and we chatted about our hobbies (reading, restaurant hopping, gaming)as he waited for me to finish my tea. I think the overall experience was neutral to mildly positive. I think I would have performed better if I had a good night's sleep and just relaxed. Conversational interviews can be difficult not to ramble in if you don't structure your thoughts thoroughly well before the interview, so I learned that I should structure my answers really well to be more confident about myself. Hope this information helps. Good luck to everyone interviewing!

1. Tell me about yourself and why you choose MiM as your Master Degree. 2. About your essay and resume. (0 exp.) - What did you get from the internship? - Explain your final project, and what you have learned from it? Etc. 3. What is the difficulty of being a leader? **4. Tell me about business news recently. 5. Do you know about Interactive Pedagogy? 6. What type of Track-Specific Elective Modules that you are interested in? 7. What kind of industry that you would like to do for your future career?

I was interviewed in Chennai by an alum (MBA'01) at a coffee shop. I reached 20 mins earlier, and he was just about to finish his previous interview. He called me as soon as he was free, without taking a break. The start of the interview was unconventional. Instead of starting with the generic 'Tell me something about you' or 'Walk me through your CV', he directly asked me what were two things I wanted him to take away about me, from the interview. I thought he was talking about incidents/achievements, but he was looking for traits. I was able to cover the traits with a few examples. Some of the other questions are as follows: (Order may not be correct) 1. Tell me a time when you mentored someone 2. Tell me a time when you were stressed out recently 3. An Achievement at work 4. A failure at work 5. Post-MBA Goals - (this was the link to the generic questions as I'm a Product Manager currently, and my post-MBA goal is also Product Management. 6. Why MBA? 7. Why Ross? My CV included multiple hackathon victories, so he asked me what a hackathon was, and if I had to make something today, with no restrictions, what problem would I choose to solve. After this, he asked me if I had any questions for him. This lasted for about 10 mins. This part of the interview was definitely 'calmer' (for want of a better word). Overall, the interview was a lot of fun. The alum had a lot of personal experiences to share towards the end. Total time was about 35 mins

It straightaway started with "So, Why Smith?" Followed by Goals and backup plans. Then I was asked a bunch of behavioral questions: Tell me about a time when you had to make a decision without having enough info, What is unique about you that's not there on paper, Tell me about a time when you had to work in a team. And finally, How will you contribute to Smith? and Any questions for me? The length was 23 minutes.

Interviewed with an Alum (MBA '01) at a coffee shop in Chennai. I was present almost 30 minutes before him, and we shook hands and got right to it. He mentioned that he had already reviewed my CV and had prepared a set of questions, following which he would be open to questions. His questions, in no particular order - What unique thing about you would you bring to the class? (I noticed this came up in a different form a couple of times) Tell me about a time when you led a team? Tell me about a time you failed to achieve your targets Tell me about a time when you had to work under a manager who you had to adapt your style to Tell me about a time which was stressful for you (given that I have relatively less experience) With only so much of experience, what do you bring to the class? And of course - Why MBA? Why now? Why Ross? Why your specific long term goal? How did you decide on the career path? This was fast paced and I was pretty nervous through this section, so had a few fumbles here and there. He was quite engaged in the conversation though, and made sure to follow up on things which I was not clear enough about. At the end I asked him a few questions and he answered them in detail and at length. Interview lasted around 35-40 minutes.

Hey everyone, here's how my interview for Booth's Full Time MBA went. First of all, I interviewed locally in Mexico with an alumn who graduated only two years ago so there was not much of a gap in age and I believe locals are excited to see more people from their city/country aspire such programs and moreso at their school. The interview was as conversational as it was structured, but he did inquire into my answers. Interview time around 50 mins, this is how it went down: 1) Resume walkthrough; he asked specifics on why I took certain jobs and my impact in different roles. 2) Short and long term objectives. 3) Why MBA and why now? (I felt the why now kind of redundant after my short term goals) 4) Why Booth? 5) Behavioral Qs ("tell me about a time..." or "what would you do...", including topics like leadership, multicultural teams, when things didn't go as expected) 6) Any questions for him? Anyways this is what I recall the most, I felt it went well and actually enjoyed the interview. I wish everyone interviewing best of luck, be calm enough to structure what you want to convey on each question and more importantly be yourself.

Hi folks, I had my interview with Katie Lloyd. It was pretty very much like a conversation. Unlike the interviewer asking questions all along and at the end giving time for our queries, Katie encouraged me to ask questions as and when they come. I'll say the interview can be broadly divided into 3 parts: 1st Part (Resume Based): 1. Tell me about yourself 2. Questions on work exp 2nd Part (MBA): 1. Why MBA? Why now? 2. Why Scheller? 3. How will you contribute to the classroom? 3rd Part (Behavioral): 1. I don't remember exactly, but nothing out of the ordinary. The interview went very well. It looked like they are really interested in knowing about you in detail and are checking to see if you fit at Scheller. All the best!

