Tell me about yourself. Told me to not worry as he was not looking for reasons to dismiss me. Just make sure I would fit well at Fuqua. Asked about my time at university. Describe a project at work. What was the most important things thing you learnt on that project? Another example where you utilised this learning. Qualities of a leader. Most important quality of a leader. Why should a team listen to you if you’re made the leader? An example in your life of failed teamwork. An example where you had to deal with a non cooperative member on the team. How did you manage it? Clubs and activities you would like to participate in at Fuqua. Questions for me. He answered in detail and with examples and nuances. It was more like a conversation. He was very warm and welcoming. Thoroughly enjoyed my interview. Lasted 40mins (30+10 Q/A)

I was interviewed on Friday, at around 10 pm my local time. My Interviewer was very friendly and encouraging, and immediately made me feel at ease. The interview itself was exactly 30 minutes (25 min about me and 5 min her answering my questions) and very straight-forward and conversational. The first thing she asked me was to show my ID, and as I was travelling I didn't have my passport on hand but she said my govt issued ID was sufficient. Questions: 1. Walk me through your resume 2. Why do you want an MBA 3. Short Term and Long Term Goals 4. Why Anderson 5. How do you see yourself participating in the Anderson Community 6. What would your peers say is your best quality/strength 7. Can you tell me about a time you failed 8. What role do you usually play in a team environment 9. Do you have any questions for me She seemed very friendly; smiled and nodded and made a few comments here and there, and took some notes off camera. All in all, a very warm interaction. Good Luck to everyone preparing for the interview! Hope this helps!

I had my Ross interview last week. At one point, I thought I was going to miss it. The calendar on my phone reminded me that the interview was meant to be at 4:45 pm my time. It had been a really busy day on my Client’s site and I was only able to get away at 4:30 pm but then got stuck in rush hour traffic. The interview was meant to be via Skype. I received a ‘wave’ from the Ross Admissions team at 4:40 pm on Skype at which point I was still on the way to my office where I had booked a meeting room to have the call. I finally arrived at 4:50 pm and was convinced I had screwed up. Things only got worse when I tried to call them back on Skype and there was no answer. I then decided to call the Admissions Officer who had confirmed the interview details. She was really lovely and told me my interview wasn’t for another hour. So for some reason I got my EST conversion all wrong. This was a blessing in disguise as I was able to compose myself and do some last minute preparations. The interview seemed to go well. Ross are the only school who had said I should have a form of identification ready for the call but they didn’t ask for it. The interview was with a second year student. She started off by telling me about herself (her background and what she was doing at Ross). She was on a dual degree programme (I will talk about this later). We then went into the standard MBA questions: Tell me about yourself? Why you want to want to do an MBA now? Why Ross? etc. We then got to the scenario based questions and she asked me about: a time when I encountered difficulties while on a job and how I managed to come through; a situation where I had shown leadership; a situation where I had to work with different functions/unit to deliver a project, and; an experience of working with a difficult manager. When she finished with her questions she then gave me the opportunity to ask mine which I did. I have become more interested in dual degree programs as I have gone through this MBA process. I will explain this in another blog. This is where I feel Ross has a big advantage. One of the stats they are very proud of is that they have 97 top 10 graduate programs. Students are also allowed to self initiate their dual degree programs. This gives students the opportunity to create a ‘specialised academic program to meet their specific career interest.’ To do this you have to be accepted by both the schools you are interested in. The advantage of this is you can wait till you have started your first program and then apply to the additional academic unit you are interested in. It is then up to you and the faculty to come up with an agreed plan to complete the program. From my understanding the dual degree programs usually take 3 years but I think if you pick two programs that have similar allowable credits you have the opportunity to double count which could reduce the time. This is my understanding of the information I have gathered through speaking to my interviewer and my research but am happy to be corrected.

I applied on 30th September and heard back from Leigh for an interview request on 4th October. Scheduled for interview on 23rd Oct and finally got an offer on 8th Nov. Following were some of the questions that were asked during the interview: 1. Walk me through your resume. 2. Did you ever lead a team? 3. How do you connect with people? 4. Have you ever given feedback to non-contributing team members? 5. What are your short and long term goals? 6. What are the traits you think a leader should have? 7. What is one question that you think I should have asked you, but didn't?

