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Kenan-Flagler
Full Time MBA
Status:
Online with Adcom
Interviewed on:
2 years ago Apr 22, 2024
2 years ago Apr 22, 2024 06:04
Hi guys
Just completed my interview with Joshua Issermoyer an Airforce Officer. It was really conversational
1. why Fulltime MBA?
2. A leadership experience, something you would like to talk about from your work experience
3. Values that matter to you
4. What is one of your greatest professional achievements and why?
5. What is your greatest personal achievement
6. What is your weakness?
7. How have you worked in diverse teams?
8. Any questions for me
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Kenan-Flagler
Full Time MBA
Status:
Online with Adcom
Interviewed on:
2 years ago Apr 22, 2024
2 years ago Apr 22, 2024 06:04
Hello Everyone
Just now done with my interview. (taken by Adcom member)
A perfect 30 min interview :)
1. Walk me through your resume also include your professional and personal achievements.
2. Why MBA? why now? Why UNC? Short and long term goal (he asked me to answer everything in a go)
3. Why I went ahead with my decision to purse my career in edtech after graduation? And some followup questions.
4. Conflict with team members? How you resolved it!
5. Critical feedback from Management! How you went ahead with the given feedback?
6. About Inclusion! Explain with example.
7. Any questions for me !
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Kenan-Flagler
Full Time MBA
Final Decision:
Admitted
Status:
Online
Interviewed on:
3 years ago Apr 22, 2023
3 years ago Apr 22, 2023 06:04
The interview started about 20 minutes late and ended within 20 minutes. It was conversational, but the interviewer did not speak much. She did take copious notes as I was talking, and there was a curve ball. Following questions were asked:
1. Why MBA? Why now? Why KF? As a single question
2. Want to talk about your work experience as an individual, as a team member, and as a leader: a) how would your colleagues/ team mates describe you? b) talk about the time you led a team and what you learned from it?
3. Talk about one thing on your resume that you consider your proudest achievement
4. She gave me KF's values and asked me "These are KF's values. What do these mean to you, and what do you expect from a B-school around these values?" This was the curve ball for me, especially the second part
5. Anything else you want to speak to about your profile that hasn't been covered through your application or interview?
6. Any questions for me? I asked her a question about scholarships and finances, and received a generic answer "You will know more once a decision has been reached" (which makes me think this was an external reviewer / consultant)
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Kenan-Flagler
Full Time MBA
Final Decision:
Denied with Interview
Status:
Online
Interviewed on:
3 years ago Apr 22, 2023
3 years ago Apr 22, 2023 06:04
Walk me through your resume
why MBA
why UNC
short and long-term goals
Challenge on a team
DEI(a time I was marginalized or saw someone marginalized).
There was follow-up on my DEI response
The interview lasted for almost 20 minutes. Had to switch formats at the beginning and there was no time for me to ask questions But fairly standard and conversational. No curve-balls.
Hope this is helpful
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Kenan-Flagler
Full Time MBA
Final Decision:
Interviewed
Status:
Online
Interviewed on:
3 years ago Apr 22, 2023
3 years ago Apr 22, 2023 06:04
I just concluded my interview. It was with an adcom, she was so nice and interesting. I enjoyed her questions. Questions were around:
- Tell me about yourself.
- Why KF?
- Short term and long term goals.
- what would be your contribution to KF
- Constructive feedback I received from my supervisor
- a time I faced an ethical dilemma and how I navigated
- What do I do outside work?
- what’s my biggest motivation
- How would an MBA help me achieve that
- What would I like KF to remember about me. Key facts
- questions for her. I asked 3 questions. She was very nice and wished me the very best in the process. Finger crossed.
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Kenan-Flagler
Full Time MBA
Final Decision:
Interviewed
Status:
Online
Interviewed on:
3 years ago Apr 22, 2023
3 years ago Apr 22, 2023 06:04
My interview was with someone random. I’m not sure their connection to the school. I know they live 30 minutes away but their LinkedIn doesn’t have UNC. I’ve seen other people that do interviews for UNC and some live across the country. Not an alumni or anything.
Why an MBA now? Why UNC?
What are your long/short term goals?
What is your leadership style?
How have you worked in diverse teams?
What would your coworkers/teammates say are your strengths?
What do the UNC core values mean to you? (integrity, inclusion, innovation and impact)
What more do you want to share with me for the adcom?
What questions do you have for me?
The interview was exactly 30 minutes And my goodbye was cut off, they run a tight schedule.
Is UNC unique in the way they blindly send interview invites to their candidates (an algorithm selects who they interview) then they use a 3rd party to perform the interview?
