I had a Skype interview at 9.00 am in the morning IST. It was a very conversational interview and the panel was really friendly. They really made me feel comfortable. 2 interviewers: Both Females -- One Director of Student Recruitment (F1) and one Administrative Director (F2). Following are the questions: F1. Tell us about your career progression and your current role in your organization. F1. You must have looked at a lot of schools. What makes you want to come to Hong Kong and CUHK in particular? F2. One situational question on Team leadership and Conflict Resolution -- what would be my approach and reaction? F2. Why do you want to do MBA now? F2. Do you have any questions for us? The interview lasted only 22 mins. Tips: 1. Be confident, keep smiling. The interviewers will do their best to make you feel comfortable. 2. Be very thorough with your answer on Why CUHK? and Why HK? 3. Try to think of different situations and be comfortable thinking on your feet. 4. Do keep in mind a few companies that you admire and how do these companies fit in your goal. All the best.

Interviewed on campus with Alexandra (of ADCOM). Interview was conversational and friendly. Questions from ADCOM: Walkthrough of Resume. Why an MBA? Why now? Why Northeastern? Greatest challenges & successes. Some questions specific to my military experience. Questions from me: Percentage of veteran candidates? Asked about the different length corporate residency? Asked a bit about experiential learning? (showed that I read all the offered information) Asked how many candidates stay with their residency after they graduate.

Interviewed with an alum in Seattle. The interview was about 45 mins long and pretty standard. My interviewer used points in my resume as prompts, which no other school had really done but I think is smart. - Walk me through your resume, and how has it led to your decision to pursue an MBA. (I discussed my interest in my current company's strategy shift, so we had a brief discussion about my ST/LT goals before they had a chance to ask) - Why Ross? - I am responsible for a training a lot of new employees, so they asked how I go about training someone new. What do I do to make training easier and faster? - Describe a time at work that put you under a lot of stress, and how you handled it. - How did you help alleviate the stress of your colleagues along the way? - Can you describe a time you made a decision that you regretted? - What would you do differently moving forward to avoid the difficulties you encountered?

Interview with Dan Poston (Asst. Dean) and we had a great conversation. If you read through the interview debriefs, they all discuss a really conversational atmosphere, and I would strongly agree with that. We started off discussing what I am interested in doing with my MBA, which spawned other conversations on what industry I am interested and various trends in the market. I wasn't asked anything out of the ordinary for MBA interviews, but I will say that many of the questions revolved around why Foster and my path fit together - what interests me about the program, how will I contribute to the student body and my project teams, how will I represent the school once I am back in the workforce.

I just finish my interview on Skype with an adcom, would like to share my interview as it might be useful for others, total 25 mins Questions: 1. Can you introduce yourself a bit 2. Can you go through your work experience in your resume 3. As I told her I work in retail business then move to e-commerce company, she followed up with, what do you think is the major challenge and the difference between retail and online business? 4. Tell me about your family business that you mentioned in your essay, what and how were you involved? 5. What are you future goals 6. Why do you choose your program (1 year MBA) 7. Why Babson? and how will Babson MBA help you? 8. How many programs have you applied to? and what will you choose if u get admit to all of your choices? Any questions for me? Good luck everyone!

I had an interview with Fran Johnson. Prior to the interview, I've search her profile and she used to be a risk consultant, hence I'm not afraid to get technical during the interview. The interview question: - Walk me through your resume. My advice is not just read your resume but thoroughly explain what is your main responsibilities - Short term goals. Make sure that MBS will help you achieve your short term goals - Behavioral question. This will depend on your previous answer. Fran realized that I'm a very well structured guy and loves to take control of the situation so she asked me what will you do if you can't control the situation during the consultancy projects? I don't think I answered this correctly though :( The whole interview lasts 51 minutes, I don't ask many questions because I already met one of their representative during his visit to Indonesia. Fran said that an admission committee meeting will be held this week so probably you guys should receive the decision soon.

I interviewed with a member of the admissions committee at Chapel-Hill. I had a really pleasant day, since engaging with office staff to my interview. Everyone was so friendly and welcoming. My interview lasted about 30 minutes and was very behavioral in nature but conversational. Some of the questions I remember 1. Walk me through your resume 2. Why an MBA? Why now? 3. Why UNC? 4. How will you contribute to the community? 5. ST/LT goals? 6. Time where you did not get along with a team? 7. any questions? Like I said, my interviewer was very nice and they just want to see your fit with UNC. You still need to prepare and have succinct answers.

My Cornell Tech R3 Interview: It starts with a presentation of case study(case study would sent to you 48 hours in advance of the interview and took around 5-7 minutes time to present at the beginning) and during the presentation, the interviewer asked several follow up questions about it. In total it took around half of the interview time. The other half was the general MBA interview questions, as far as I could remember: 1. Why MBA (it was asked in different way, the memory is vague, but the core Q was that) 2. During a project if your team are running out of time, what would you do? (I guess because in my resume I had experiences as Project Manager) 3. Experiences about work with cross function team, how you handled it. 4. Any specific area want to work on post MBA 5. Since you mentioned you are already a product manager, already had entrepreneur-like experiences, why you still want to go for MBA and be entrepreneur? (a follow up question about my last answer) 6. Anything want to ask? As the interview date was a bit far from now, so the questions listed above might not be exact what the interviewer asked, however, hopefully it could more or less serve as references. Good luck guys!

