Booth 2012 - Calling All Applicants

Good to hear... seems like most schools have a ~50% acceptance rate for those who ARE interviewed...

This is why I'm going to Chicago for my interview... Got to visit the campus at some point anyway...

Good luck lagtag. When are you going to be on campus?

Keep it short. No bios. Say you were paired with him and you'd like to set up a time that's mutually convenient. That's it.

Good luck to everyone on your interviews. I'll be on campus tomorrow helping out in case you're interviewing and want to chat.

LOL...that was a huge typo. Sorry, that's exactly what I meant. I double checked my original post and was like, well what I wrote doesn't make sense - my beginning sentence and the paragraph doesn't match!

The reason why I don't think schools "bucket" applicants the way WE think they do is because I've attended mock admissions committee reviews of actual apps at Wharton, Kellogg, Stern, etc. and the adcoms at all of these schools said that they do not bucket applicants because it's impossible to do so. Do you bucket by gender? Do you bucket by professional background? Do you bucket by post MBA career goals? People fall into too many different buckets to determine which one to put them in.

Now that doesn't mean that they don't evaluate people in comparison to the overall pool and what's needed for the diversity of the class. I'm just saying it's not a simple categorization and one of the adcoms at Wharton even said that they don't put two consultants' apps together and compare them head to head.

Obviously there's some time of system/process they use to say, "Okay we've got too many of this 'type'," but it's impossible to know exactly what type the adcom will put you in because we all fall across so many. That's why I say schools don't definitively bucket people (at least not the ones I've visited).

Hi all, finished my interview on-campus yesterday. The interview was done by an alumnus.

The questions were (not in the same order)
-What are your goals?
-Walk me through your resume
-Tell me about your community service
-Why MBA?
-Why now?
-How would your colleagues describe you?
-Why that industry post-MBA?

One of the current students said that he received a call from adcom when he was admitted. Is this the case for every admitted applicant? I understand that the official notification date is Dec 14th. Does anyone know if they start notifying admitted applicants earlier than that?

Hi guys!

I've seen an interview question that I've not clear: "tell me about yourself".

Would it be the same than "walk me through resume"?

Thank you all!

More or less the same. Maybe the latter suggests you to introduce more about what included on your resume, say more related to your career.

Thanks for the heads up. The interview questions sound fairly generic. Did the alum focus on Why Booth? or what you want to get involved in at Booth?

Good luck with the final decision!

He seemed to be more curious about what I would like to contribute to Booth community than why Booth.

The two interview reports on Clear Admit both have this question.

To current Booth student(s):

Does Booth call admitted candidates prior to the decision deadline? If so, how many days in advance?

Thanks,
Sony Remote

Hi SonyRemote, do you have the same problem of having recevied an invite from Booth and not from Ross? I am in the same boat and wonder what's going on with Ross. At least for interviews, Ross is not known to be as selective as Booth.

Hello Everyone,

I did my interview with a Booth alumni at a coffee shop in Boston last night. The interview was about an hour in length. The questions were:

Walk me through your resume.
Why do you want an MBA?
What are your goals?
Why Booth?
Tell me about a time you had to give difficult feedback to someone working for you.
Tell me about a time someone gave you constructive criticism/feedback. What did you learn?
What is your leadership style?
What classes do you plan on taking at Booth?
What cities do you plan on living in, in the future?
What is your favorite super hero? Why?
What is a powerful childhood memory? Why?
What is your favorite toy? Why?

The interview was pretty intense and we covered a lot of ground. It started out with questions I knew to expect from reading previous accounts, but then he started throwing me some real curve balls. I think it went really well though. He started off pretty serious and wasn't giving much away with his expression or body language, but by the end he was smiling and laughing. He said he thought I would make a great student-teacher for the LEAD program, so I hope that's a good sign. In addition to all the questions he spent a lot of time telling me stories about Booth and comparing it to other programs. He had a lot of good advice that I really appreciated. Now I just have to keep my fingers crossed and hope for good news on Dec 14th!

I have mine in Boston this week. Those are some definite odd ball questions towards the end.

kudos! thanks for sharing!