Off-campus interview with an Alumni. Met in a small-cafe in the morning. Started out fairly conversational, first he told me a little bit about his experience, how he got into Booth etc. Afterwards we started with resume: Tell me about yourself? Resume walk through Why MBA? Why Booth? What is your goals? What is your biggest achievement? What is your biggest non-work achievement? What do you like to do outside work? Hobbies? Went into specifics about each job, asked detailed questions about the bullet points I had listed on the resume. Questions about the time I failed, or things did not go as planned. Spend the last 10 minutes with my questions. He was very friendly, submitted the report the same day.

We started from personal questions (what are you doing outside of work) and went to why mba, why now, why booth, weakness, strength, whom you admire and why, and behavioral ( could not sell your idea or convince someone). Was no question WMTYR, so I tried to insert my story into one of the answers. he was super nice and I felt we connected well on a personal level, we talked in details about every question - he asked a lot of follow-ups. I asked him about his experience of experiential learning and how he stays connected after graduation (he is alum). In the end I added how I will contribute to Booth.

Had my skype interview with a second-year MBA student. The interview was like chatting with a senior from my college. She started by introducing herself and then told me the format she would be following for the complete interview. Major questions were: 1. Tell me about yourself. A follow-up question on my current role. 2. Why Anderson? 3. Post MBA Goals. Plan-B if I'm not able to get into the company of my choice 4. How would I contribute to the Anderson community? 5. What are my strengths and weaknesses that my colleagues would talk about? Follow up question on how I am working on improving one of my weaknesses. 6. A constructive feedback that I received in my job. How did I improve upon it? 7. Any questions for me. The interview was for 30 minutes. I would suggest not to stress out and be prepared on why Anderson is your choice according to your post-MBA goals.

The interviewer was quite friendly. He was a 2nd generation family business owner. The interview lasted for over 1 hour, 15 minutes. This is how it went : 1. He made me feel comfortable and told me that it will be an informal interview but he will be taking notes for the school, so I shouldn't mind it. He had two copies of my resume and a blank sheet in which he was constantly jotting some points. 2. He started by introducing himself and told me about his background, career and gave a glimpse of his life @ LBS. He mentioned that he will chat more about it towards the end. From what I understood, LBS has a set procedure for interviews and the interview needs to follow it and capture specific feedback on those particular aspects. 3. Then, I introduced myself and he asked me to talk about my leadership style - pros and cons (since I mentioned leading teams). 4. Why MBA? Why LBS? 5. He asked me that since I have spent all of my professional life so far at Microsoft - how have I grown there as an individual? 6. Then, he asked me to talk about my career plan post-MBA and why that plan? I mentioned consulting and spoke about how it is in line with my skill set, experience and interest. Then, he asked me what my plan B is in case is I don't grab a consulting job. 7. "Does it not bother you that consultants don't develop anything on their own and they are just advising others?" 8. "What is your long-term goal?" 9. "How will you handle a non-contributing team member in LBS study group?" 10. "What will you contribute to LBS community?" 11. "How do you handle conflict?" 12. "First year at LBS is extremely hectic, how do you typically handle stress?" 13. “What are your hobbies?” When I told him I like to write, he mentioned that I should consider looking at the LBS newsletter group – It might interest me. The interview was quite interactive throughout. He kept sharing his experiences and insights in between. 14. Then he gave me a topic for a case presentation. He had already selected one for me and he gave me 5 minutes to think of some strategies to help that client. I jotted down some points that I could immediately think through and spoke about them. He didn’t ask me any counter questions and seemed fairly convinced with my points. 15. The interview concluded with him giving me time to ask some questions and him sharing his experiences. I asked him for any advice that he would have for me to prepare myself for an MBA in the ten months that I have at hand. He told me that he wouldn’t recommend me to do any preparation, I should take life as it comes and not be too stressed out about the MBA. He then concluded with sharing some his MBA highlights and how he grew from that experience. Overall, it was a pleasant experience and I think it went well. Eagerly waiting for the results!

I had my interview on-campus with a second year student. He arrived promptly and we interviewed in a small room in the admissions office. After a brief introduction he asked me to introduce myself, then we spent ~30 minutes on various questions, followed by five minutes of questions for him. The questions were fairly standard, and included: What other activity (other than what I covered in my intro) would you want to highlight? What are your long term career goals? Why Booth? Why an MBA? Why now? Tell me about a time when you failed to meet a personal or professional goal What classes are you particularly looking forward to? What specifically do you hope to gain in terms of leadership? What do you hope to gain from the Booth MBA? Describe your ideal MBA environment? Anything else you wished we’d covered? Overall, he was very friendly and put me at ease. It was a very conversational interview and he even chimed in from time to time to affirm / comment on my responses. Was very focused on Booth and what I hope to gain and less on my career goals.