My interview was on Skype with a First Year student. Lasted 30 minutes. Very conversational. Here are the questions: 1. Walk me through your resume. Focus on work experience. Current job responsibilities. Company structure/details. Detailed questions about my work experience & projects. 2. Why Babson? What makes Babson unique to you specifically? 3. Why MBA? Why now? 4. Why chosen concentration? 5. Toughest feedback (read constructive criticism) received by peers and managers? 6. Short-term & Long-term goals? How do you plan to get there? 7. Reflection on your GMAT? (My GMAT score is low) Prove your quant abilities. Anything else you've done for quant? Write an update letter soon. 8. What makes you different? 9. Any questions?

My interview was during the polar vortex (-20F) on campus in Chicago, so that created an interesting dynamic and conversation starter! I was interviewed by a 2nd year female student. The entire interview was about 30 minutes. It was incredibly casual, and as soon as we started she emphasized that she would prefer to keep it as casual as possible so the questions were a bit more natural and flowed well with our dialogue. They weren't direct questions since they were leading off from my answers, so I'll try my best to summarize the questions she was asking. Tell me about yourself (I used this to not talk about my resume and more about myself personally). Walk me through your resume (Next four questions were lumped into one answer for me since it was more conversational but I could tell this was what she was interested in). Why MBA now? Why Booth? Short-term/Long-term goals with MBA. What role do you play in a group setting/group project? How would your friends describe you in one word? What do you like to do in your free time? Any questions for her? During our banter, I asked several questions naturally between these "questions" and provided information in that direction as well. Such as, what classes I would like to take. I asked her what her favorite classes were while we were on the "Why Booth?" part. She was part of clubs that I was interested in so we chatted about that heavily. I asked how much interaction she had with FT and weekend/weekday students, etc. I definitely recommend emphasizing why you want Booth specifically and knowing what makes them stand apart from the others, and coming prepared with questions that show a specific genuine interest deeper than just information you can find online about the program. Find a club or professor/class that interests you! Also knowing what you can contribute and provide to their program as well. I specifically spoke with several Booth alumni to find the answers to these questions, and to create a better picture of what student life would truly be like if I were to attend. Overall, I was genuinely interested since this was my number one choice and she was very easy to speak to, so the conversation flowed very well and it was highly enjoyable. My favorite interview from the schools I interviewed at! Good luck, everyone!

Interview debrief Had my interview at 10:45 via Skype. I am a Delhi applicant and I couldn't travel to Hyderabad due to work commitments. Interview started an hour late. Q. Why couldn't you travel to Hyderabad? People usually don't miss such opportunities. My ans in brief: had super important work related meeting last night. Taking a morning flight from Delhi would've been a gamble due to fog, so requested for a Skype interview instead. (I think they understood) Q. What work do you do? Ans in brief: I work at a Healthcare startup where I am managing the company's first equity raise. I am the only one doing this, and the process is usually handled by seasoned bankers. Took them through the entire process of how I identified potential investors, how I got the docs in place, initiated conversations, and got multiple term sheets. Q. What challenges did you face in the entire process Ans in brief: I told them getting the story right is extremely critical and I initially struggled with the same. We started to see great interests from investors as soon as we got the story right. I also told him I faced a challenge while discussing the company's valuation as I have no background in it. I told them I relied on my previous employers' feedback, and a lot of research to get the valuation bit right. Q. Why would previous employers help? Isn't there a brief of confidentiality? Ans in brief: I share extremely good relations with all my previous employers. Gave them instances of how they've proactively helped me whenever I've reached out. Also told them that I had the company's promoter informed whenever I shared any info with anybody outside the company. Q. Asked a couple more questions regarding my work. Work related conversation went on for 40 mins. Q. Why Mba? Technical courses should help to advance in fund raise profiles. Ans in brief: I told them that I intend to have a far broader role than simply being stuck to a finance role. I see myself in a financial consultancy profile, and studying management in detail will be a big value add to my future roles. Q. There was a followup question to this which I don't quite remember. I answered that with decent level of conviction. Q. What is impact investment for you? How did your previous organizations categories investments as impact investments. Ans: gave a generic answer to what impact is. Q. Tell us about your work for stray animals Ans in brief: told them how I have established an unofficial network of volunteers across 6 cities (that I've lived in in the last 10 years). Told them how it all started Nad how we ended up with 70 people working for stray dogs. Q. What inspired me to take it up? Ans in brief: watching my mom get up at 4am very morning to feed the 20 odd dogs around my house. Q. What will the Healthcare company do about the fund raise if I have to leave the organization in a month's time to start my program. Ans in brief: then investment process is in its final stages and the money should hit out account in 30 days. The interview went on for 1 hour. Brief profile: 710 in gmat. 4 years experience in impact investment and 1 year at the Healthcare company raising funds for it.

