Welcome to another installment of Wiki Wednesdays, reporting the latest goings on with the Clear Admit Wiki. Firstly, we’d like to say thanks to all the applicants who’ve been submitting interview reports lately! In the last two weeks alone, applicants have posted detailed descriptions of their interviews at a number of leading schools, including Chicago, Columbia, Harvard, Kellogg, Tuck, and Yale.
As we’ve stressed in this blog, and as anyone who’s used the site to prepare for their interviews will attest, having access to firsthand accounts of the interview process at a given program can be invaluable in understanding what a program is looking for and arriving at a feeling of readiness. With these reports in mind, applicants are in a great position to follow the advice posted by one recent Columbia interviewee:
My advice/tips: Prepare, prepare, prepare. This is an important piece of your application, as important as all the other pieces like GMAT or letters of reference. Do mock-up interviews with a coach, a friend, your wife/husband, whoever — but the more you know the answers to these questions, the more you will be successful on D-Day.
We already have two full seasons’ worth of interview accounts posted on the wiki, but we’re always hoping to build the resource further by encouraging applicants who’ve interviewed in the past few weeks to post their interview reports and campus visit accounts.For those wondering what sort of details to include in their wiki entries, we find that the most helpful and informative reports include the following information:
- Date/Admissions Round
- Description of visit and/or interview atmosphere
- Type of interview (alum vs. adcom, blind vs. application-based)
- List of interview questions
- Commentary (What did you think of the interview? What surprised you? What didn’t surprise you? What might you conclude about the school based on this experience?)
Applicants who would like to supplement the information available on the wiki and dig deeper into interview strategy can check out our Clear Admit Interview Guides, which are hot off the press. Thanks in advance for your interview reports!
