Welcome to another installment of Wiki Wednesdays! We’re happy to report that the site is going strong and growing steadily, now with over 150 pieces of content since launch. Over the past week, we received our first INSEAD interview report, as well as new content for the Chicago, Tuck, Kellogg, Wharton, Stanford and Columbia interview pages. There have also been some interesting and informative additions to the school visit sections. For instance, this Cornell applicant has some great things to say about Johnson’s students:
“I found my way over to campus, parked, and walked to Sage Hall. Not 30 feet into the building, the school’s character was illustrated: I stood before a map of the building, looking for the admissions office. A student who was walking by immediately approached me and asked if she could help me find my way. She kindly pointed me in the right direction. The school is super-easy to get around, as it’s a square building with a square atrium in the middle.”
The poster’s feelings about the facilities, meanwhile, were a bit more mixed:
“I only saw one classroom, but my first impression was simple: ‘Blackboards?!? In this day and age?’ The classroom was only mediocre compared to the other B-school classrooms I’ve seen, and this was surprising considering [that] everything else in Sage Hall was new and modern.”
Now that MIT has finally begun to release interview invitations, we also wanted to highlight some additions that have been made to the Sloan interview page over the past few weeks. Many applicants are reporting that the topic of something impressive or exciting that has happened over the past year is a popular question with interviewers this season (this was actually one of the school’s required essay questions last year, so it makes sense that the adcom would still be interested in this). In the course of providing some personal commentary on each of the questions asked, one applicant offers a great piece of advice about the merits of anticipating questions in preparation while remaining flexible in the interview:
“Tell me about a time you worked with someone you didn’t want to work with. (simple rephrase of a difficult interaction question. Something you should note while preparing is you shouldn’t be too rigid with your preparation such that if you receive a slight variation or reworded question you have a difficult time relating it to a more common or broader question.)”
Finally, we’d like to introduce a new page we’ve just added to the Wiki this week. The new School Choices section is intended as a forum for applicants to express the reasoning behind their decisions regarding which schools to apply to and/or attend. Our hope is that reading about others’ rationale will help applicants learn from the experiences of people who have been in their position, and perhaps lead them to consider elements they had not yet taken into account. We’re looking forward to reading some great content on this page as the admissions season progresses.
