Had my primary interview today - here's a quick summary: Duration (10-12 Minutes) 1. Elevator Pitch 2. What are your goals after your MBA? 3. What do you want to gain from an MBA? 4. Any question for us? - Asked about Internships and Experiential Learning.

The interview is 35-45 minutes long, and I would assume what they are trying to do is to put a face to the application. They want to know if you believe in what the various essays you have written say, and generally test your commitment and articulation. My interview was along those lines. They did not ask me any questions that would test my knowledge of systems design or anything like that. I also asked them a lot of questions when it was my turn, more to understand what I would need to do to complete the program.

I was second in interview in Meeting Room 1. It was delayed by 45 mins. The panel consisted of three. The panel comprised of 3 members - one from the founding batch of PGPPRO and 2 were ex-PGPMAX like for joker. The interview was primarily based on present job description, challenges faced, leadership examples from life/job, reason for doing the course and management of time for the course. The interview was very interactive and informal.

"My Interview happened in the Kellogg Global Hub's Admission Office and was conducted by an Alumni. She was very friendly, escorted me from the Lobby to the room. We talked a little about the weather and the amazing view of the Chicago skyline from the Global Hub building. When we entered the room, she offered me a seat facing the view :D. Total Duration : a little over 45 mins. I have tried my best to remember and put in the questions in the order below along with approx. time." 1. INTRODUCTION (approx. 5-6 mins) -> She didn't really introduce herself but introduced the entire process - how it was a blind interview and how they will proceed. -> Walk me through your Resume/ Tell me about yourself route 2. RESUME IN DEPTH - chronological order (approx. 10-12 mins) -> Why under-graduation from University of Delhi ? Why that specific College? -> Why that course ? Why that stream/ Major ? Questions related to both my Work Experiences : -> Describe your role ? -> Why this organization and this Industry ? -> Why a startup after under-graduation ? -> What was the difference in terms of role & responsibilities in the promotions I got? (since I got really quick promotions in both the startups). -> She would occasionally also pick up a few projects I had mentioned and ask Why did I decide to work on that project and What did I exactly do ? How was it leading a team ? 3. BEHAVIORAL QUESTIONS - following up with my work-ex, but she mentioned that the answers do not need to be limited to my professional experience (approx. 15 mins) -> Tell me about an impact that you made in your surroundings, industry or on people ? -> Tell me about a time you failed? -> Tell me about a time you worked in a team that was truly diverse ? What was the outcome ? -> Tell me about a time in your life when the situation(s) really tested your resilience and how did you overcome it ? -> What's your biggest growth opportunity at this moment ? -> What would you say is your biggest strength ? 4. TRADITIONAL QUESTIONS (approx. 7-8 mins): -> Why MBA ? (Since I hadn't encountered a Goals question yet, I started my answer with my LT goals and transitioned to why MBA) -> Why these Long-term Goals ? -> What if these Long-term Goals did not come to force ? What was my Plan B? -> What were my immediate post-MBA goals ? -> Why right now ? (she still wanted to know why now was the best time ?) -> Why Kellogg ? 5. Any questions you have for me ? (5 mins) 6. What were my plans for the day and how did I plan to spend rest of my days in Chicago ? Overall - It was a really good conversation. It didn't feel stressful, though it did threw me off a little since we had so many questions ! She took a lot of interest in my work experience. It looked like she wanted to understand my thought process under all my decisions. I could answer all questions after a point because I stayed true to my experiences. She would ask small questions here and there to test the validity of the examples and stories. Fingers crossed and wishing all candidates the best !

The interview is basically knowing about the experiences you had as a professional and the challenges you face. Apart from what is written on your resume, you'd be required to explain why you took that path, what are your plans, and how are you going to achieve it. I got asked about a situation where I failed and what I learned from my experience. They may ask you about your alternate short term plan and how you plan to achieve. Be well prepared with real-life scenarios encompassing these questions because it gets hard to answer these questions if you are caught off your guard.

I got interviewed by Monica Song. Kenan-Flagler doesn't share the interviewer details apriori. Our conversation started on time and lasted for about 45 minutes. It hovered around my experiences and went pretty much in depth. 1. We didn't start with TMAY. Instead, with "What is your post MBA goal"? 2. Why MBA? 3. Why Kenan? 4. Team leading experience? 5. Difficult leadership experience? 6. Some aspect you consider as a perspective-definer/life-changer. Something close to you - personal/professional? I cited my public policy experience. More follow-ups to go in-depth here. There were a couple of follow-up questions regarding what I would explain. It went like a decent conversation. We also discussed my questions towards the end in a decent depth. It was a good experience. Waiting to hear back now!

