Another Application Update and Interview Questions Galore!

Application Updates – Earlier this week I found out that I have been invited to interview at Wharton!  Also, I completed my Columbia interview and feel pretty good about it.  I am crossing my fingers that I get a positive response soon but trying to not get my hopes up too high in case the final decision is not in my favor…

To celebrate, I am posting all the interview questions that I have collected from all corners of the internet!

• Why are you interested in an MBA?
• Why are you interested in our school?
• Tell me a little about yourself
• Walk me through your resume
• Discuss a time when you were a leader
• What are your strengths
• What are your weaknesses
• What kind of instrument would you be and why?
• Why should we accept you?
• What are your short term career goals?

Application Updates – Harvard and Columbia News

It has been quite a couple of weeks!   I kept meaning to get a post up with my MBA Application updates, but wasn’t able to until today.   Here are my MBA updates (in chronological order):

10/9 – 10/11

As a lot of you know, after submitting MBA applications the waiting game begins.   The first possible day I could have heard any news on my MBA applications was 10/9,  which is the first day that Harvard releases their interview invitations.   The admissions blog is very clear; the first batch is released at noon on 10/9 and the second batch of invites are released at noon on 10/16.  At 12:30 on 10/9 I checked my inbox…nothing from Harvard.  I continued checking my inbox every hour on the hour…still nothing.   I started to get anxious and I asked myself all of the questions most people who were hoping for an invite were asking themselves, “did I mess something up on my application?”,  “was my profile not as strong as I had hoped?”, and most importantly, “how does this bode for my other applications?”.

The MBA Video Essay

Today I am thanking my lucky stars that I do not have to do a video essay.  I feel for everyone applying to Kellogg, Yale and Rotman.  A friend of mine is a R1 applicant to Kellogg and will be among the first group of applicants to experience the video essay at that school.  A lot of the MBA application process has been thoroughly documented (e.g.: how to structure an essay, pick an essay topic and how to interview), but the video essay topic has less information about it.  The internet has even less Kellogg specific information about the video essay because it is their first year doing it.  I wanted to help her by finding out what I could about the topic and throwing some questions out there to the folks that read my blog:

• Has anyone done the video essay yet at any of these schools?  
• What are the questions they ask?  
• How did you prepare?