Welcome to this week’s edition of Wiki Wednesday, highlighting interesting and informative additions to the Clear Admit Wiki, our repository of information about the MBA admissions process. While there have been some great contributions to the Wharton, Tuck and Chicago interview pages this week, we’d like to focus on a report that was recently added to the Yale collection. This account of the SOM’s interview process – particularly the interesting note about length – could be very useful in helping other applicants prepare for their own interviews.
My interview was with a second year student. The conversation was fairly straight forward. No tough questions at all.
1. Go over your resume.
2. Before I finished with the first question, she asked me about why I needed to pursue an MBA, I also gave the answer of why now
3. Then the typical: Why Yale
All the above went in about fifteen minute (I felt, did not have time to watch time), then it was time for me to ask questions… The interview was weird as it was so short. When I came out of it it was less than thirty minutes and other interviewees had a similar experience because they all came out about the same time as I did. I checked for some afternoon interviewees and they all lasted less than thirty minutes.
Essentially, this account indicates that Yale applicants might want to provide as robust a resume walk-through as possible, as there might not be another chance to share information about their prior work experience.
As always, we’d like to extend our thanks to this contributor, and to all the others who have helped to build this resource. We hope that round one applicants will continue to post their reports to the wiki as they interview with their target programs. MBA aspirants are also welcome to post their campus visit experiences and share any issues they’ve encountered with the logistics of applying to any given school. Registration is easy and free!
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