Hi folks, I had a Zoom interview with Lauren Grainger from the academic affairs team. It was a blind interview and she had already gone through my resume and had some questions on my work exp. 1. I already know your professional achievements, so give a brief overview of your work experience and then tell me why do you want an MBA and why now? 2. ST & LT Goals 3. Why don't you consider working 2-3 more years at your current company (I was working directly with higher mgmt on a project undertaken by chairman) 4. Why Georgetown? 5. Time when you worked in a team and faced a challenge. How did you react? 6. Time when you traveled abroad for work or when you worked in a multicultural setting. 7. Any questions for me? She had mentioned in the beginning that she might take some notes and keep track of time and won't be able to look at the screen at all times so I should not be distracted or discouraged. Interview went on for 32mins. Decision will come on 13th December.

Hi All, Just had my interview at McDonough on Friday and wanted to share it while it's still fresh in my head. My interview was held by a Student Ambassador in the MBA Admissions office. He was a first-year student and literally started in September, so that set a unique tone for the interview. Intro--the interviewer was friendly and warm and made small talk about how my drive was (he knew I was from New York) before we sat down. He then explained the structure of the interview: 25 minutes of him asking questions and 5 min left to answer any that I may have. He was courteous to let me know that just because he's looking at his phone does not mean he wants me to speed up, only that he's keeping track of time overall. Questions-- 1. Tell Me about yourself 2. What are your short term and long term goals 3. Why Georgetown? 4. If admitted, what is the likelihood that you would attend? (I forget the order of these next couple of questions) 5. Describe a time to me when you worked on a team to get something done. 6. What is your proudest work accomplishment? 7. Name a time when you faced adversity and how did you get over it? 8. Tell me about a time when you led a project and it didn't go so well. What would you do differently? 9. What are two of your weaknesses? 10. Do you have any questions for me? Here are the questions I asked him in case anyone was interested: 1. From going from an applicant to an admitted student, what surprised you about the program? 2. Even though you just started, where do you see the program and the school evolving in the future? 3. I'm attending the Flex MBA Preview Day the day after. What advice do you have for me to make it a fruitful experience? 4. So I'll be hearing back on 12/13 then, correct? (And then he mentioned how the school will call you, not email you, if admitted so to keep your phone close to you.) Overall, he let me answer the questions with detail without cutting me off. I could tell that he also was observing my physical responses--posture, hand movements, tone of voice, articulation in telling a story, etc. so I would recommend applicants to practice those things None of the questions were overly complex or complicated. I could've probably given better examples, but I was content with my performance overall.

I interviewed with a recent alumni. It was very conversational and I thought it went well. I was asked very generic questions like why simon, why mba, what my career goals are as well as questions related to my background. I don't think I can add anything new to the existing debriefs out here. Hope this was helpful.

My interview was with Jake Hedgecock, a 2nd year student at Owen. The interview was very relaxed and totally conversational. He was very encouraging. The questions were the usual ones- Tell me a bit about yourself. Why MBA? Why Owen? Difficulties overcome and how did you overcome them? Cross-cultural experiences and a couple more behavioral questions. Hobbies. Any questions for the interviewer

I interviewed with Brent Hoff, a 2nd year candidate, via the online portal earlier today. He was very professional and friendly at the same time. Interview lasted 30 minutes but felt short (could be just me). These are the questions I got asked: 1. Walk me through your resume 2. What was your criteria in shortlisting b schools 3. Why MBA and Why Owen 4. What is one skill you wish to improve through MBA and how will you go about doing that 5. How will you contribute to Owen outside the classroom 6. Experience working in a diverse team 7. One time you were part of a project that failed and why did it fail 8. What other schools did you apply to (Definitely restate your desire to attend Owen because it offers xyz that other schools do not) I am a re-applicant and interviewed last year as well. That time I also got asked about one leadership experience and what I am most proud of. Hope this helps. Good luck to everyone!

"Just finish the interview few minutes ago. Here are some questions. I interviewed with a second year student and he is super nice. 1. Tell me abt yourself 2. Goal 3. Why MBA? 4. Other schools I applied to and my criteria for shortlisting the schools. 5. A project I failed 6. My role in a team 7. When I identify gaps/difficulties and how I overcome it. 8. Experience in a diverse community. 9. What I expect from my peers at Owen. Have to type it right after the interview or I will forget rightaway ^^"

Well, not really good. I have technical problems so it took away few minutes. I felt terrible abt that. 1. Tell me about you 2-3 Explained why I left my jobs ( I did 3 jobs in 4 years) 4. Goals. I gave a bad answer by not being straightforward 4. Why MBA 5. Why Emory 6. What you can contribute ?

On campus with a second year. He introduced himself and then we jumped into the interview. 1. Introduce yourself. 2. Why MBA? 3. What challenges have you faced in your career? 4. What clubs would you want to join at Rice? 5. Why Rice? 6. Why didn't you get a master's degree/CPA in accounting (my undergrad)? 7. Any questions for me? The interview took about 50 minutes. We talked about what his Rice experience has been so far and what he likes the most about Houston.