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($) Should you contact admissions about a bad interviewer?

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Your MBA admissions interview was awful. It was not just bad; it was horrible. The reason? BECAUSE YOUR INTERVIEWER WAS LOUSY. What do you do????? Before deciding to complain about an MBA interview experience, make sure to evaluate as much as you possibly can from the other side of the table. You need to get...

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($) Do you change tactics if you’re interviewing with a student?

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Our MBA Interviewing Guide breaks down the types of interviews (blind vs open) and who is conducting them (students, alumni, adcom) in greater detail, and of course you’re likely stalking the admissions forums and hearing about others’ experiences. So you probably already know the common setup at your target school. Despite our title today, we’ll...

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($) Should you be researching your MBA interviewer before your interview?

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Most people will want to research the person that they will be meeting with. If you know who your MBA interviewer will be, should you do that? Should you do a bunch of Googling and Linked-In’ing and other social media stalking to find out all the intimate details of this person’s life? Some basic LinkedIn...

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Interview Tips

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Or something… 😉 h/t @KimWhitler     If you’ve gotten an invitation to interview at a top business school, our best tip is to PRACTICE! Have a friend sit down with you and go over some standard questions — like, what are your career goals? Why do you want an MBA? Why are you interested […]

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($) MIT Sloan MBA’s interview-invite essay on the “mission” and creating a welcoming environment

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For anyone interviewing at MIT Sloan: Here’s some advice that we offered in response to a Round 1 BSer looking for input on their idea for essay topic for the “mission” prompt that MIT asks you to write about when they invite you to interview. Here’s the prompt that they give you: The mission of...

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($) The worst question you can ask your interviewer.

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People are starting to prep for interviews – exciting! We’ve gone over the importance of the questions that you ask your MBA interviewer before, and today we’ll offer up one question that we strongly recommend you never ever ask. This may be a difficult one to resist. But we exhort you: Please don’t do it....

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($) Updating the adcom on a job change

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If you switch jobs in the midst of your process of applying to business school, do you need to tell the admissions office about it? We started this topic about updating the adcom about changes to your profile and status and this case is an important one to discuss more in-depth. If you change jobs,...

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($) International MBA candidate going to interview?

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If you’re applying to the U.S. schools as an Indian or other international candidate, then there’s some things you should keep in mind as you get ready for your all-important MBA interview. Hopefully you’ve already picked up our MBA Interviewing Guide which explains what you should expect with interview policies at the different schools and...

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