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Kenan-Flagler
Full Time MBA
Final Decision:
Admitted
Status:
Online
Interviewed on:
3 years ago Apr 22, 2023
3 years ago Apr 22, 2023 06:04
One lady – Adcom
1. Walk me through your resume
2. Which values do you consider most important
3. How will you contribute after coming to Kenan in terms of qualities
4. Questions for me?
5. Leadership experience? What is your style like?
6. What is that one skill you want to build after coming here?
7. Why MBA now? Why MBA at all?
8. What is your long term goal?
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Kenan-Flagler
Full Time MBA
Status:
Online
Interviewed on:
3 years ago Apr 22, 2023
3 years ago Apr 22, 2023 06:04
Mr. Rahul Sampat conducted my interview. Apparently, he is an admission consultant who joined UNC this year.
https://www.linkedin.com/in/rahul-sampat/
Questions asked were:
Walk me through your resume.
Why MBA? Why Now? Why KF?
Short-term and long-term goals?
Tell me a time you received constructive feedback and how you improved.
What stressful situation did you face at work? How did you handle it?
A situation when you felt or saw someone being marginalized? What did you do? How did you create an inclusive environment?
Questions for me?
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Kenan-Flagler
Full Time MBA
Final Decision:
Admitted
Status:
Online
Interviewed on:
3 years ago Apr 22, 2023
3 years ago Apr 22, 2023 06:04
Ms. Virginia Gilbert (
https://www.linkedin.com/in/virginia-he ... t-3a09843/
) from the Admissions committee was my interviewer. She is a Darden alum from the Class of 1997. She seemed convinced with most of my answers and even elaborated on some points as to how I can use the KF resources to get into consulting! It lasted for about 25 minutes. Most questions revolved around the following:
1. My choice of UG major
2. Why second MBA (I already have a PGDM from an Indian B-school)
3. A situation where I had a conflict with a team member
4. My leadership style
5. Why Kenan Flagler
6. Best part about my job
She did not ask me about my goals but mentioned that she had read my essays and knew that I wanted to do consulting. But true to what all current students and alumni told me, it was indeed very conversational.
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Kenan-Flagler
Full Time MBA
Final Decision:
Interviewed
Status:
Online
Interviewed on:
3 years ago Apr 22, 2023
3 years ago Apr 22, 2023 06:04
It was more of a personalized set up for me based on my application but let me give it here in context
Interview flow of patterns
1. They asked about my passion of tennis to begin with - Took this from my essay answers - So commenced with something to begin with. Very interesting start to know a candidate
2. Why did I study Business Administration in my undergrad - Why Loyola - How was the experience - Did you have any major in your undergrad
3. Did you always know you wanted to pursue the world of business ? Whats the source of trigger on this
4. Why MBA ? - While answering this , i also indicated why i wanted to study at UNC
5. Explain what makes you a good leader - How would you deliver negative feedback to your team ?
6. Walk me through your professional career till date
In the middle candidly spoke about my career aspirations (ST and LT) - So the question of whats my ST and LT was covered automatically.
These were the questions - Very engaging interview
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Kenan-Flagler
Full Time MBA
Final Decision:
Admitted
Status:
Online
Interviewed on:
3 years ago Apr 22, 2023
3 years ago Apr 22, 2023 06:04
Just had my interview. Pretty standard questions that are in every debrief. Was with an alum. Strictly kept it to 25mins for questions and 5 for asking her about the school.
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Kenan-Flagler
Full Time MBA
Final Decision:
Admitted
Status:
Online
Interviewed on:
3 years ago Apr 22, 2023
3 years ago Apr 22, 2023 06:04
My interview was with a third party interviewer who has been working with the school for over a year now.
Questions:
1. Tell me something about yourself
2. Why MBA?
3. Why now?
4. Why KF
5. Short term, long term goals
6. 1 CV related question (related to how I got into my industry, what motivated me)
7. Feedback from your supervisor, how do you think will that help you as a leader
8. A leadership experience, something you would like to talk about from your work experience
9. Stressful situation you faced at work? How did you handle it?
10. A situation when you felt or saw someone being marginalised? What did you do? How did you create an inclusive enviornment?
11. Follow up question on how will you create an inclusive environment later as a leader of an organisation?
12. Questions for me
The interviewer was really nice, made me feel comfortable and the interview was conversational.
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Kenan-Flagler
Full Time MBA
Final Decision:
Admitted from WL
Status:
Online
Interviewed on:
3 years ago Apr 22, 2023
3 years ago Apr 22, 2023 06:04
My interviewer was an alumni of UNC not KF, She did her MBA from elsewhere. She was an adcom volunteer.
Tell me about yourself, Walk me through your resume
Why MBA
Why Now
Why UNC
Short term and long term goals
Leadership experience and style
Values that matter to you
Constructive feedback
One thing you are looking forward to learning in the program
How will you strengthen the class
Anything else you'd like me to know?
Questions for me
It was really comfortable, and very chill, didn't feel the pressure, could be myself and have a nice conversation!
