国际顶尖MBA申请交流平台--TOPWAY MBA

1，我十一月中去校園interview了，申請R1, 十月底收到面試通知的，與其他商學院比較，感覺耶魯的整體教室及設備很老舊，同學幾乎擠在走廊上的沙發聚會，不像其他學校有好多好高級的專屬小會議室全天候開放使用，是有點小失望。但遇到的學生都很友善，而商學院離其他校園的地方，像書店、星巴克感覺都好遠阿!!! 好像商學院是躲在校園的角落裏，不過還是名校吧。Interview很直接從resume上問問題而已，所以沒啥太過份的問題。跟大家分享~

07年Yale 面经， in SH tomorrow Plaza@3/3
面试感觉相当一般，发挥的那个烂啊......感觉Shelley很logical，笑容也professional的可以.......anyway,不废话了，第一时间发面经：
问题：
1. High school exprience, 居然问道这个问题......
2. University achievement，有啥说啥，反正我gpa不高，就吹别的
3. Why company, 到现在自己都没想明白
4. Working experience, 这个忽悠的还行吧
5. Why MBA
6. Why Yale, 这个回答的失败啊......本来要走感情路线，忽悠了半天，说了点啥mission啊，yale people之类的，发现对方
的眼神挺不屑的。于是立马说let's talk about rational reason，然后就blabla了半天课程设置之类的，才发现对方觉得这
比较靠谱，不过说的也挺差劲的。唉，方向走错，是最郁闷的事情
7. 然后就是问我有什么问题
8. 最后写个作文：
a．Ｍａｓｔｅｒ　兴趣，我不是，就没写
b. Opition essay
c. Your favorite teacher in childhood,貌似不同人碰到的不同
出来后被一美女告知Shelley的背景，学Law的之类的.....景仰一下能这么详细准备的人,hehe
所以可以理解为啥Shelley对我的忽悠很不屑了，anyway,我自己觉得应该走一个更加理性的说法回答Why Yale......
写的很乱，希望能给大家帮助，呵呵!

Yale面经
Yale on-campus interview with second year students
I am a mainland Chinese applicant. After I got the invitation on Dec 17th, I decided to fly to Yale specially for the interview. I think it is a right decision, although it took a great effort. I scheduled my interview on Jan 7th. My interviewer was a charming second year students. She was very nice and the overall interview was like a chat between friends. Typical questions like:
- Why undergraduate school and major?
- Why first company? (I had an architectual engineering background but worked for an automotive company after graduation, so she asked several why questions on that)
- Achievement, leadership, extracurricular stories
- Why MBA, why Yale (This is where I put my career goals in)
- Questions
At the end of the interview, she asked that if I were the general manager of GM, what suggestion I would give to the CEO. She said she was just out of curiosity, while I think it was a good question. Fortunately, I prepared a very good answer and she smiled.
I felt relax all along the interview. I think Yale is a very people-oriented school. The adcom were very nice at reception and my interviewer kept smiling all the way through the talk, which helped me to release anxiety a lot.
I was so lucky to have iammad support. Before I went to New Haven, he called me for almost one hour for mock interview. When we met, he showed me around Yale and shared with me lots of insight that I could also utilize in the interview. What's more, he invited me for a supper dinner at his favorite Thai restaurant! Thank you very much!
A few suggestions to other applicants:
- Show your strong interest about the school. Talk as much as possible to alumni, current students and adcom. The more you know about the school, the more you can show your passion via the interview.
- If time and money allow, visit the campus. That's help so much to get a feeling of the program and the people. Anyway, you gonna spend a big investment and two years of your life there, so I think it worth.
- You should be able to explain every transitions of your life and your choice. Ask yourself WHY, on all academic, professional and personal issues.
- Be yourself and keep smiling.
Luckily, I got admission 10 days after my interview

