Essay 1 (Maximum 300 words) Describe a defining moment in your life. How has it shaped you professionally? Essay 2 (Maximum 300 words) Based on your research and interactions, describe how your strengths contribute to the Tepper School community. How will you benefit from being a member of the Tepper School MBA program?

Hi All, I am getting a lot of requests for mock interviews. I can do 1-2 mock interviews on skype if you require any help on the interview prep. Please do note that there will be a fee associated with that process as there is a time commitment and application review. Do let me know should you require any help.

Hello, I was interviewed yesterday. It lasted for exactly 30 minutes, and the interviewer hadn't read my application, and it was mentioned that it's on purpose. It was mostly a behavioural interview, and very comfortable and conversational. Here are the questions I was asked: 1. Brief run-down of my resume. Where did I study? What did I do in my previous job? Why did I quit? What am I doing now? 2. What are my short term goals? And what's plan B? 3. How many people do you manage? Tell me about a time when you acted as a leader? 4. Tell me about a time when a person refused to do the work assigned to him or her. 5. What did you do when someone rubbed you off on the wrong side? 6. ... when you had to change your behaviour during cross-cultural interaction? 7. Why MBA and why Tepper? And what questions do you have for us? I guess mostly that was it. It went off really well, much better than I thought it would. Just keeping fingers crossed now. Good luck to everyone else!

19% invited to interview? I hope invitations keep coming because I expected double of this.

Just got through the interview. I had it scheduled before I got the Duke admit, so decided to go ahead with it instead of cancelling on the day. Standard questions, all expected, since I had interviewed with Tepper last year as well. 1. Brief run-down of Resume. What are you doing professionally? 2. Why MBA? Why Now? 3. Why Tepper? 4. How will you contribute at Tepper? 5. How will your sub-ordinates describe you? Followed by any questions for him. I will be withdrawing my application in the next few days, but still wanted to get through the interview. All the best guys! Let me know if anyone has questions.

Looking at the numbers from last year, I would definitely expect at least one more round of interview invites for Round 1 applicants, if not more. There were quite a number of interview time slots available when I signed up, even going until the end of November. I would not be overly worried if you have not received an invite yet.

any new invites this week? Does anyone have any idea or information about whether they will be rolling out more invites for this round? Really hoping they send out invites over the next week

Should I wear a tie for a skype interview? On one hand I think it is always a good idea to be completely safe, but on the other hand I feel for a skype interview, being too formal could be strange. Any thoughts/experience to share?