Skype interview: Overall, very conversational with no out-of-the-ordinary questions. If I recall correctly, I was asked: 1. Current job description 2. Why MBA? 3. Why Kenan-Flagler? 4. What would your supervisor say is your best/worst quality? 5. Proudest accomplishment Probably missing some questions but like I mentioned, it was very conversational so it's difficult to enumerate exact questions.

Had my TBD last week. My advice is simple: Relax. This interview is likely not going to make or break your admission decision. I spoke to more than one current student who said they thought they didn't do well in the TBD and obviously still got admitted. You don't need to dominate the conversation or talk a lot, just be friendly and helpful to the group rather than try to "show off". Just my opinion from talking to current students and committee members: It's not Pass/fail. It's just another snapshot to add to your overall application. If you're a "borderline" candidate to begin with, perhaps an amazing performance might tip the scales in your favor, but this isn't true for everyone. Your GPA/GMAT/WE/Recs, etc matter more than the interview, I think it's something they use to get a better snapshot of who you are, and verify that you're not a jerk, can't speak under pressure, etc. 80%+ of people I imagine are going to have a perfectly fine TBD and their admit/deny decision is going to hinge more on the rest of their app than the TBD. Just my thoughts. Good luck everyone!

I did my interview today on campus.. First of all, the city is wonderful, the campus is too!!! I love this program and I want so much to get admitted..! I do not know how the interview went, I had so many thing that now that I am thinking I did not mention... Why MBA, why now, why Foster? What is the strongest part in your application? Tell me what people at work will say about you? Define success. Define failure. If an MBA was not an option what you would do. What do you think will be the greatest challenge you will face at the Foster program. The biggest professional failure. Which is you leadership style.

I had my interview with Tim near LAX on Feb 26th. I showed up almost 45 mins late - thanks to a couple of accidents and LA traffic. I left San Diego 2.5 hours before the interview start time to be there 30 mins prior but still showed up 45 mins late - there went the first impression and the 45 mins of our one hour slot! I duly apologized, and Tim was very accommodating. The interview lasted about 35 mins with the next guy in line waiting patiently for us to get done. I thnaked that guy who played a good teamball. The interview went fine. Besides the standard questions - why MBA, why now, why Foster, there were quite a few interesting questions. 1) Define success 2) Define failure 3) What will your subordinates say about you? 4) What is the biggest challenge you think that you will face at Foster? 5) The weakness in your application that we should overlook and why? 6) No MBA, what is your plan? and a few more I just can't recollect. As you can see, we were (esp., I was) working under tremendous time pressure, but overall I think it went ok given the initial roadbump (no pun intended). My two cents is that one should personalize the answers to the extent possible even for questions like #1 and #2. Big picture perspective, treat it like a job interview nothing more nothing less. Hope this helps.

I had my interview, we started with stardart questions, why mba, why now why foster etc. then he asked me my definition of success and then my definition of failure. and then asked my biggest professional failure. what classes I am excited about, what will be my weakness at school, how I researched the school etc. all standard no oddball questions. well the point is my interview lasted 15 minutes. can you believe? I ruined the interview in some way. I am expecting a ding actually.

I had my in-person on Friday with the head of the program. If i had known that going in i probably would have been a lot more nervous. But i feel like it went well, and at a minimum i didn't mess up. I had some ideas that he seemed to agree with and that he found interesting, but i couldn't read him very well because he used to be a lawyer. But I'm still hopeful that this is going to happen!

So I had my f2f interview yesterday - I'm R3 applicant, originally waitlisted - and I thought I'd give you guys a run down of how it went. This isn't a blind interview. My interviewer was well versed in all aspects of my application - essays, resume, all those boxes we filled in - so there were no questions about going through an interview or 'tell me about yourself'. It was very laid back and I found it far more enjoyable than the others because he had already reviewed my application. It was really just an easy conversation about why an MBA will suit my future goals, what I could contribute to the incoming cohort, and why I wanted to come back to UW (I went there for undergrad). Good luck to all of you!

I have the interview in Taiwan today. 1. What's your contribution to your company ? 2. Why Foster? 3. What's ur advantages ? 4. What's the thing you have done surprises you the most ? 5, what's the most risky thing you have done ? 6. What can you contribute to Foster classmates? 7. Why MBA? 8. What's your entertainment out of work? 9. Tell me a experience you have conflicts with your boss 10. Some resume questions 11. Do you want me to ask anything you have prepared? 12. Ask Questions Sarah was quite nice and she arrived just on time, so I was worried that I miss ed the interview or went to the wrong place. Hope it helps :)

I had my interview on campus last week. It was really easy and conversational. My interviewer had no notes in front of him but was well versed in my background. The whole experience solidified my desire to be at Foster next fall. Jan. 15 can't get here soon enough.