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Foster
Full Time MBA
Final Decision:
Admitted
Status:
Online with Adcom
Interviewed on:
2 months ago Feb 21, 2026
1 month ago Mar 21, 2026 05:03
Hi Guys, R1 admit here.
Apart from the general questions that I can see here, a few questions I would like to talk about:
What is your Plan C? (because of the current job market)
One question which I wasn't prepared for and was unexpected is - what location would you like to work at Europe, Asia, USA ? if USA where in USA , etc. I don't remember whether it was short term or long term.
Tell me about a time you stood up for your colleague.
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Foster
Full Time MBA
Final Decision:
Interviewed
Status:
Online with Adcom
Interviewed on:
2 months ago Feb 21, 2026
2 months ago Feb 21, 2026 06:02
I had my interview with Megan Lewis yesterday
It wasnt grilling , more like going deep into the things you mentioned in your previous answer
The basic questions were same .
Why mba ?
Why noow ?
Why foster ?
Challenges and how you faced it?
Be ready to answer about the diversity , inclusion and equity question . It is their mission statement and she would like to know how you have practised those values
These were the only generic questions. Apart from that all the questions come out of what you say .
For example : i am part of a neurologically challenged group as an ally in my org . She asked more on what i do, what i experienced .
So be cautious of what you say , because she will pick up on it to check if you are genuinely saying it
Apart from that her energy was just like any other interviewer .
Also another question she frequently asks is about any cultural challenges you faced in your job.
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Foster
Full Time MBA
Status:
Off Campus with Adcom
Interviewed on:
2 months ago Feb 21, 2026
2 months ago Feb 21, 2026 06:02
My interview was with Kathleen Glazer. Went on for about 45 minutes. Questions (in no particular order):
1. Walk me through your resume.
2. What is your plan B?
3. Why MBA?
4. Describe a difficult teammate or a difficult stakeholder.
5. Tell me about a time when you were right and you had to convince others to take your side.
6. What is your leadership style?
7. What role do you take in a team?
8. What constructive feedback have you received?
9. Tell me about a time you worked with others with a different perspective.
10. What other schools have you applied to?
11. How will you contribute to Foster?
12. Any questions for me?
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Foster
Full Time MBA
Status:
Online with Adcom
Interviewed on:
2 months ago Feb 21, 2026
2 months ago Feb 21, 2026 06:02
my interview was with admissions councellor, she was a part time in admissions and full time professor. Interview went for 50 mins, out of which 40 mins were spent in her questions. She was pretty conversational and added her 2-cents after some of my answers. Here are the qs:
Tell me about your career briefly
When an MBA came to your mind, and how does that fit into what I am doing right now and where I wanna go?
How is my promotion different than my prev role?
Tell me more about goals, and plan B and plan C.
what about long term plans
Why Foster is the right place for you?
How will you contribute inside and outside the classroom at Foster?
TMAT when you mentored someone, which had an impact.
Who are you in a team? What are some words that your teammates would use to describe you?
She narrated a big para of mission statement. Then she asked, in what ways do your values and lived experiences enable you to bring different perspectives to our community and to engage with people who have different values and lived experiences than yourself?
Tell me how do you stay positive when you are faced with a challenge or a mistake. How do you deal with that?
This program is pretty intense. TMAT when you felt overwhelmed with work or a project. What did you do, learn from that?
Tell me what things are you passionate outside of work.
Is there anything you wanna convey outside of application.
QnA
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Foster
Full Time MBA
Final Decision:
Interviewed
Status:
Online with Adcom
Interviewed on:
2 months ago Feb 21, 2026
2 months ago Feb 21, 2026 06:02
My interviewer was Brent Nagamine (Director of admissions). He already knew my essays, resume and entire application. So, most of the conversation was based on that. The interview was quite different than my other interviews tbh.
First 10 minutes was about the origin story and how I got to where I am. Then, we began talking about the value of community and resilience and how I plan to use it in my career goals and in MBA, how I plan to use these values to handle ambiguity and how it has led me to solve problems better. This lasted another 15 minutes.
The remaining discussion was on career goals. He already knew them but wanted more context on how the career goals (and the plan B) can get me to where I am. Finally, we concluded the discussion with why Foster and what offerings I am interested in.
Last 5 minutes were for addressing my queries regarding the program. Overall, a great discussion. Wasn’t really talking about my stories, rather it was a deeper dive into values and personality.
