Wharton MBA面试选择的几个问题

sightview: 在美国工作，收到Wharton面试。09年秋天已经访问过Wharton校园以及Class Visit，请问面试选择那种形式好？On-Campus or Alumni ，这两种形式分量相同么？

如果选择当地Alumni面试，要注意什么？听说一般来说年纪大一点的校友比较nice。还有行业背景是和自己类似的好，还是差别大的好？谢谢！

dongfengCA: Usually on campus is better according the books and forums I read. But the school claims that there's no difference. Since it is blind interview, I think the difference will be minor.

I think it is true that elder people are nicer, not only in interview but common sense.
Most of the time similar background is very important since you will have more topics to talk and the interviewer would be more interested in you.

jelt2359: There will be more than enough topics to talk about- it is only half an hour.

We claim there's no difference, because there isn't. It makes no sense to penalise someone for making a choice that we had given to him.

That aside, general tips: remember that they're not there to be your friend. That's one key way this is different from a job interview. In a job interview, a senior interviewer may be thinking 'how well will this guy produce?'; a junior interviewer may be thinking 'how well will we work together'? Neither of those are true here. The school doesn't care about your ability to produce, nor about your chemistry with an interviewer.

They're also not there to judge 'am I interested in this guy? Is he a good conversationalist? Are there many topics that we can discuss?' In a job interview, it is crucial that you connect with the interviewer because you'll be working together and spending a lot of time together. In a business school interview, your interviewer might never see you again. Hence, the school is not in the business of dinging people simply because an interviewer writes 'I didn't connect with him'.

Instead, they're there to see how you present yourself, how sincere and honest your answers are, and so on. It's one thing to 'write' about a career goal, but quite another to see a person try to talk about it in a sincere and honest way.

That, BTW, is why we ask rather standard questions, for which you probably have all the answers well-rehearsed. We're not trying to judge the content of your questions- all those are already in your application. Neither are we there to throw you curve balls- we're not there to judge how quickly you think on your feet. Rather, we want to look at how honest and sincere you are.

Sometimes, looking into the eye of an applicant can tell the interviewer if the applicant doesn't truly believe or know why he wants his own career goal. This is PARTICULARLY true for those who have gone through 'consultants' who tell them, 'you should write this in order to get in'.

Good luck!

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