Kenan-Flagler (UNC) Hub

Just finished my interview with one of the adcom, had a great interview a good interactive session, common questions on Why MBA, Why Now, Why UNC, Why now.. 2 different questions. 1 - how will you prepare yourself for quantitative part of the curriculum (I believe this has been asked because of my Arts Background, a heads-up to all Arts Background). 2 - how have you solved a conflict of a team member All the best everyone.

Here is my interview debrief lT and ST -Why UNC -what are you most looking forward to at UNC -what is your leadership style -how do you deliver negative feedback -Questions about UNC -how do you motivate your team Lasted for about 28 minutes, Interviewer was a third party , interview was very conversational

Had my R2 interview with Adcom yesterday. It was a decent engaging conversation of a full 30 minutes. Posting asked questions here for reference: 1. TMAY 2. Why UNC KF? 3. Why MBA Now? 4. How will you engage with the other students in the program? What do you hope to gain? 5. Assume you get into the program, and after 2y, what must have traits you hope to develop, that you do not have currently 6. TMAT when you made a mistake in a professional career 7. TMAT when you worked in a diverse team. 8. TMAT when you faced any ethical dilemma in your personal or professional life. 9. In your opinion what is the difference between a Manager and a leader? provide example 10. Anything specific you want to highlight? 11. Any other questions you want to ask?

Quick different from other school. No self introduction. Straight to your career goal and why you think you are capable of accomplish it.

My interview was somewhat different from any of those shared here. On a number of occasions, it felt like the interviewer was trying to trick me and was impersonal and unfriendly. Considering how it went, I was not surprised by the result. It was with a 3rd party interviewer, as all KF interviews seem to be. They didn't really describe their connection to UNC and began asking questions after a 30-second introduction. - Tell me about yourself. - Why MBA? - What professional achievement are you most proud of? - What has helped you navigate differences in opinion in the workplace? - Tell me about a time you had to deal with conflict at work. How did you resolve it? - What is something that you've recently learned about yourself? - Is there anything else that you'd like to share which we haven't covered? The interview ran for 32 minutes and I wasn't allowed to ask any questions.

Similar interview to the other debriefs shared. Interview went for sharp 30 mins. - Tell me about yourself - Short-term and Long-term Goals - Why Kenan-Flagler. Why MBA now? - How will you contribute to the development of UNC? - TMAT challenging situation of handling a team - TMAT your biggest achievement - TMAT your received constructive criticism - Do you have any questions for us Some of these questions are follow-ups based on prev. answers. ===== Got the admit call from the interviewer on 9th Dec.

No need to stress out much. It's just a conversation. I prepared a lot based on all interview debriefs but none of that was asked to me. But still if anyone wants to know - 1. What is the difference in roles and responsibilities in you previous and current organization? How both of these are different ? (Background - Previous organization - Consulting and current organization - Insurance brokerage firm) 2. Are there any changes in responsibilities of your role in current organization after you joined ? (Background - Based on one my essay answer) 3. What do you do to blow off steam ? What do you do to have fun? 4. Have you tried to influence working environment at your current organization based on your long consulting experience? How was it ? 5. What is your working style with your colleagues ? How work is divided? 6. What type of strategic or decision making roles you have been ? Any time when you have to present data to senior leadership? Then she gave me some time to ask any questions. I asked few questions related to DBI and STAR program which I had in my mind.

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

Hello everyone, Done with my interview. Was a UNC undergrad alum. Pretty conversational. Questions were as follows: Why did you choose your university? Why an MBA now? Why UNC? What are your long- and short-term goals? TMAT when you had to face a challenging situation as a leader in your team? What questions do you have for me?

Similar interview to the other debriefs shared. Unsure if the interview was with adcom, alumni, or a representative of UNC. They try to keep things to 30 minutes, wrapped up at approx. 35 min. Lots of focus on behavioral questions. Be prepared to potentially elaborate on some of your responses in a follow-up question. - Why MBA, why Kenan-Flagler - Post-graduate goal (are you interested in general consulting or healthcare consulting?) - What are some qualities that make you a good team member - Give an experience from working in a team - What is your greatest personal achievement - What are some of your values - What is one thing that you recently have thought about regarding improving your personal character - What are some things that you would like for adcom to know about you

Interviewer - Someone associated with the organization Overall - The interviewer was friendly. She told me that she has 10 questions to ask me in 30 mins. So, I should not ask her too many questions and instead focus on answering more questions. She was not conversational but definitely expressive so it worked as a great directional cue. We shared a lot of laughs while speaking of her experiences towards the end of the interview. Questions: No tell me about yourself Why MBA? What are your goals? Why Flagler? Next all Behavioral: Tell me why you do and why you don't like working in a team? Tell me what makes a good team? TMA a recent challenging situation? What is your greatest professional achievement? Constructive feedback? What are your values? What do you want the Adcom to remember about you? (2-3 things) Ended with: Do you have any questions for me? (I still had time left at the end so I asked a bunch of questions and got her to share her experiences as well)

Someone from the Adcom interviewed me. She said she is specifically associated with Full Time MBA only. (Don't know why she said that) 1) Started with Why MBA and Why Kenan Flagler? (Told answer was well thought out) 2) Post this ALL questions were based on my Values, Kenan Flagler's Values, Leadership traits. 3) What are your values? Describe 2 instances of this value you demonstrated recently. (I had prepared for only one instance so the second instance I quoted was not convincing) 4) How would you motivate people not contributing in your team? 5) What makes you a collaborative leader (had used this term in previous answer). 6) asked any questions, I asked one question but she avoided answering it/deflected it. Overall 30 mins, there were no interruptions but seemed to ask lot of behavioral instances or demonstrated values in current job (I don't remember 1-2 of them).

