Interview is common for all MBA courses, it is almost compulsory before the school consider to award you an offer. And from my experience, I think the interviewers I had in this application season are like the followings:
CBS: Blind interview, very traditional questions (at least 1 ethics dilemma question so be prepared for your stories)
LBS: Non-blind Interview, since the interviewer knows everything even your recommendation, you need to prepare for stories not included in your essays / application package. You might want to focus on your international experience / vision to impress your interviewer. 1 compulsory presentation which you can be really creative and does not required any advance knowledge of the topic, just support your answer with proper logic and reasoning would be fine.
Chicago Booth: Blind interview, interested much on "why" and your timeline of growth. My interviewer is particularly impressed while I mention my leadership style growth from skill-based to more emotional-focus way saying this is actually a way showing my leadership grown more mature.
Kellogg JD-MBA: "Teamwork" and "why joint program" are the key. (My interview for this one is really short since i have a very busy interviewer, but it's short and sweet one )
My reflection:
The key to everything is "be yourself" (I know... people said this for a few thousand times already), since the interview is really a two-way process to measure your suitability and help you to make decisions on your later offers. CD has a list of common question and i'm quite sure you can find similar things on internet, prepare for your answers, develop a structure and a theme which is consistent to your application package. Trust me, sometimes the recommender is indeed recommending you but it goes suspicious while his/her comment is not consistent with what the adcom see from your package, that's an "automatic ding".
If you are not familiar with expressing yourself in english, practice your answers with your friends (foreigners preferred), and prepare a few "gags" (not cheap ones) to heat up the atmosphere. In your practice, try to strike a balance between professional discussion and friendly chats, dun be afraid to get into personal feeling about the school (but never too personal of course).
Yes, this JD meets all Bar requirement, most grad would choose either Illinois Bar / NY Bar but you can choose any state bar of your choice for admission.
Thank you for your response. Well, I select Kellogg mainly because of the program I got, which is a very rigorous combination of JD and MBA in 3 years. Kellogg is famous on the structure and quality of this program.
In my school choice, there are a few things I have been looking at. Please check out my next post.
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