Just had my interview- Saturday. I'm really happy with how it went- I had a wonderful alumni interviewer who had a great personality- someone who I would totally want to hang out with. I feel really good about it. When I walked in I was amidst several people that were waiting to interview- and they were all talking about the international market and blah blah- all very arrogant kind of- trying to show off to each other. I wished that I had some of you guys there so we could huddle in the corner giving each other pep-talks- and I was thinking, "oh god- i don't want to go to wharton if this is what it's all about." But when a group of them went in, the few of us remaining kind of looked at each other and started laughing- and then we started talking about real stuff- like how happy we were that it was almost over, etc.
For the interview I got the standard questions, but it flowed really well. I thank everyone for sharing their experiences because had I not been prepared, I may have been thrown.
1. Tell me about yourself- this was kind of a walk me through you resume, but he was very clear that I could do this in a relaxed way- which I did.
2. Why MBA, why now
3. Why Wharton
4. What do you feel may be your weakness in your application
5. What do you want to tell me/discuss that we haven't covered or you were unable to cover in your application.
That's pretty much it. I can't tell you how great this guy was and it really confirmed that I wanted to go to Wharton. I know that Wharton interviews aren't the deciding factors- but now I kind of wished they were.
So I think today is the last day of interviews so we're all in for the wait.....
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I had my on-campus interview last week. The questions were:
1. Why did you select the schools you did?
2. How did you make your career choices?
3. What did you learn at work that you did not learn in schools?
4. How do you work in teams?
5. How would your coworkers describe your leadership style?
6. Which two qualities would you want me to highlight in the interview report?
7. Have I asked you everything? What would you want me to ask that I haven't yet?
8. What are the weaknesses in your application?
9. What do you do outside of work?
10. Why MBA? Why Wharton? What do you want to do in your career? What would you do at Wharton?
11. Ask me some questions.
I felt good that I could generally project myself. Although, I think I harped on few points more than I should have and did not answer some questions to the best of my ability. Now, I feeling horrible.
I don't know what will happen. Earlier, found my DING notice from Chicago. So now am not sure.
Well, life will go on. I will be successful in any case. This is not the only path to success.
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Well, I had my interview last Friday with an Alumnus. It was absolutely horrible. The moment I walked in his office I was told to sit down and run through my resume. I was a little shocked. He did not ask me how I was doing or how was my trip to his office, nothing. So I started walking through my resume and almost immediately he started checking (and reading) his email. I couldn't believe it. At this point I lost focus. I began speaking too quickly and at one point I had to slow myself down.
About 1/3 the way through the resume he stopped me and said he wanted to move on. He highlighted a section of my resume and questioned the validity of my actual management responsibility. He said he understood how consulting ‘works’ and highly doubted I could have had so much responsibility at a young age. I can see how he might be skeptical, but he sure didn’t need to question my honesty.
After asking some basic questions (e.g. why Wharton, etc.) he proposed a very abstract hypothetical and asked me to explain how I would resolve the situation. I told him what I thought and he was very displeased. His words were something like ‘I wouldn’t expect you to be able to give an appropriate answer with the minimal amount of experience you have’. The comment was very disheartening to say the least.
He continued to ask questions while checking his email every minute or two. Believe it or not this is not all that happened. But, I guess at this point it doesn’t matter much. I think the part that frustrates me the most is that I have not heard of anyone else on these boards have an experience that remotely resembled mine. I was totally unprepared for what happened and I choked. I am very sad, as I am pretty confident my Wharton quest is over.
I would highly recommend to round 3 candidates that you interview on campus. I would bet a 1000 $ that 99.9% of Wharton alumni give a fair interview. But, is it worth the risk of getting a bad one? It wasn’t for me.
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