Questions previous Dartmouth(Tuck) Applicants faced in Interviews.
- Tell me about a time when you experienced a failure. What did you learn from it?
- What do you want your legacy to be at Tuck?
- Tell me something that's not on your resume.
- give examples where your team member has gone against the team norm and how did you handle it.
- Make an elevator pitch to Dawna Clark, Director - Admissions.
- How do you think Tuck is different from other great business schools?
- Do you think you're spreading yourself too thin with all of your activities?
- Walk me through your resume.
* Why MBA? Why Tuck?
* How do you plan on contributing to our community?
* What do you do for fun when you are not working? - why MBA? and why Tuck?
- What would your teammates say about you?
- Perhaps tell me about your weakness..
- What was you most ethical challenging moment at work and how did you handle it
- One word that describes a strong sentiment you have and why?
- If I was to play devil's advocate..I see you only have three years experience. My question is: do you feel you are ready for an MBA?
- What's your strengths and weaknesses?
- Why does Tuck want you as a student?
- What would your manager say your top 3 weaknesses are?
- walk me through resume, leadership, tell me about a time you experienced an obstacle
· Walk me through your resume
· Why an MBA? Why now?
· What are your short-term and long-term goals?
· How will Tuck help you to achieve them?
· What do you do outside work? What do you do for fun?
· A couple of unusual questions were
· What will you miss the most upon moving to Hanover?
· What are you most proud of?
· What is the worst part about working in teams?
· Give me an example of a time when you set a goal and what you did to achieve it.
· How do you handle a difficult team mate?
· If you had one year completely off, what would you do?
· What was your greatest accomplishment?
· Example of a great leader, and what do you think made him great?
· After your first year how would your team mates at Tuck describe you?
· What can you contribute to Tuck?
· Have you experienced a ethical dilemma? What did you do
Questions/Scenarios previous University of Virginia (Darden) Applicants faced in Interviews.
- Question about the case method
- Question about my future goals
- "Tell me about yourself"
- "Tell me your story, what you've done, what you're going to do, and why you need an MBA from Darden."
- What are the most interesting books you've read in the past 12 months.
- "Why do you feel that now is the right time for you to pursue an MBA?"
- explain your entire story to gain insight into your life.
- just asked me to tell her about myself.
- why mba, why darden, leadership, case method, Charlottesville
- What do you envision to be the most tough situation as you start study at Darden.
- The school really wants to get a sense of how you respond to the case method environment. The goal did not seem to be to put me on the spot. Rather it was a way of hearing my goals and future MBA plans.
- say three people who you'd chose to invite to dinner with, live or dead.
- how does darden fit into your plans and you do you fit into darden to make a valuable contribution
- How did you select you undergrad school?
- How would your subordinates describe you?
- Discuss your education and your career up to this point and why you made the choices you did.
- Discuss a failure and how you learned from it.
- Tell me about your life from birth to now. Include your parents, grandparents, spouse, kids, bosses, etc. that influenced you.
- "What question did you expect me to ask which I didn't?"
- Why do you want an MBA?
- Tell me about your leadership experience during your undergrad.
- How did you first begin investigating Darden?
- Describe how you experiences will help make a contribution to the Darden community.
General MBA Interview Questions that are usually given according the MBA students and graduates.
· Discuss your career progression.
· Give examples of how you have demonstrated leadership inside and outside the work environment.
· What do you want to do (in regard to business function, industry, location)?
· Why the MBA? Why now?
· Describe an ethical dilemma faced at work?
· Describe your career aspirations?
· What would you do if not accepted?
· What are your long- and short-term goals? Why?
· Why are you applying to business school?
· Why does this school appeal to you?
· What is an activity you are involved in? Why is it important to you?
· Talk about experiences you have had at work.
· Why are you interested in a general MBA program?
· Why did you choose your undergraduate major?
· Discuss yourself.
· What contributions would you make to a group?
· Name three words or phrases to describe yourself to others.
· What is most frustrating at work?
· How would co-workers describe you?
· Describe a typical work day.
· Have you worked in a team environment? What were your contributions to the effort?
· Discuss any experience you have had abroad.
· How did you choose your job after college?
· What do you do to relieve stress?
· It's two years after graduation, what three words would your team members use to describe you?
· Describe a situation where you brought an idea forward, and it failed.
· How do you define success?
· What would you do if a team member wasn't pulling his own weight?
· Is there anything you would like to ask me/us?