I interviewed with Grace Kim on 25th. This was pretty much in the middle of the season for R2. Right from the interview invite to the interview, everything was very comfortable. A little bit about me: 4.5 years of product development (software) experience in a very technical field of optical telecom products. Future vision into Cisco. Grace was very conversational and wanted to truly understand what I am doing and why my future plan makes sense. Hence, the questions hovered around the standard questions, but were more like conversation pointers: 1. Tell me about what you do. Here, I mentioned about my work experience and the leadership examples, as she had mentioned about the pointers from the resume. 2. So tell me more about what you do? Was your last organization more of service and this one product? -here I explained with an example of flight service that what is the exact problem we are trying to solve and each of my experiences has been in a product. 3. What is your short term goal? Here I mentioned short and long, for everything to fall into place more obviously. 4. What do you think MBA will give you? Here, it was more of Why MBA reasons. 5. Tell me about a leadership experience. 6. What kind of a leader are you? What will your peers in the discussed leadership experience say? 7. Why Marshall? 8. What is a misconception your colleagues might have about you? Here, I mentioned that they might think I cannot be assertive, but it's more like I am diplomatically assertive, so they cannot tell precisely. So, it might not be a misconception for them, but I have a tool in my armor to make it work. We wound up with little time for me to ask questions. So, I focused on two short questions I really wanted to understand her experience-perspective about. It lasted for about 34 minutes.

My interview was with a trained admissions professional. It was a pretty smooth conversation with no curveballs at all. They're honestly just trying to gauge what kind of person you are, whether you know what you want out of business school, and what you will bring to the table at Stern.The questions I got (off the top of my head) were: 1. Tell me about your current job? 2. Why MBA? 3. Why Stern? 4. Why now? 5. What would your clients say about you (I am in consulting, so this was catered to my profile)? 6. What would you do for fun in NYC? There were some more questions, but they were just follow-up questions based on my responses/profile. I wouldn't go head over heels to prepare, since these are questions you ideally should have thought about while writing your application. The one major piece of feedback I have is to really make a a clear transition from your current experience to where you want to go ideally. This will require some thought for people making complete career switches. For me, I am a career switcher and alluded to soft skills and passions that made me a viable candidate for my post-mba goals. I was admitted under 2 weeks after my interview.

I had requested for a Skype interview as I was traveling. The interview started around 45 mins late and there was a panel of 3 people. Most of the questions were around my entrepreneurial journey and projects undertaken. There were few questions about why I would be looking at the program and if I would have time to devote. They asked me if I had any questions and I spoke to them about the entrepreneurial focus of the program. I guess it went on well but they were completely poker faced so don't know what to expect :P #fingerscrossed Hope this helped. Cheers :)

Questions below- 1. Tell us about your job? 2. Job profile? 3. Why do you want to pursue MBA? 4. Why ISB? The interview was relatively short lasting for just 20 minutes. The panel comprised of 3 members - one from the founding batch of PGPPRO and 2 were ex-PGPMAX. Thanks!

My interview was on campus. The interview was blind so she had only see my resume. The interview was relatively short lasting roughly 25 minutes. 1. Tell me about your experience since undergrad. 2. tell me about your short term and long term goals. 3. Why georgetown? 4. What sort of networking have you done? 5. How do you resolve conflict within a team 6. Greatest strength 7. Two greatest weaknesses 8. How have you interacted with a different culture?

I interviewed during Stern Perspectives Weekend. On the actual day of the interview, I was greeted with a folder with information on the groups I had mentioned in my application, and at the end of the day, I received the t-shirt. They interview a lot of applicants that weekend, so my interview was with an alumna, on campus. I had a great experience, no curveballs, she seemed genuinely interested in learning more about me, my goals and how Stern fit in my plans. The whole conversation lasted about 30 minutes, but it flew by! I really enjoyed Stern Perspectives Weekend, and highly recommend to everyone invited to interview that weekend to attend, it was a lot of fun and it made the whole experience a lot easier! I was admitted a little less than 2 weeks later

Very casual, chill, conversational 30-minute interview. Introduction Interviewer briefed on his/her background, then I briefed on my background. Questions 1. Why MBA 2. Why Anderson 3. Post-MBA career 4. Fall back plan / Plan B 5. What clubs will you join? 6. Tell me about a time when you contribute to your team whether at school or at work Lastly you have about 5 to 10 minutes to ask the interviewer questions. UCLA does offer Skype interviews but i do recommend going there physically if possible. It is nice to see the campus and interact with the students in person.

Straightforward interview. Conversational. 10 questions each about a 90 seconds and then I asked 4 questions. Discussed on the same. 25 mins overall. The questions asked were similar to the ones in the earlier debriefs.

