面经@Columbia Business School (CBS)，Tuck, Kellogg, Berkeley Haas

kitty10

面了很多学校，希望对大家有帮助，BG和timeline写过了 http://forum.chasedream.com/thread-798561-1-1.html

用英文写给一个朋友的，不翻译了大家见谅. cbs有个选interviewer的系统，建议联系了3个几天没回应就赶紧再刷一次----我面的时候正好赶上hurricane,所以alum家里停电了回应不了……我的interviewer是我刷第二次的3个人之一，但是都没回应就刷了第三次，但系统里只有最后的三个人，面试一早校友发现没法confirm……还好cbs安排interview的officer超级有效率，一早就解决了：）另外我选了最近几年才毕业的校友，觉得面年轻校友非常顺利，中间reschedule学校系统不Update各种drama，都耐心帮我解决了，有4个更experienced（毕业5年10年20年都有……）的校友跟我联系，但是他们schedule都没有这么flexible

Nov2012 in NY

[size=12.666666984558105px]It went pretty smooth， very casual. Actually I kinda feel it's too casual and I'm hoping I didn't relax too much...  I'll try to remember all the questions We met at starbucks. I dressed suit but my she dressed casual. She said she read my resume and it makes very much sense why I want to do MBA. She even checked my company's website.

[size=12.666666984558105px]1. walk through resume-- here I only talked abt my work-- a few questiosn here, back n forth

[size=12.666666984558105px]2. questions about family business, how it works

[size=12.666666984558105px]3. then jumped directly to end of resume, asked that I've traveled to 30 states, what's the weirdest state-- talked about my road trip to states in midwest, yellowstone

[size=12.666666984558105px]4. why mba, why now-- when she talked, it's more like that I have some points and she agreed, saying she had similar experience, instead of asking questions

[size=12.666666984558105px]5. backup plan. She took notes here

[size=12.666666984558105px]6. adversity-- she said I have to ask a hard questions cuz CBS asked me to. I laughed saying that I thought it's "ethical dilemma" question. She laughed too, and said she thought "ethical dilemma" is too hard n she didn't have a good story when she had her interview. So I talked about my challenge in college.

[size=12.666666984558105px]7. where do you want to live when go to school... talked about places around the campus

[size=12.666666984558105px]8. questions for me- she knows I did a lot research on [size=12.666666984558105px]Columbia[size=12.666666984558105px] so she took the conversation, clarified CBS is not a finance school, their activities with partners (I mentioned my hubby( etc., and I didn't even get a chance to ask questions.....

[size=12.666666984558105px]30-40 min. The interviewer is very very nice! She filled my feedback right after the interview even before I sent the thank you note. [size=12.666666984558105px]My interviewer didn't say anything about whether she will recommend or not... She also said it took a few weeks for her to receive admission notice after her interview-- so it might take a long time.

Tuck on campus，面完cbs当天各种倒车半夜到了Tuck, 第二天学校一天活动校友面 Early Action RD, self-initiated

[size=12.666666984558105px]Tuck's interview is even more casual. It was conducted by a 2nd yr student who is really nice, and besides the standard questions, he asked very personal questions-- I talked abt my hometown in China. PS he kept writing abt many things I said, so we closed it after 40 min when he has no space to write on front or back of My resume... Overall, very nice experience in Tuck, except that it was snowing when I traveled there so it took the bus 10hr to arrive Dartmouth...

Kellogg on campus, self-initiated Nov2012 R1

这个之前竟然没有写……with admission officer, very nice and patient, tried to write down most of my answers. 因为之前都是和年轻校友/学生面的，这次面的有点小紧张，后来发现essay把网页上experiencial learning写成了experimental learning...我的interviewer还是负责这一块的……桑不起，还好kellogg木有和我计较这个：）感觉officer面和cbs校友面很类似，不是单纯问问题，而是通过问题引导你讲故事——我有好几次都觉得我其实木有在回答问题本身，而是把我的经历全讲明白了，eg cbs的alum问我去过的weirdest state，我一时也想不起来，就说最美的是yellowstone，她说她还没去过，我说那你一定要2012以前去啊：P

Haas on campus, Nov 2012 R1

[size=12.666666984558105px]After interviewing with a few schools, I feel all the interview questions they have are similar...

[size=12.666666984558105px]I was interviewed by a 2nd yr student. I heard some are interviewed by committee members as well. I don't know her background before the interview. I heard Haas used to pair ppl who have similar background for interview. But it was not in my case. There are only 2 waiting for interview that afternoon, much fewer than [size=12.666666984558105px]Kellogg[size=12.666666984558105px]/Tuck.

[size=12.666666984558105px]She has a list of questions,  and then randomly picked up a few to ask me, including walk through resume, why mba/now/Haas, leadership experience.  he only unique questions she asked is, if you can do anything, regardless of money/time etc., what will you do. I talked about my work in community cuz I didn't cover much of it in previous questions. I didn't create any unique answers for this tho. It was not a big surprise cuz I read others' interview experience online, and some were asked with similar questions.

最后，在北美的童鞋有条件的建议都on campus面，对学校decision making没影响，但是对自己选校还是很有帮助的。去了这么多学校，会另开个经验帖给国内不能on campus的童鞋：）

Nyang

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