Interviewer was a member of the admissions team, whose role is solely to interview MBA candidates. She asked the following questions: 1. Why an MBA, why Kenan-Flagler and why now? 2. Short/Long-term goals 3. TMAT you got constructive feedback 4. Which professional achievement are you most proud of? 5. TMAT you got constructive feedback 6. TMAT you had to give bad news to someone 7. 2-3 things the AdCom should know about you 8. What was a recent difficult situation you were in. How did you manage to get past it? 9. How do you balance all of your commitments/activities? 10. What do you think makes an effective team? After that she opened it up to any questions I had. Best of luck to anyone reading this and preparing for your interviews. You're going to do great!

Just had my interview with Joshua. (someone associated with UNC) 1-Why UNC KF? 2-ST & LT Goals 3-In your experience, you would've collaborated with a lot of teams. How would you bring your collaborative and leadership prowess to KF? 4-TMAT when you had a difficult colleague or something. 5-Greatest accomplishment 6-How have I contributed in either the personal or professional space to one or more values (4i) of UNC? (I mentioned this in Why UNC) 7-Any questions for him. The complete interview lasted 30-33 minutes and was very conversational.

I had my interview last night. The interviewer was someone called Joshua who definitely was not an adcom member but was somehow associated with KF. - Why UNC? - ST, LT Goals - In your experience you would’ve collaborated with a lot of teams. How would you bring your collaborative and leadership prowess to KF? - TMAT when you had to address someone coming late to work. How did you deal with that? - Personal accomplishment - What motivates you? - What Qs do you have for me? Interview lasted for exactly 20 minutes. 5-7 minutes for "What Qs do you have for me?".

My interview was with an external interviewer, but still very friendly and conversational. My questions: 1. Why MBA/Why UNC 2. What qualities will you bring to the MBA class 3. What are the values you live by that are most important to you 4. Biggest personal or professional accomplishment 5. What are you most looking forward to learning at UNC Basic follow up questions for some answers, but generally just spoke about his own experiences which related to mine. Had 10 minutes left for questions after. Almost felt like a chat with someone I was meeting casually for the first time

I had a good interview I think, the interviewer was super friendly, I don’t think she was 3rd party. These were the questions asked: 1. Why mba? Why now? 2. 3 things ad com should know about you 3. TMAT you had to give a bad news to someone (I took about 30 secs to gather my thoughts here) 4. Which values are the most important to you? 5. Short term goals 6. TMAT you got a constructive feedback She seemed pretty involved in my answers, no follow up questions but had some comments after every response like ‘yes I understand how it must have been for you etc.’ Still had around 5 mins for questions, I asked if she has had any weird/interesting interview experiences, laughed about them, spoke about life chapel hill, places she’s been to etc. very casual and informal like message

Just concluded my interview Taken by member of admissions and career staff Length:35 min 1. TMA your career trajectory 2. Why MBA 3. Why now 4. Why Kenan-Flagler 5. ST and LT goals ( he asked me to answer them in any order) 6. A challenge you faced during work and how did you overcome that challenge 7. TMAT you received a constructive feedback 8. What according to you differentiates a leader from a manager 9. Any questions for me ( I asked two) Overall very chill and conversational interview

I just had my UNC KF's AdCom interview. The interviewer (Jean Elia) was a very senior representative of AdCom itself. She's worked at Kenan for 25 years (with 10 years in the Dean's Office and for some duration as the Chief Education Officer as well) & was the initiator of the Online MBA program at Kenan back in the day. She mentioned that she retired 3-years ago and now participates in these Admissions Interviews in a way to give back to the school and community in whatever way possible. The entire conversation was very formal throughout the interview questions and then, in the end, it switched to completely informal. She had a set of questions that she asked in order - 1. Why an MBA at this point in your career? What are your short-term goals? 2. Why Kenan Flagler is the right place for you to get an MBA? 3. What makes you unique or different than your peers? 4. How would your manager describe you? 5. What was a recent difficult situation you were in? How did you manage to go past it? 6. What do you think is the difference between a Leader and a Manager? 7. What motivates you? 8. What does leadership mean to you and what's your leadership style? 9. What two or three things beyond your application would you want the Admissions Committee to remember about you? 10. Any questions for her? She was very warm and considerate. She took her time to listen to and understand each word of my answer and prompted me to repeat wherever required (because of intermediate network issues as Kenan has its own Interview portal instead of Zoom or Google Meet). At the end, she mentioned that she loved talking to me and that it was a great conversation!

I had a good interview I think, the interviewer was super friendly, I don’t think she was 3rd party. These were the questions asked: 1. Why mba? Why now? 2. 3 things ad com should know about you 3. TMAT you had to give a bad news to someone (I took about 30 secs to gather my thoughts here) 4. Which values are the most important to you? 5. Short term goals 6. TMAT you got a constructive feedback She seemed pretty involved in my answers, no follow up questions but had some comments after every response like ‘yes I understand how it must have been for you etc.’ Still had around 5 mins for questions, I asked if she has had any weird/interesting interview experiences, laughed about them, spoke about life chapel hill, places she’s been to etc. very casual and informal