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One question for Rhyme, Helg, and all GMAT clubbers... if you were given the choice of what to send to your interviewer (e.g. your complete application form, including essays, your CV, or just part of your application form, without essays), what would you send them (before the interview I mean)?
Consider that you may want to keep some answers or "stories" for the interview even if you already included them in your essays, but that - on the other hand - providing the interviewer with your essays you can make him aware of things that you couldn't let him know otherwise...
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IMO,

The schools stress a lot on conducting a blind interview, hence we should respect that. Just forward your resume.

Other thoughts on why it is better to have a blind interview.

1) You might have given all the juicy examples in your essays. Stating them again may seem scripted in an interview.

2) Blind interview can be a very open ended interview. Hence, again IMO, you have the chance to steer it the way you want.

3) Let the interviewer judge you on what you are saying not what you have written. Let that be the work of the adcom members. That is, you get to present another side of yourself in the interview.

Just my two cents.
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Thanks Jay,

I see what you're saying and agree with you that blind interviews have many positive aspects. Thanks again!

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I agree that you should go with your resume with a blind interview. However be aware that you can be asked about things mentioned on your essays.

In a interview that I had last weekend. My interviewer told me even before we could enter the interview room, that the adcom has specifically instructed her to ask about a certain experience of mine.

I thought it was strange as it was supposed to be a blind interview. Better to be prepared though.
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I agree that you should go with your resume with a blind interview. However be aware that you can be asked about things mentioned on your essays.

In a interview that I had last weekend. My interviewer told me even before we could enter the interview room, that the adcom has specifically instructed her to ask about a certain experience of mine.

I thought it was strange as it was supposed to be a blind interview. Better to be prepared though.
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Curious...which school was that?
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I agree that you should go with your resume with a blind interview. However be aware that you can be asked about things mentioned on your essays.

In a interview that I had last weekend. My interviewer told me even before we could enter the interview room, that the adcom has specifically instructed her to ask about a certain experience of mine.

I thought it was strange as it was supposed to be a blind interview. Better to be prepared though.

Curious...which school was that?
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One question for Rhyme, Helg, and all GMAT clubbers... if you were given the choice of what to send to your interviewer (e.g. your complete application form, including essays, your CV, or just part of your application form, without essays), what would you send them (before the interview I mean)?
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For all my three interviewers I have provided resumes, the schools asked me to do as much. I have included in all my messages to my interviewers "any additional info is available upon request" though, of course. Nobody has asked for any, however.

It might be a good idea to print out your whole application though, just to go through it a couple more times before the actual thing. You never know, what info they had from school.

Be sure to bring a printed copy of your resume to the interview, the other guy might not have bothered to do so :)
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I prefer to see the resume/CV because it tells the basics and is easy to read. The essays and application feel like overkills and many interviewers simply won'y have the time to look at them. As mentioned above, you can always say that you can provide additional information by request.