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Hi had mine in London yesterday with Kathryn Bezella from the adcom. Was a very nice 30 min chat. She made me really feel at ease and it did not really feel like an interview more of her trying to get to know me better to be honest. I have been really impressed by the quality of Wharton people I have met so far - either alums or current students and now adcom people. I really hope that I was able to make my case for a spot...here is hoping!

I do wonder if everyone who has interviewed has had such a good time then how do they really decide who to offer a place. I mean really what do they look for?
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Any feedback from the folks interviewing in UK this week?

Hi had mine in London yesterday with Kathryn Bezella from the adcom. Was a very nice 30 min chat. She made me really feel at ease and it did not really feel like an interview more of her trying to get to know me better to be honest. I have been really impressed by the quality of Wharton people I have met so far - either alums or current students and now adcom people. I really hope that I was able to make my case for a spot...here is hoping!

I do wonder if everyone who has interviewed has had such a good time then how do they really decide who to offer a place. I mean really what do they look for?
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Hi singhshb,

Would you mind sharing what kind of questions were asked? I completed an interview with a Columbia alum and she was super friendly. Really does make you wonder what exactly they're looking for? Hopefully, its just a checkmark.
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Any feedback from the folks interviewing in UK this week?

Hi had mine in London yesterday with Kathryn Bezella from the adcom. Was a very nice 30 min chat. She made me really feel at ease and it did not really feel like an interview more of her trying to get to know me better to be honest. I have been really impressed by the quality of Wharton people I have met so far - either alums or current students and now adcom people. I really hope that I was able to make my case for a spot...here is hoping!

I do wonder if everyone who has interviewed has had such a good time then how do they really decide who to offer a place. I mean really what do they look for?


Hi singhshb,

Would you mind sharing what kind of questions were asked? I completed an interview with a Columbia alum and she was super friendly. Really does make you wonder what exactly they're looking for? Hopefully, its just a checkmark.
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The questions were the same that people have been posting on this forum/other blogs. I was only asked one behavioural question which makes me a bit worried as to why she did not ask any others - any views? My interview sort of flowed - started with talking about my resume which then lead to the question on managing people with conflicting views (specific to my job) and then why MBA. So there was nothing out of the blue to be honest. I was not sure how much do you have to labour on about Wharton as her question was not why Wharton so I never went in to too much detail about the rigour of the course etc that appeal to me but kept it simple and just stressed the point that I have worked with several alum and know many current students so understand the school pretty well - in hindsight perhaps I should have talked more about how my finance background fits in with the school but I hope that they read my interview feedback in conjunction with my application as I have answered the question there.

I suppose I felt it went too quick and may be because I spent a lot of time going through my example and she also asked me for details which I provided. I don't even think people need to script examples because in the interview it all sort of flows without having to make any effort (or at least that is how I felt)

What I really want to know is how do they assess the interviews because it feels strange to think that everyone who interviews thinks it was quite ok....no clue on what they are really trying to get out of it!
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I was also wondering how they are going to make final decisions based on interviews. But let's have a little survey, so we can see later how much our interviews affected admissions results.

A. On the scale of 10 how well did you connect with your interviewer? (1 - absolutely did not connect with my interviewer, 10 - i felt the interviewer and I were incredibly engaged).

B. On the scale of 10 how do you feel about your behavioral stories? (1 - my stories were either dull or I had hard time expressing myself clearly, 10 - my stories were incredibly vivid, so that my interviewer would probably share them with his/her friends over a cocktail party).

Also, let's add who was the interviewer (2nd year student, ad-com, Skype with adcom, etc).

My results would be:
Adcom
A: 9
B: 7
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I was also wondering how they are going to make final decisions based on interviews. But let's have a little survey, so we can see later how much our interviews affected admissions results.

A. On the scale of 10 how well did you connect with your interviewer? (1 - absolutely did not connect with my interviewer, 10 - i felt the interviewer and I were incredibly engaged).

B. On the scale of 10 how do you feel about your behavioral stories? (1 - my stories were either dull or I had hard time expressing myself clearly, 10 - my stories were incredibly vivid, so that my interviewer would probably share them with his/her friends over a cocktail party).