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Foster
Full Time MBA
Final Decision:
Interviewed
Status:
Online with Adcom
Interviewed on:
2 months ago Feb 21, 2026
2 months ago Feb 21, 2026 06:02
Hi
I am posting all Mendoza MBA video essay questions i have collected so far from admission discussions of 2026
1. If you were a speaker at an event, what topic would you speak about?
2. How do you handle high pressure situations?
3. Tell about an experience that impacted you the most?
4. Tell me about a time when you had to manage your priorities.
5. Tell us something about yourself that we couldn't find anywhere in your application
6. Tell us about a time when you had to change priority to get a desired result
7. What does integrity as a personality trait mean to you? Why is it important at the workplace?
8. Tell about a time you experienced a setback. How did you deal with it and what were the results?
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Foster
Full Time MBA
Final Decision:
Interviewed
Status:
Online with Adcom
Interviewed on:
5 months ago Nov 21, 2025
2 months ago Feb 21, 2026 06:02
Just had my interview with an adcom member and a second-year student. The questions were pretty standard and the interview with the student felt very natural and conversational — I really enjoyed it. Waiting for the results!
Q: how your previous experience would help foster community.
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Foster
Full Time MBA
Final Decision:
Interviewed
Status:
Online with Student
Interviewed on:
5 months ago Nov 21, 2025
4 months ago Dec 21, 2025 06:12
Interviewed with a 2nd year student
Tell me about yourself.
Why MBA, and why now?
Why Foster? (Deep follow-ups on program research, student conversations, and fit)
Walk me through what specifically made you interested in Product Management.
Tell me about an experience where you worked with cross-functional stakeholders.
Given the current market, what is your Plan B if PM doesn’t work out immediately?
DEI/Belonging question
What kinds of activities, clubs, or experiences do you want to get involved with at Foster?
Your questions for the interviewer.
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Foster
Full Time MBA
Status:
Online with Adcom
Interviewed on:
5 months ago Nov 21, 2025
4 months ago Dec 21, 2025 06:12
My interview was with Connor Swan. He only read my resume. It was a very candid conversation.
1. Why MBA? Why Now?
2. Why Foster? And how you will contribute to Foster?
3. Tell me about your biggest achievement
4. Tell me about a time you failed and how you handled/learnt from it
5. Tell me about a time you had to shift your perspective
6. Tell me about a time you had to influence someone who doesn’t have to answer to you
7. Mandatory question: How will you support DEI efforts at Foster
After every answer, he shared his perspective as well and kept the conversation flowing. Asked a couple of minor follow up questions based on my answers
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Foster
Full Time MBA
Final Decision:
Interviewed
Status:
Online with Adcom
Interviewed on:
1 year ago Apr 21, 2025
1 year ago Apr 21, 2025 05:04
Interview was taken by adcom director. The interview was very conversational and it went for 40mins.
Started of by general cool down topics like - how are you, where are you and what time is it in India.
1) Tell me about yourself? One behaviour question as well when I was talking about my work experience and jobs I pivot.
2) What's my leadership style?
3) What is your short team goals? What's your plan B?
4). Why MBA at this point and Why Foster?
5). DE&I being the core of school values, how do I plan to foster DE&I with my efforts?
6). Apart from work what do you do and how do your spend your time outside work?
7). Questions for her and for Foster?
Hope this helps!
Tip: Speak to students before your interview to talk about why this school better.
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Foster
Full Time MBA
Status:
Online with Student
Interviewed on:
1 year ago Apr 21, 2025
1 year ago Apr 21, 2025 05:04
Just completed my interview with a second-year student. It lasted 35 minutes, and below are the questions that were asked:
1. Tell me about yourself
2. Why MBA? Why Foster?
3. Goals
4. Plan B
5. What are your key values? How will your values help you in contribute to fostering a culture of belonging at Foster? (something along these lines...)
6. TMAT you faced a challenging situation
7. Questions for him.
Also, there were 1/2 following questions related to my exp and responses. Overall the interview was very conversational.
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Foster
Full Time MBA
Status:
Online with Adcom
Interviewed on:
3 years ago Apr 21, 2023
1 year ago Apr 21, 2025 05:04
Just finished my interview with alexsis Scott - it went on for like 20mins
It was same questions as last year
1. Tmat when you have failed
2. Why foster mba?
3. Tmat you had challenging colleague
4. What exites you about doing mba
5. Why mba
6. What challenges do you think you will face in mba
7. Questions for her?
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Foster
Full Time MBA
Final Decision:
Admitted
Status:
Online with Adcom
Interviewed on:
2 years ago Apr 21, 2024
1 year ago Apr 21, 2025 05:04
Interview was with Megan Lewis, found it to be the most grilling out of all the interviews I gave till now (took 45 mins)
1. Why an MBA?
2. Walk me through your resume (kept stopping me for different things to explain)
3. What after foster?
4. Plan A, Plan B and Plan C
5. DEI how did you foster?
6. What is your weakness? How did you work on it?
7. How did your colleagues like you?
8. How would your supervisor describe you?
9. How do you define your leadership style?
10.Who did you talk to at foster?