Yale:
Submitted 10.24, invited for interview 10/30, interviewed 11.8 (campus adcom). The interviewer is an Asian lady. The questions she asked : 1. why undergradute school 2. why MBA 3. Why Yale 4. Why now 5. Career goal 6. entrepreneurship experience 7. Leadership experience and how to handle difficult situation 8. Personal interests and hobby 8. questions. We had a relaxed conversation and went over our time limits by almost 10 minutes.
After the interview I attended the CDO class by Prof. Fabbozi (I work in structured finance sector. This class is too good to miss). Personally I perfer case study and the lecture style is a bit boring to me though. Yale campus is very big and beautiful. It is only 1.5 hours away from New York City. Don't think it will be a problem for future job hunting.
Anyone has questions regarding CBS and Yale's interviews or applications, feel free to email me. Finger crossed for my application for Wharton, Stanford and HBS. All best wishes for us!!

Yale R2 Interview @ Feb 10th
I just finished my Yale R2 on-campus interview. It was a great experience. Special thanks for Iammad, TN, and other SOM students who provided great helps. The questions I got this morning were quite standard:

1. Please walk me through your resume
2. Based on your consulting experience, what's your take on current market down-turn (I didn't prepare this one, but handled it well)
3. How long, in average, are your projects? How many industries you have worked on?
3. Then he picked couple bullets on my resume, and focused on two questions: a. with a pure engineering background, how do you work in management consulting area; b. how do you show leadership when you work with peole with a lot more exprience than you.
4. What is the impact you would like to make to the High-Tech industry (the industry I expressed interest for post-MBA career)
5. Why MBA, Why Yale, Why Now?
6. Please talk about your undergraduate experience.
7. Any questions for me (I asked about his take on market down-turn, the influence of change of leadership of SOM, and his experiences with Tony Blair's seminar)

Yale校园面经
大家好！我现在在耶鲁校园，方才上午面完on campus。
耶鲁商学院的房子很小，一条小街，右边是admission.
10点到了admission之后工作人员给了我名牌还有介绍册，等到了45分，面试官把我带到对面的一个房间。
问题还是这么几个，基本是跟着我的resume走下来，每个exp都问问到底是怎么回事，还问了why mba why now why yale 最大的挑战，最后我问了几个问题。整个过程感觉很procedure，面试官没有斯坦福的那个friendly。
结束后，她说由于我是大四学生，所以再面一轮。
于是被带到了小街的对面的房子里，这里面大概是教室和老师办公的地方。
另一个职员给我面试，老太太，比前面的面试官和蔼很多，前面先闲聊了一些，然后又大概的走了一遍resume。最后她开始介绍，有几个安排比较吸引我，一是上mba的时候可以在耶鲁选修任何课程；还有是因为我现在是大四学生，我在上了一年学后，可以出去工作一年，第三年再回来继续修课程；另外他们每次放假都组织学生出去旅游，拜访旅游目的地的商业领袖，我看了一下他们的旅游目的地，很丰富，基本全世界都有。

Yale上海面试经验
不知道我写的这些还有没有用，但愿至少明年的申请者会觉得有点帮助吧。
不知道为什么，当我呆头呆脑推门进去的时候，我主观里的印象还是认为shelley是一个又高又瘦的白种女人，于是当我发现实际情况原来完全相反的时候我傻乎乎的问了一句：Are you also a candidate? 当我反应过来原来她就是面试官时候我恨不得抽自己两个耳刮……
Shelley同学今天明显不在状态啊，问问题的时候漫不经心好像美国超市收音员一样，还是那几个问题，我装模作样的沉吟了半晌才装作磕磕巴巴的回答起来，心里极度鄙视自己的演技。以前没有出现的问题有：
If you have a chance, what would you do to make a change to your company?
我的作文题目是
1. What are the first names of your recommenders?
2. What's Yale SOM mission statement （当时一看到差点哭出来）
3. What quality of SOM attracts you most （好像是这个）
涂了改，改了涂，直到S同学喝完了她面前所有水瓶里的水，才抖抖豁豁的交给了她。Shelley瞪了我一眼，我忙解释说我习惯了打字，这里又没有backspace……
就这样灰溜溜的出来了。