Also, let's add who was the interviewer (2nd year student, ad-com, Skype with adcom, etc).

My results would be:
Adcom
A: 9
B: 7
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For me:
2nd yr student
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B: 6
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2nd year student.

A: 4 (I didn't connect with my interviewer. She was shy and very different background. Very nice, but didn't connect much).
B: 8

It seems like you guys really connected with your interviewers? It's the luck of the draw, I guess.
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Ah well what the heck...not like I have something to do till 20th anyways!
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A: 7
B: 7

PS: My interview was on the 17th so would request someone more evolved to please calculate the standard deviation of these self reported scores as a function of the interview date!
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A: 4 (i felt my interviewer was disengaged at times... maybe tired of hearing similar stories)
B: 5 (felt stories were average... I had a hard time expressing myself as I really wasn't feeling well that day)
Adcom

I'm hoping for a miracle. Definitely didn't do as well as I would've liked.
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I just got back from my interview today with a 2nd year student. The 3 questions asked were the same as what has been detailed elsewhere here and on the ClearAdmit wiki. My interviewer almost didn't seem to care what I said for the "Walk me through your resume" piece since he only took notes (a copious amount) on the behavioral questions. What threw me off a bit was that he didn't ask any followup questions to my answers. I couldn't tell if this was a bad or good sign (did I hit all the relevant points or did he just not care if I screwed up?), since my interviewer was impossible to read.

The interview was also very quick - 25 minutes. I felt bad for those who had to travel all the way to Philly for such a short evaluation. I'm also not sure how Wharton would use their style of interview to differentiate between admit and deny decisions - as others have said, it felt more suited to be a "checkmark" and nothing much more.

Overall, the experience (interview + class visit later that day) was very neutral, and didn't really sway my interest level in either direction.
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I just got back from my interview today with a 2nd year student. The 3 questions asked were the same as what has been detailed elsewhere here and on the ClearAdmit wiki. My interviewer almost didn't seem to care what I said for the "Walk me through your resume" piece since he only took notes (a copious amount) on the behavioral questions. What threw me off a bit was that he didn't ask any followup questions to my answers. I couldn't tell if this was a bad or good sign (did I hit all the relevant points or did he just not care if I screwed up?), since my interviewer was impossible to read.

The interview was also very quick - 25 minutes. I felt bad for those who had to travel all the way to Philly for such a short evaluation. I'm also not sure how Wharton would use their style of interview to differentiate between admit and deny decisions - as others have said, it felt more suited to be a "checkmark" and nothing much more.

Overall, the experience (interview + class visit later that day) was very neutral, and didn't really sway my interest level in either direction.
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will you be giving a tour this Wed/Thurs? I'll be visiting penn from HK for my interview on Thurs.
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will you be giving a tour this Wed/Thurs? I'll be visiting penn from HK for my interview on Thurs.
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No, there will be a tour, but I'm not giving another til next week.

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I had a minor in business in college and took two calculus classes, accounting, finance (including advanced finance classes), operations, marketing. Statistics is a part of the CFA curriculum. Still clueless about what I can do... Thanks for suggestion though!

I would call and ask them about it. That kind of sounds like a mistake to be honest. Pretty sure the CFA curriculum is more difficult than most quantitative classes you would take in an MBA program. And your quant GMAT score is higher than mine and I didn't get that email...

Yes, I think I will call them. Just wondering whether any other non-quantitative-major folks got the same e-mail?
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Hi Nikini, did you find out what's going on? i also received this email last wk.
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I had my interview a few weeks back and my experience was very pleasant. My interviewer was a second year student who started the interview a bit early, explained the process and we went right into the questions. Because I knew what most of the questions would be I made sure to kill two or three birds with one stone (this is my advice to those who have yet to complete an interview). That allowed us to get into several behavioral questions. On a few occasions my interviewer pressed me for details but I didn't take it as an attempt to poke holes through my story; rather it was an opportunity to understand my thought process and assess my development over time.

Overall I felt we made a good connection. Towards the end I received some feedback in terms of what they thought were some of the unique contributions I could bring to the Wharton community. The interview went about 40 minutes.