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Foster
Full Time MBA
Status:
Online with Adcom
Interviewed on:
2 years ago Apr 21, 2024
2 years ago Apr 21, 2024 05:04
Just wrapped up my interview with Alexsis Scott - it went for like 40mins
1. What about MBA excites you?
2. TMA your goal and talk a bit about your Plan B.
3. What if it fails, nothing works in your favour, whats the plan C?
4. What was the best complement that you got?
5. What was a constructive feedback that you received?
6. TMAT when you have failed ? How did you fix it?
7. Why would your Foster batchmates be happy to have you?
8. What do you think will be the challenges in pursuing an MBA?
9. With Foster, how do you believe your lived experiences would help in DEI with your cohort at Foster?
10. Your short-term goals wrt Foster?
11. Any question that you have for me?
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Foster
Full Time MBA
Status:
Online with Adcom
Interviewed on:
2 years ago Apr 21, 2024
2 years ago Apr 21, 2024 05:04
Just completed my interview with Noe. Mine was relatively shorter than the others have posted. The total length of the interview is 35 mins.
1. Tell me about yourself and Why Foster?
2. Plan-C (I mentioned Plan-A in the prev question)
3. How would you work with the career management center?
4. TMAT you failed.
5. How do you see contributing to the Foster community?
6. Lived experiences on DEI.
7. Do you have any questions for me?
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Foster
Full Time MBA
Status:
Online with Adcom
Interviewed on:
2 years ago Apr 21, 2024
2 years ago Apr 21, 2024 05:04
These were the questions asked
1. How does your day look like ?
2. Post MBA and long term goals
3. Plan - B
4. Why MBA, why Foster, contributions
5. What are the various DEI initiatives that u took
6. TMAT delegated a team
7. TMAT where you had conflict with manager and how did it got resolved
8. TMAT where you faced failure
9. Biggest achievement
10. Biggest constructive criticism
11. What are the challanges that u can face at Foster apart from MBA stuff
12. Hobbies apart from work and entrepreneur stuff
13. Leadership style and why
Last ..any questions to ask
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Foster
Full Time MBA
Final Decision:
Interviewed
Status:
Online
Interviewed on:
3 years ago Apr 21, 2023
3 years ago Apr 21, 2023 05:04
I had my interview this week.
1. Walk me through your background?
2. Why an MBA? Why now?
3. Why foster?
4. What are your post mba goals?
5. How will you contribute at Foster?
6. Tell me about a time you disagreed with a boss.
7. What role do you play on a team?
8. What were your criteria when selecting an mba program?
9. What questions do you have for me?
Very conversational. She had a few follow questions that were specific to my application or my responses. I feel better about the school after the interview. Stated that interviews are rapping up this week and we would hear back by the end of the month.
10. What do you do fun in your spare time.
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Foster
Full Time MBA
Status:
Off Campus with Adcom
Interviewed on:
3 years ago Apr 21, 2023
3 years ago Apr 21, 2023 05:04
I had my interview with Alexsis Scott. It was a very relaxed and interactive interview that lasted 30 min (first 25 min, she asked the questions and the last 5, she answered mine). Following were her questions:
1. Why Foster MBA?
2. What about MBA excites you?
3. What do you think will be the challenges in pursuing an MBA?
4. TMA your goal and talk a bit about your Plan B.
5. What was a constructive feedback that you received? How did you take it?
6. What was the best complement that you got?
7. TMAT when you were working on a project and half way through you realised that you had to change your approach.
8. Why would your Foster batchmates be happy to have you?
9. Any question that I wanted to ask?
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Foster
Full Time MBA
Final Decision:
Admitted
Status:
Off Campus with Adcom
Interviewed on:
3 years ago Apr 21, 2023
3 years ago Apr 21, 2023 05:04
Interviewed with adcom and took ~35 min. She was very nice, really listened to my story and asked follow up question.
1. Why MBA
2. Plan B
3. Why Foster
4. Achievement
5. A time work on stress and pressure
6. Failure/mistake
7. Leadership experience and what MBA can help you.
8. Contribute to Foster
9. More question for her
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Foster
Full Time MBA
Final Decision:
Invited to Interview
Status:
Off Campus with Adcom
Interviewed on:
3 years ago Apr 21, 2023
3 years ago Apr 21, 2023 05:04
The interview was friendly and conversational. It lasted for 40 minutes.
1) Tell me about yourself
2) What's the biggest mistake you made
3) What's the risk you took
4) What does a typical day looks like as a Foster student
4) Why Foster
5) What will you contribute to Foster
6) Short term goals
7) Plan B
Any questions I have for her
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