UCLA
Introduction

UCLA is among my R2 choices. I received the invitation shortly after I obtain the digital ID. This time, I planned a campus visit. A bad decision was to stay near LAX, from where the traffic is bad to UCLA in the morning. I was almost late but arrived at the admissions office 5 minutes before the appointment.

A second-year male student interviewed and he has some similar but not exact background as mine.

Questions

1. Walk me through your resume.
2. Why MBA, LT/ST goals, Why Wharton, why now?
3. If you can hand-pick you team at UCLA, how will you do it?
4. What is an ideal AMR project due to your career goals?
5. A technical question.
6. What are you hobbies?

Lessons

I was better prepared this time. My answers are not very crisp, perhaps a little wordy. This makes the conversation longer. Overall, the interviewer was friendly and tried to create conversational setting for the interview, but I failed to build more connection with him. He replied to my thank you note.