What if you get that coveted invitation to interview coming from HBS itself? Or Stanford. Or Wharton. Or fill in the blanks with that one school whose name in the sender line in your Inbox would make your heart skip a beat. Then what? What do you do, say, wear, project, gush about? Equally importantly, what do you NOT?
First things first though. Congratulations! Receiving an MBA admissions interview invite is excellent news. It means you are “admissible” and they are interested in you. An admissions reviewer, after a preliminary evaluation of your candidacy, deemed you potentially worthy of being offered a seat in their MBA class. All your hard work on the test, the essays, the application forms has paid off. But the race is far from over. Harvard describes an invitation to interview as “a positive indicator of interest but not a guarantee of admission”. At this point, the offer is yours to win. So how do you do it?
You strategize and prep. Here is a quick framework for you to use. The three most important parts to focus on are your story, your examples, and time management. Let’s quickly break each one down:
How to ace your MBA admissions interview