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Are they still sending the invite ?
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Are they still sending the invite ?

I received an interview invite yesterday.

Also, I emailed admissions and they told me they were going to invite until the deadline in march.

Best wishes! Don’t lose hope 💪🏻
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I received an interview invite yesterday.

Also, I emailed admissions and they told me they were going to invite until the deadline in march.

Best wishes! Don’t lose hope 💪🏻
Happy to hear this...
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Hey guys, whoever interviewed with Darden recently could you please share your interview experience
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25 minutes long: TMAY, Why MBA, Why Darden, Questions for interviewer. (My interviewer seemed to be in a hurry/not-interested, asked to finish answers fast. I was cut in between a couple of times to finish fast.).
Takeaway: Keep answers crisp.

I am not sure, finishing interview so fast is a good sign or a bad sign (Haha)
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I recently interviewed with Darden on 3rd Feb with Adcom Officer, following are the questions she asked me:
1) Tell me about your childhood
2) Then about the career and academics
3) For me, I am pivoting my role from Banking to Retail so the reasons for that.
4) Why MBA? Why Darden and Why MBA now? What do you feel about the case method?
5) Situation based question- if anybody is not working to their potential, how would you deal with it?
6) what do you do when you are not working?
7) questions for me.

Also, they begin their conversation from a small talk, like what were you doing on a weekend, or how was day, something like this.
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I recently interviewed with Darden on 3rd Feb with Adcom Officer, following are the questions she asked me:
1) Tell me about your childhood
2) Then about the career and academics
3) For me, I am pivoting my role from Banking to Retail so the reasons for that.
4) Why MBA? Why Darden and Why MBA now? What do you feel about the case method?
5) Situation based question- if anybody is not working to their potential, how would you deal with it?
6) what do you do when you are not working?
7) questions for me.

Also, they begin their conversation from a small talk, like what were you doing on a weekend, or how was day, something like this.
That’s helpful. And how long did it last approximately?
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I recently interviewed with Darden on 3rd Feb with Adcom Officer, following are the questions she asked me:
1) Tell me about your childhood
2) Then about the career and academics
3) For me, I am pivoting my role from Banking to Retail so the reasons for that.
4) Why MBA? Why Darden and Why MBA now? What do you feel about the case method?
5) Situation based question- if anybody is not working to their potential, how would you deal with it?
6) what do you do when you are not working?
7) questions for me.

Also, they begin their conversation from a small talk, like what were you doing on a weekend, or how was day, something like this.
That’s helpful. And how long did it last approximately?
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Thank you guys for sharing
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Hi! Is Darden known to call and inform on being accepted? Or do we wait till 12th March to find out?
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Hi! Is Darden known to call and inform on being accepted? Or do we wait till 12th March to find out?
Decisions are usually communicated through email or via the admissions portal, there might be rare exceptions as well, but we can expect to wait until the official notification date.

Also, there’s a message above, someone checked with the adcom on email regarding the interview invites and they informed that they will send invites until the deadline in march, so good luck everyone!
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25 minutes long: TMAY, Why MBA, Why Darden, Questions for interviewer. (My interviewer seemed to be in a hurry/not-interested, asked to finish answers fast. I was cut in between a couple of times to finish fast.).
Takeaway: Keep answers crisp.

I am not sure, finishing interview so fast is a good sign or a bad sign (Haha)
Thanks for sharing your experience karanw98 ! A rushed interviewer doesn’t necessarily mean a bad outcome, may be it happened because of time constraints and back-to-back scheduled interview sessions. As you mentioned, the key takeaway is to keep answers crisp and structured, especially in such situation. What matters is whether you were able to get your key points across effectively, no need to overthink it. Stay confident : ) Good luck!
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Is Darden still expected to release invites or are they mostly done?
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I think my interview was a bit rushed as well/did not go very well
1) We spent the first 3-4 minutes getting acquainted and discussing dogs since my interviewer’s dog was in the background
2) I then gave my interviewer a rundown of my personal, educational, professional history, and hobbies
3) They then asked me to tell them why I want to do an MBA what are my short term goals long term goals etc ( I think I screwed up here, although they didn’t clearly ask me to tell them why I want to go to Darden, I should have talked about it in the why MBA part
4) We then discussed how I have handled diversity at work place- I answered with examples
5) Was also asked how I have grown as professional- I talked about how I have become more adaptable- with examples again
6) Then I answered the- how do I plan to contribute to the Darden community
7) We then went on to discuss the questions that I had for my interviewer

I feel that I really messed up the Why Darden part- although I wasn’t asked that specifically it seems that everyone has talked about it in their interviews, so I should have used some window somewhere to talk about it...
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Was it a student or AdCom?
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Adcom

I feel I screwed up big time lol
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Don’t worry! I very vaguely remember seeing in one of the GC YouTube videos that the more prospective candidates are interviewed by AdCom!

I’ll try finding it, but I am not sure how true it is!! So please take it with a grain of salt!
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