Advice from Clear Admit: Understanding the MBA Admissions Interview, Part II
This post has been republished in its entirety from its original source clearadmit.com. This is the second in Clear Admit’s three-part series on the MBA admissions interview. In case you missed it, view Part I here.
Okay—now that you’re clear on open interviews and interviews by invitation, let’s get into some of the finer points. What’s this about blind versus non-blind interviews, you ask? Some schools believe strongly in the notion of blind interviews, which means that your interviewer will know nothing about you in advance of the interview other than what appears on the resume you give them. Continue reading…
Advice from Clear Admit: Understanding the MBA Admissions Interview, Part I
This post has been republished in its entirety from its original source clearadmit.com.
With Harvard Business School (HBS) slated to issue its first batch of invitations today, the MBA admissions world is buzzing about one thing: INTERVIEWS. HBS, of course, is not alone. At Dartmouth’s Tuck School of Business, which features applicant-initiated interviews, hopeful candidates have been traipsing back and forth to Hanover already for several weeks. And Columbia Business School (CBS) has also already been busy interviewing applicants for its Early Decision Round.
With so much interview anxiety in the air—and knowing that it only stands to build from here—we’ve decided to devote this week at Clear Admit to all things interview. We’re getting the ball rolling with this multi-part series, which we like to think of as an MBA Admissions Interview Primer of sorts. In it, we’ll unpack the different types of interviews—open, invited, blind, non-blind, resume-based, behavioral-based, team-based, etc.—and take a look at why particular schools choose the interview variations they do. Along the way, we’ll offer some tips for how best to prepare for each and explore a few of the more interesting wrinkles in the world of MBA interviews.
When all is said and done, you still may not feel fully ready to ace that HBS interview, but you’ll have a much firmer grasp on the MBA interview landscape as a whole, which we hope will better prepare you for interviews at all of your target schools. Continue reading…