I met up with my interviewer twice previously during the MBA Tours and a 1-1 Coffee Chat. My advice is to already know which schools you are aiming for before attending the MBA Tours and use your time there to network with their AdComms team voraciously, rather than go for these MBA Tours only to "find out more", unless you are not intending to apply in that intake. Keep a lookout for when your target school representatives make a visit to your country and network with their AdComms again. Make sure that they are aware of who you are and know you by name. Speak to alumni in those events only if you need to desperately know the culture of the school on that same day or to ask something which is not convenient to ask the AdComms team, because the AdComms team makes the final decision regarding whether you matriculate into the school, not the alumni. So spend as much physical time with the AdComms team, not alumni. Try to Skype the alumni instead, which is a 1-1 session and you can ask more personal questions. Be pleasant during networking - don't stand shyly at the back but don't hog the AdComms member talking to you or be aggressive towards others in the group. Your positive attributes (and negative ones) will be remembered. MBA classes are all about fit and being part of the team. The AdComms team have good memory despite seeing so many people in so many events. For my interview, I enjoyed a small chit-chat at the beginning since the interviewer already knew my story via the 1-1 Coffee Chat and what I aspire to do after the MBA. Keep up to the latest news regarding Rotman, be it from their website, or from other sources. Preferably other sources. I managed to pick up an article on Rotman that was so recent (published only hours before the interview) that it didn't appear on Google, and the chit-chat revolved around that. It showed that I wasn't merely doing a last minute Google search on Rotman before the interview to impress, but rather I was really looking out for such news on an almost daily basis. The standard questions followed: - What led you to decide to apply to Rotman? - Why Rotman instead of other schools? - Why are you picking ****** as your career goal? (the interviewer remembered my career goal from the 1-1 Coffee Chat session, so make sure that your story doesn't contradict - if you have a very strong reason for reading an MBA, your story will always be consistent) - Tell me when you faced an issue while working as a team - Tell me an instance when networking helped you - Tell me an instance when you learnt something valuable from someone (I spoke of someone I learnt a great deal from, and suddenly realised that he was one of my recommenders for Rotman when I was wrapping up my answer - crazy coincidence because I chose different recommenders for the different schools I applied to! - and just managed to mention this fact before the next question, or that moment would have been lost) - Tell me one instance when you encountered a failure - Is there anything that you wished I had asked you Then came the questions to be posed to Rotman. Target to ask around 3 questions unless you had been really eloquent in your responses and the interview is already past 45 minutes. Use your own judgement, sense how tired the interviewer already is. If the interviewer is still energetic and raring to go, go ahead and ask questions but try not to go beyond 55 minutes so that they can prepare for the next interview and/or write positive notes about you after you log off. Also, speak to alumni you are already friendly with to confirm that the problems you sighted in the programme have not been addressed (it would be a little embarrassing if the problems you thought were present had already been addressed in the recent intake).

