[面试经验] Yale interview 經驗分享 (Feb 2007)

Had an interview with Yale admission officier in HK yesterday, and would like to share my experience here.

It's the first time the officier has been to Asia, so it's not a bad idea to start a conversation with her about the city and weather (CT was really cold right now). She is quite nice, asking me questions on my CV basically line by line, but nothing on my application essays at all. Here are some questions she asked.

1. why did you choose this university and major?
2. why do you work in this firm? reason for the resignation? ( I have worked for 3 companies since I graduated)
3. what did you do in each company? (and some follow-up questions)
4. career vision - long term and short term
5. what will you do after graduation?

This session is about 20 mins followed by a 5 min writing test. The topic of the writing test is "what's your favorite teacher / professor?" and then it comes to the Q&A. I asked 5 questions. The whole process is about 40mins.

Interviewees came for the meeting quite early!! just after I finished my writing test, I saw another candidate arrived already!

Good luck folks. It's not a difficult interview. I am sure you can get the job done!

Why need a writing test????

Only 5 minutes? How many words requried?

Writing test, Wow! unique

any professor / teacher that you come across. You don't have any word limit. Mine is only a short essay with ~100 words.

My background is pretty normal. born in China, graduated from a uni in HK and working with a bank. 3 year working experience. GMAT > 700. didn't take TOFEL.