Hi, I've outlined my journey with Rotman below hoping to help anyone who needs it. APPLICATION: I had submitted my application on January 14th for R2 and received an interview invite a week later. My interview was scheduled for the 25th of February. I had almost a month to prepare for the interview. I went through every interview debrief and made a list of all the questions asked. I also went through the 2018 intake forum discussion to get a better insight into the questions (meticulously went through each page, reading every relevant post). As you keep researching, you do realize that they have a common set of questions that they ask every candidate they interview and only a few get questions that are out of the box. Though it's best to be prepared with a set of answers for each question, I do feel you should also go through general interview prep material. I would definitely recommend Rhythm's interview guide which I found here on gmatclub. As he says, it is really crucial to have a story prepared for each element - leadership, community, teamwork, personal failure, strengths, etc. INTERVIEW My interview was with the adcom and on campus. I hadn't been to the campus before this so I reached early just to breath it all in. It was pretty exciting just thinking that maybe this could be it. The interview was around 35-40 minutes long. She asked me pretty much the same questions (the ones I had prepared for from previous debriefs). All in all, it was pretty standard. Towards the end, she asked me if I had any questions for her and this is one section where I feel everyone should have at least 2-3 questions ready - something that's not so obvious and a little different. GETTING ADMITTED: I got a call on March 4th from the adcom that I got in with a scholarship. I was beyond excited and kept thanking her so much. My advice to anyone invited for an interview is to just be confident, research excessively on Rotman (every little thing that sets them apart) and their program and know your resume and your stories very well. Best of luck!

Interview format: Skype with 2nd year student Duration: 30 minutes Interviewer started by introducing themselves, and then the following questions in this order: 1. Biggest achievement 2. Why were you able to achieve what you discussed in 1 3. Why MBA? Why now? 4. Walk through of resume 5. A failure and what did you learn from it? (I talked about a team failure, and learning the importance of planning and prioritization. Interviewer didn't seem satisfied with my answer, and inquired if that is all I learnt.) 6. Significance of the quote I submitted pre-interview and how it would influence my contribution to SOM community? 7. Any thing we didn't cover? (To which I mentioned that we didn't talk about why SOM specifically interests me, so they asked me to go ahead and talk about that) 8. Any other questions? Overall, I do not have a great feeling about how the interview went. The order of the questions kind of threw me off guard. We talked about my background much later in the interview. I should have been better prepared to handle the "sequence" of the questions. I felt 30 minutes was too short for the depth that the interviewer was expecting me to go into. They were furiously taking notes the whole time - which is totally understandable as they have to report it back to the AdCom.

Hello All, Finished with my Skype interview on the 13th of December with Liz Starbuck Greer. Unfortunately, the video had to be cut off view broadband issues and we continued the call over 'voice only'. Looking forward to the decision :) 13th December 18 Time - ~45 minutes via Skype Went not too bad but nothing spectacular as well Questions asked - same as those in the debrief mentioned by aquaria. For any other queries please feel free to PM me. Best Regards and Good luck to all.

I traveled all the way to NYC for my interview. They gave me a Stern t-shirt and a pen to begin with, which was a pleasant surprise. The initial conversation was mostly small talk about the brutal weather in the city at that time, and my flight. As I grew more comfortable she started asking me questions about my resume. This wasn't a blind interview so she already knew my story and my goals. So the questions were mostly aimed at checking the fit to the school- how I would spend my time at Stern, what clubs I would take part in, how I would present myself to the recruiting firms, what would my backup plan be, etc. Of the 4 schools that I interviewed for, NYU Stern was the most conversational. It was pretty chill and 30 minutes flew by. I asked a couple of questions in the end and that was it. Got my acceptance call exactly 15 days later.

Got my interview invite about a week after the 2nd round deadline. My interviewer was super responsive to my emails and mentioned during the interview that most of the alum registered to be admission interviewers because they actually enjoy doing it. As mentioned by other people on this platform, the interview was very casual and conversational. It was conducted in a coffee shop (of my choice). The flow of the interview was natural, starting with a standard WMTYR, then a lot of follow-up questions on what I mentioned in the resume, then based on my past experiences, what do I expect to develop in a (Kellogg) MBA. My interviewer was a very nice person and seemed genuinely interested in what I had to say. My questions were as follows: 1. Walk me through your resume. 2. Why did you choose your undergrad major? 3. Some questions about my undergrad extra-curricular, like what was the organization for, what leadership role I had within the organization, what was the composition of my teams, etc. The interviewer was from my industry ((Corporate) Finance) so he asked a lot of detailed questions about some of the academic clubs I was in (for example, "What valuation method did you use for the pricing research?", etc.) 4. Questions about what did/do I do at my jobs. This went on for more than 30 minutes as he was very specific with lots of follow-up about my companies' organization chart, how many people from other departments do I have to interact with on a weekly basis, what reports do I have to produce and on what frequency. You get the idea. 5. Why did I make some career choices (resign/change function, etc.) 6. He noticed a weakness in my past experience (being in large and mature organizations, I have limited chances for big promotions), so a question about what have I done to compensate for that. 7. What is my post-MBA career goal? How can Kellogg help me to achieve that? Why MBA? Why now? Why Kellogg? 8. Any question for him? Overall the interview lasted for about 1 hour and 15 minutes. Towards the end my interviewer got very excited when I asked some questions about his personal experience at Kellogg ("It was the best 2 years of my life"). He got me very excited about the school. I left the interview feeling pretty good, even though I felt like I could have done a better job on some questions. Well, that's life. Good luck with your interview!

It was pretty simple. Done in 40 mins. Was with an admissions AD. Went through my resume and she followed up with questions around why CBS and now and how it will help. She already had reviewed my application so had knowledge of my background. Mentioned that I should hear back in 2 weeks.