[面试经验] HBS On Campus Interview

I had my HBS interview on campus yesterday. It was scarily friendly. The adcom smiled and wrote a lot on her yellow pad throughout my 35 mins interview. No cold face and hard questions, even no leadership and career goals questions. So now I am very confused. Anyway, here are the questions - very specific to my experience so I will generalize here.

- why this U.S. college?

- how did you get your internship at this bank? How did you get to Wall Street?

- She asked me to summarize my job in plain and easy-to-understand 3 sentences to someone who has no Wall St experience. A lot of follow-up questions here. I was surprised how much she wanted to know the details.

- Why transfer to your current group? What is the biggest challenge?

- What's your biggest weakness?

- How will you contribute to HBS?

- Anything else you want to cover that's not in your application? I used this opportunity to talk about a unique leadership experience.

- Anything else? (it's already over 30 mins and she wants more??) so I summarized how I have grown as a leader over the years and how I was looking to further develop my leadership qualities at HBS.

- At this point I remember I have another leadership story I haven't touched on so I asked if it's ok to tell her another one. She said  yes and I did.

That's it. I can finally get serious at work, catch up with my friends, eat hot pots and go for happy hours now! Good luck to everyone!

Congrats MM!!!! I'm sure you did an excellent job! Thanks for sharing =).

Thanks and sure. Undergrads in the US. Finance major. 3.9 GPA. 710 GMAT(shame!). Close to 3 Yr WE in a major WJ I-bank. Have experience in both Sale/Trading and IBD. Not so much EC during college. Above average EC since college - serve on a couple of boards, recently won an award in community service, and raised 6-digit USD for a Chinese charity (please let me enourage everyone here to start donoting how ever much you want to help the disadvandged children in needs in our homeland plus let's save more clean water for our plant - Thanks!!) Good luck to everyone. I hope to report good news on 3/26.

hey girl, congrats! at least it is over!! I am sure you will get the good news soon. Good luck!!

question for you: I am very curious to know what made/inspired you to actively take on so many EC roles post college. This is very interesting as you said you were not so involved in EC in college, what made you decide to get very involved post college when you have a busy banker life?? although the trading desk is shorter hours, but no less stress...Were you thinking about building your resume for HBS initially when you decided to jump into the community services?? Honestly, your EC post college is so impressive,,,

while, myself, is the opposite way around. Have quite a lot of leadership experiences in college, but post college, have no EC activities, unfortunately...And this is because I work two jobs. Outside of my trading job, used to fly cross-country every weekends

you can also private-message me if you prefer..

anyways, best of luck!!! Let me know how it goes!

now i know what kinda personal n professional standards i am gonna live up to.   j/k.. =)  very competitive profile!  btw which ibank are you working for? (pm me if you feel comfortable)  the world is small and we might turn out to be colleagues.  =)