In providing advice for those out there that have not interviewed yet I would underscore one important point. Be yourself and be honest about your strengths and weaknesses. No interviewer likes an arrogant self-absorbed a**hole who thinks just because he/she pushed pencils on a $250million dollar deal they are entitled to an ivy league education. You're not in undergrad anymore where you're surrounded by people of varying intellectual abilities. EVERYONE interviewing at these schools is smart -- but not everyone is humble.
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[quote="heytherela
Oh, man! I feel so bad for your experience. So, if wharton finally give u an offer, for sure you will turn it down?[/quote]

I sure hope so.
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Just want to add to the comment above.

First, let me be clear: i am applying to 3 schools and Wharton is my 3rd choice out of all 3. That said, I had the complete opposite experience to the person above when I went for a visit to the school. I found that of all places I had been to the Wharton student body seemed the most sociable and the place seemed like a lot of fun.

I found everyone helpful and although I agree that Philly isn't the greatest city in the world i actually found the campus quite pristine and picturesque

Everyone is entitled to their opinion I guess, but wanted to give mine as well

Hope this is helpful
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I can definitely relate to some of the points raised. I had a hard time arriving at the interview place and the 'basement' wasn't that attractive at all, specially compared to the state-of-the-art facilities at other b-schools.

And yes, it was China town meets little India. But, that could be said of the whole of Penn and not just Wharton. I was also the only one interviewing on my timeslot that wasn't in finance or consulting. And most hailed from NYC.

My interview was short and felt mechanical since the poor 2nd year student had probably been asking and hearing about the same topics for a while. But it wasn't unpleasant. I'm very outgoing and my interviewer was more reserved and shy but I'm not sure that's necessarily a bad thing.

I didn't interact with other students at events because I had been to Penn in the past and some of my close friends went to Wharton. I know what the students are like already and I just wanted to be done with my interview to fly back home.

My opinion is that nor Wharton or Penn are places that 'wows' you at first sight as HBS, for example, does.
However, I'd say my experience was simply neutral. Wharton is a strong school and I'd choose to go there over any other except for HBS and maybe S.

Fit might be very important when looking at smaller programs but I think there's a place for everyone at Wharton and it's somewhat natural not to fall in love with the school or Philly at first sight.

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I agree with mpg and somewhat with the other angry poster. There's definitely not a WOW factor but I think that the students themselves really make Wharton an awesome place. I was a little dismayed that 1) they don't let you get online as a guest, and 2) they share huntsman with all the college kids. There was a point when classes ended that I didn't know who was actually a b-school student and who was an undergrad.

My interviewer and I didn't have that much in common but her field was something that I'm pretty interested in and she had a lot of great experiences to share. Outside of that, the interview itself was very mechanical (she even said at one point that "these are some mandatory questions i need to ask you.." and just jumped into it. More than anything, it almost felt like I was trying to be overfriendly to compensate for the lack of natural conversation. Either way, I think they just take your stories and add them to the file. I'm sure the interviewers can distinguish whether you're a person they'd want to be in a class with, but I dont' think it's as "science-y" as the way HBS conducts their interviews. I did meet a few other interviewees in their waiting room. It's a very small world to say the least as we all were probably one degree of separation from one another.

Glad it's done though!
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I'm having my phone interview this Thursday and this is what written in the email: "A member of the Admissions Committee will call you at the time below."

At the risk of sounding stupid, I believe that means a proper AdCom member and definitely not a 2nd year student? Just want to make sure because depending on who the interviewer is, the questions I'll ask will be different.

Thanks!
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My experience was okay, I agree that the on campus interview suite was confusing to find and the building was really old and slightly creepy. The actual admissions office is nice though, and the folks there were SUPER friendly and accommodating. I interviewed on one of the first days of on campus interviewing and my interviewer was really really nice/engaging - perhaps because he had not yet endured hours upon hours of asking the same questions and likely hearing very similar responses?

The city of Philly is what it is. I think it would be fun to live there as a Wharton student, because the community seems very close-knit and from what I hear the majority of students live in the same 5-6 buildings within just a few blocks of each other. Plus, train ride to NYC is less than an hour and a half! I imagine a lot of kids probably travel there on weekends since I don't think they have class on Friday and there's probably a lot of recruiting-related things happening there too.
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