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Kenan-Flagler
Full Time MBA
Status:
Off Campus with Alumni
Interviewed on:
3 years ago Apr 22, 2023
3 years ago Apr 22, 2023 06:04
Interviewed with alumni and it lasted for 30 mins
1. Why MBA, why now, why UNCKF
2. How would your teammates describe you
3. Tell me a time you received constructive feedback and how you improved
4. What's your proudest professional achievement
5. In what kind of environments you would thrive
6. what would your supervisor say about your leadership skills
7. tell me 3 things that you want the admission committee to remember about you
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Kenan-Flagler
Full Time MBA
Final Decision:
Admitted
Status:
Online
Interviewed on:
4 years ago Apr 22, 2022
4 years ago Apr 22, 2022 06:04
Interviewed with a third-party interviewer. The interview lasted for 30 mins. It was not too conversational. She had read my resume and had it open during the interview. I'm not sure if she read my application.
Questions were :
1) Tell me about yourself
2) Why MBA
3) Why UNCKF
4) How would you contribute to UNCKF
5) Time when you led a team + what is your leadership style
6) Time when you received constructive feedback + how has it helped you to grow in your current role
7) What are the skills you would like to enhance
8) Anything else you would like to share
9) Any questions for me
Hope this helps ! All the best
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Kenan-Flagler
Full Time MBA
Final Decision:
Admitted
Status:
Online
Interviewed on:
4 years ago Apr 22, 2022
4 years ago Apr 22, 2022 06:04
You won't know who the interviewer is in prior. The interview was with an Ad-com and lasted 30mins.
Questions -
Tell me more about yourself
Why MBA
Why Kenan-Flagler
3 leadership qualities
An area of improvement
What is a common misconception about you?
Looking back at your MBA experience, what would you consider as success?
Anything you want to add?
Any questions?
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Kenan-Flagler
Full Time MBA
Status:
Online
Interviewed on:
4 years ago Apr 22, 2022
4 years ago Apr 22, 2022 06:04
Had my Interview with a member of the Student recruitment team and it lasted for 20 minutes.
1. Introduce yourself (2-3 min)
2. Why MBA now?
3. 4 things in an ideal leader
4. How do you motivate people?
5. Ethical Dilemma
6. Situation when someone upset you
7. Something about you which people think but isn't true
8. Where do you want to work post MBA?
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Kenan-Flagler
Full Time MBA
Final Decision:
Admitted
Status:
Online
Interviewed on:
4 years ago Apr 22, 2022
4 years ago Apr 22, 2022 06:04
Interviewed with AdCom. It was very conversational and lasted for about 30 minutes. She had read my resume and essays before and had specific questions that she wanted to add.
1. How did I select my undergraduate university and degrees?
2. Volunteering activities I was part of during undergrad.
3. Tell more about study abroad experience
4. How did I transit from undergrad to my current employer?
5. What do I do in my current position and what does my day to day look like?
6. A bit more about extra curricular that I do at work.
7. Short-term/long-term goals
8. Why MBA?
9. Why Kenan-Flagler?
10. Questions for adcom.
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Kenan-Flagler
Full Time MBA
Status:
Online
Interviewed on:
4 years ago Apr 22, 2022
4 years ago Apr 22, 2022 06:04
I was waitlisted in R1 and had a follow up interview on 25-Jan. The interview was conducted by Maria, who is part of the admissions team. The interview started with pleasantries, followed by Maria giving a introduction of herself.
Total Interview Time- 30 mins
Questions[in no particular order; paraphrasing]:
1. Walk me through your resume
2. What are your ST and LT goals?
3. Why MBA?
4. Tell me about a time you failed
5. Tell me about a time you had a disagreement with your supervisor
6. If you had to pick two superpowers, what would they be?
7. According to you, what qualities should an ideal leader posses?
8. Describe yourself in 3 words
9. How would you contribute to the Kenan Flagler community?
Last 5 mins were spent in me asking her questions.
Hope this helps. All the best!
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Kenan-Flagler
Full Time MBA
Final Decision:
Admitted
Status:
Online
Interviewed on:
4 years ago Apr 22, 2022
4 years ago Apr 22, 2022 06:04
Pretty neat conversational Interview. Focussed on whether I was clear on the MBA/
Few tips that helped
1)Stay real and be yourself, I was literally conversationally at my best and told her that I was in the hills travelling. And we spoke about travels and sports for 10 / 30 mins
2)Be clear and specific on why mba and why kenan. I was clearly aiming for the school and the passion I addressed via networking, talking to profs, students and just being closer to the actual community. I literally opened all my cards pre during and post the interview slowly but steadily and built a conversational approach towards the app - much more personalised.
3)Have clarity on how you can contribute and give back to Kenan and why you should get there ahead of everybody else. It is energy and zeal once again and do focus on demonstrating that well.
4)Stay humble and have a leadership principle. focus on what works for you, in my case 8 odd years of work ex gave me some pov on what works as a leader personally and what i want to learn at kenan.
Got my decision via call / phone today. Best thing that happened to me in years. The last best something similar was when I raised funding for my startup. Keep dreaming! You will make it.
PS - I did not use a consultant and I think it helped me understand myself during the process better.
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