With round two decisions out from the top programs, things are winding down for the season in the MBA admissions world. For those still in the midst of the process, though, we have a few new items to highlight in our Yale, Harvard and Stern Interview pages. One report from an HBS applicant confirms the trademark poker faces and tough follow up questions of adcom members:
“Here are some questions [the interviewer] asked:
1. What is your role at work?
2. What project are you working on?
3. Short term and long term career goals?
4. How can an MBA help you to achieve your goals?
5. What would you do if MBA was not an option for you?
6. Tell me a time when you helped someone to succeed?
7. What movies and books do you like?
These are fairly basic questions as you may know. However, she didn’t stop at my first responses. She drilled down to get more details from me. She was really good at follow up questions and in fact follow up questions were even harder than the initial ones. In addition, she didn’t give away too many hints nor feedback at all. It was quite hard to read her.”
While NYU Stern is similar to HBS in that they conduct interviews after having read an applicant’s entire file, it’s generally a more friendly experience. Here are some interesting questions from a recent addition to the wiki:
“She only had my resume in front of her and told me she had read my application. Right away she asked a question about my 3rd essay (the personal one) which was expected b/c I had ended that essay specifically with a question that would be asked if I ever met with Stern. Other q’s:
How did you end up here today?
What are you most excited about coming back to school?
What will your co-workers miss about you when you leave?”
That’s all for now. As mentioned above, it’s been a somewhat slow week for the Clear Admit Wiki as things draw to a close for the 2005-06 admissions cycle. We’d still love to hear from applicants who have completed interviews or are making the choice between schools, so please email us if you’d like to get a username and password and post your experiences. We’d also love to hear from those of you who have used the wiki as a resource and now have stories of your own to add to the mix!
We’ll likely be making Wiki Wednesdays a less frequent feature until things pick up again next fall, but will definitely be highlighting new and noteworthy content from time to time – so stay tuned!