Adcom initiated interview debrief Getting there I took the dartmouth coach up from Boston early in the morning. The ride was around 3 hours total and was fairly pleasant. The coach was surprisingly comfortable with wifi, toilet and reclining seats. I highly recommend the coach if you're coming from Boston or NYC, however make sure you get your tickets in advance. Both my ride to and from Hanover were sold out the prior day. Luckily I got my tickets a week before hand. I arrived in the afternoon and was tired so didn’t do much the night before the interview. Read over some notes quickly and tried to chill out with netflix and some herb tea The morning My day was scheduled to start at 8 30 am with a class visit and applicants expected to arrive at the admissions office around 8 15. Due to jet lag, I was up at 5am so had plenty of time to get up and get some breakfast from Lou’s Bakery(highly recommended by the way). After eating I went for a walk around the campus and familiarised myself with where Tuck was on campus so I wouldn’t get lost. I ended up arriving around 8am to the admissions office and was the second person there. We were given our schedules for the day and admissions marked us off the list. By 8 15 the room was full with about 12 -15 people. There were a few other International applicants - Some from East Asia and some from India. However majority was domestic students Class Visit At 8 25 my guide showed up and took me to the class I was sitting in on. I sat in on a core accounting class that ran from 8 30 to 10. I have never studied accounting and didn’t really understand what was going on, however the professor seemed engaging and the class appeared more like an open discussion rather than a lecture. It seemed like a great way to learn. Interview After the class visit, I had around 15 minutes before my interview was scheduled. My interviewer showed up at 10 15 on the dot and took me to the room and we made small talk about my flight and what not on the way. The interview was with a second year and was very relaxed. We had 30 minutes for interview and 15 minutes for questions. The 30 minutes flew by and we covered a lot of ground so make sure you are succinct in your responses. The interviewer already had a copy of my resume (although I don’t believe they have access to the other parts of my application; essays, transcript, gmat etc) and had already read through it. The questions were all fairly standard with the walk me through your resume, why mba, why tuck, what are you most excited about outside of academics, how will you contribute to the study group, when have you had to give feedback, when have you received tough feedback. It was very flowing and they don't appear to throw any curveball questions at you, so nothing to be stressed about. However make sure you have interesting questions prepared as 1/3 of the interview time is allocated to questions. I truly feel the purpose of the interview is to know your personal side and your motivations for Tuck. Lunch and Tour After the interview I had an hour of free time before lunch. I mostly just chatted to other applicants and walked around the dartmouth campus. At lunch we sat in a class room and sandwiches and fruits were provided. We were joined by some first years who talked more about their experiences so far. After lunch was a tour provided by a first year who walked us all around tuck. It’s deceptively big and is all interconnected with tunnels which I thought was interesting Takeaways and observations Tuck is really remote. Like really remote. If you are coming from a major city you may find it difficult to adapt. Understand this before applying. However the campus is beautiful and has a lot of charm to it. Things close very early which I found weird coming from a city where most things are open 24 hours The students seem amazing. All the interactions I had with students seemed very genuine and authentic. They obviously love being at tuck and they will go out of their way to make you feel comfortable. Whilst I was walking around during the day I got lost on campus. A first year approached me and asked if I needed any help with directions. We ended up having a chat for 10 minutes about Tuck life and even gave me some interview tips. Lack of diversity. I was a little disappointed about the lack of diversity at tuck. Maybe it was just the class I sat in on but everyone seemed to be White American. There was a handful of Asian/Indians in the class and no coloured people. It seemed about 90% of the class was white. This was a little off-putting and made me think about tucks international strength and reputation. Diversity is an important criteria for me and within that class I didn’t really feel it. I need to do more research here. Sense of community You can really feel that all the students known each other and are always helping one another. I could definitely feel a strong sense of community, almost like everyone was a family. Worth the visit Overall Im very glad I decided to visit. I thoroughly enjoyed my time in Hanover. I encourage those, particularly international applicants who aren't familiar with US culture to visit tuck. The day was very well run and informative and gave me a much deeper understanding of what Tuck is about

Hey guys! Just had my Skype interview yesterday. It was led by a second year student at Anderson. It was really conversational and the interviewer was super friendly. The total interview was 30 minutes to the clock. The first 25 minutes she asked me questions and the last 5 minutes, I asked her some questions about UCLA. The questions were: 1- Tell me about yourself 2- Why Mba? Why now? Why Anderson? 4- My career goals are in the intersection of Finance & Tech. She asked, if admitted to anderson, which courses I will focus more on ( Tech or Fiannce) 3- Tell me about a time you had to convince someone at work 4- Which role I play working in teams Overall I found the interview to be quite warm and conversational. Good luck everyone!

I interviewed last week with a current student on campus and really enjoyed the whole experience. Nothing surprising or any brain teaser questions. Be prepared to talk about your current role, job transitions, and pretty much anything you put on your resume. There are also the typical behavioral questions, "tell me about an accomplishment you're proud of...", "tell me about a time you failed...", etc. Try not to stress too much, it really is designed to get to know you better and very relaxed.

Interview with second year student via Skype, lasted about 40 mins. Forgot my passport and had to send a photo of it after(!) 1. Tell me about yourself. 2. Why Anderson and why now? 3. Your goals seem very focused on the emerging markets, why are you applying to a school in America? 4. Have you heard about any facilities in particular at Anderson that you think stand out? 5. What do you plan to do immediately after the MBA? 6. What is your plan B if you do not achieve the role you want upon finishing the MBA? 7. The MBA class is very diverse, how will you handle working in teams of lots of different people? 8. Anything else you think Anderson should know? Questions for the interviewer...

I was asked how i landed my current job and status then he asked about a project that i had mentioned in my cv . and asked my role in it and the result . then he asked about the financial and quantitative analysis done by me when i start a project. 3. he asked be about a weakness that was mentioned by my seniors .(this part was really tricky) and was it true or not. 4. THEN he asked what i would bring to the institution as an individual. 5. proove that how would you be able to cope up with the curriculum and all 6. describe a project that you did . why could only you do that and nobody else 7.what are your future goals 8.what all colleges you have applied to and which one would you choose if you get selected into all of those 9.which industry do you want to go to 10. why a MBA now . after only 2 years of job 11. what majors are you intrested in such as analysis , strategy , competitor analysis . why these 12. lastly any question from my side

Introduce urself, shrt term long term goals, why mba , why now, why babson, strengths, weakness, apart from babson to which other schools are u applying(since i applied in august itself and babson was the first school i applied to so i was not asked the follow up question that is if u get an admit from all then which one will u choose. Back ur answr with solid reason). Why should we select u/how are you different from other applicants. Then i was given time to ask my questions. I would also suggest u shall prepare following question. Any ethical dilemma, if yr goals don't materialize what alternative career path will u take, time when u failed and your learning from this expernc, team experience, what kind of leader u r, how will ur peers describe u,

Had my McCombs interview yesterday. I think it went okay. Overview: I met adcom in a hotel lobby. We did basic introductions and talked for a bit. Then we dove into interview questions. My interviewer had a set of questions from which he asked questions. In this way, the interview was quite structured, and wasn't like a regular conversation. My interviewer also took notes quite visibly, and it was slightly distracting because I knew that whatever he wrote would be the basis for his interview report. Types of questions: We spoke about career goals and went over a few behavioural questions related to my professional experience. I spoke about my motivations for doing an MBA and how it would help me in my short/long term goals. Then we spoke at length about the McCombs program, and how I would contribute to it. Just FYI, McCombs focuses heavily on how prospective students can give back to the community - I was asked a question about it. Finally, the interviewer asked if I had any questions about the program. This was the most unstructured part of the interview, and was quite conversational. It is best to prepare 4-5 questions I was surprised that we spent 15-20 minutes on my questions and another 15-20 minutes on discussing McCombs specific questions. I was prepared for a conversational interview and thought that we'd spend much more time talking about my background and professional experience, but this was not the case (we spent only about 8-10 minutes on this). Key takeaways: Prepare your stories well. Figure out how to repurpose your stories to answer a variety of questions. Have a clear idea of what you want to achieve through the MBA. Know your strengths and weaknesses at work, and also as an applicant. I was asked about both these points specifically. Prepare to talk about your work in a succinct and concise way. Finally, relax! My interviewer was very friendly and while the interview was in a question-answer format, he made me feel at ease. Hope this helps!

Interviewed with a Kellogg alumni at a local coffee shop after work on a weekday. The interview was not very conversational and felt stressful and maybe a little frustrating. The interviewer did not introduce herself at the beginning, so I have no idea about the industry she is in and her stories besides some info I found on Linkedin beforehand. In the interview, she asked many questions about goals, why Kellogg and some behavior questions (teamwork, leadership style and so on), which I thought were normal. What tripped me off is that during the course of the interview, the interviewer almost fell asleep at some point. The whole interview felt like probing (or maybe more like register for an car insurance), with interviewer asking a question, then I talked for 2-5 minutes and then the interview would respond with a quick "ok" and then wrote something down before moving to the next question. Anyway, my advice is to work hard to prepare for the interview and try to schedule the interview over weekends.

Hello folks, Interviewed with Deirdre Kane today. She was a very nice person to talk to. Introduced herself initially and explained the interview plan clearly that how and what she plans to ask in the scheduled time. Asked only behavioral questions such as:- 1) biggest achievement 2) how would you resolve a conflict 3) leadership example 4) team player example 5) did something that others do not want to do but still manage to convince them. 6) ethical dilemma kind of question 7) difficult team member to handle, how you managed? This is the best I can recollect from my interview. Hope it helps. All the best.

I just finished my virtual interview with the Admission Officer - HC. The interview lasted about 25 minutes. I did my best (in my opinion) and just need to pray from now on. Most of the questions asked are related to my resume, reasoning behind one thing and another. Anyway, here's all of the questions asked during the session: 1) Walk me through your resume - from undergraduate up until now 2) Why did you choose your first job, how did you find it? (maybe it's because I went to banking from an engineering school) 3) You only work at X for a year, and moved to a new job. what's the reason behind that short period of working? 4) Tell me about your new job, why did you take it and how did you find it? 5) What is your short-term goal after your MBA? 6) Are you sponsored? Tell me about your scholarship 7) Tell me about your business at X (my entrepreneurial journey) 8) What are you passionate about? 9) what do you do for fun? 10) Do you want to tell me anything or do you have questions for me? Hope it helps! Gudluck for us all!