Yale 面经 Mar. 5th, 12:15PM
其实也没有啥好多说的，和前人描述的基本上一致。面试的那位女士讲话速度是快得可以，吞词吞得厉害，建议去多听听黑人的Rap音乐再去面试，哈哈
1. where you grew up and what do you do fun in high school (问了那么多人也不换换，FT)
2. what surprise me the most when I entered college
3. why this college and why I chose my major
4. why my company
5. my career progression
6. Short term, Long term goal
7. five words to describe me
8. why MBA
9. why Yale
10. any clubs I plan to join at school
11. any question for her (终于轮到她讲了，她说她选bschool的原因是为了锻炼leadership和public speaking，偶看也像，整个讲话过程中都不怎么看偶，这样怎么和人家进行eye contact啊。当然也许是因为不屑看偶，这个偶就不知道了，不过感觉和她谈得也还行，不至于吧，，，，)
都是前面战友们碰到过的问题，我就不多说了。出来碰到一个北京过来的XD在外面等，聊了没几句他就被叫进去了。我的整个面试过程大概30分钟多一点（12点10分左右开始，12：45分左右结束）我进去的时候扫了一眼那张面试安排表，好像一天大概面8、9个，我正好在中间。看来这次R2 Yale在中国面试了不下30个人。。。

Yale Interview Notes
Had a pleasant conversation with Shelley this afternoon.
Q List:
1. what did you do for fun in high school
2. Why chose your university and your major
3. Why continue graduate study
4. Why Yale
5. Why now
6. The biggest accomplishment in university
7. The biggest shock when entering university
8. What would you change if you spent your campus life again
9. Five words that your boss describe you
10. Any question for me
11. Written topics: a. what you wrote in application free format essay; b. what's your Toefl score; c. what is the best piece of advice you have received from your parents
We chatted a lot on her experience in Yale b-school and I am surprised to know that both Bruce and Shelley are lawyers. Yale is amazing.
Total session lasts 40 minutes.

Yale 面经 Shanghai
第一次发面经，可惜基本没有什么可以贡献的。题目和前人给的完全一样，看来shelley准备以不变应万面了。
很早到面试地点，第一个面的MM都还没有进去。
很不容易等到我面，结果进去后连shelly说的第一句话都差点没听懂。说的果然是快啊！面得不好，期间说了两次“I beg your pardon”,看到N次shelly皱眉，一次捂耳朵（呵呵。。>_出来后下一个面的MM马上就被叫进去了，shelley没有时间休息，希望不会影响到那个MM。
一点个人感觉：那个reading comprehension好像是用来确认是否本人（完全个人猜测），因为我的问题有你在简历上列的工作数目，以及你的生日。

08第一面－Yale
Yale的面试是我今年第一面，那自是不敢大意，从着装到问题都好好考虑了一遍。
着装：西装一套。本以为会over－dress，结果到那人人都是领带，女的都是白衬衣加黑西装。还好over－dress了
行程：Yale的interview应该算是学校中安排得比较好的。没去以前就可以和student ambassadors 联系，了解一下学校。到的当天，学生答疑，老师答疑，跟学生吃饭，campus tour，和class visit。一天都安排得满满的，下午4点才结束。可惜我为了赶飞机，12点就跑了，错过了很多节目。
Interview Question：
面试的是个二年级的学生，nice，健谈，帅哥一个。临场的时候背的答案一个也没用上，完全的conversational，也过得去。只不过interview的房间小小的有点别扭。问题：
Why MBA
Why Yale
Why this undergraduate, and why this major?
Why this graduate school (I happen to have another Master degree)
short-term and long-term career goal
What's the biggest challenge and excitement in your job?
回来给他回thank－you note 的时候，发现他的thank－you email 已经抢先一步了。
回头想想，还是有很多可以improve的。不过面过了就没什么可多想的了。谋事在人，成事在天了。(still, secretly keeping my fingers crossed)

耶鲁 SH
说正题：

首先表达一下我对Yale的敬仰。我发现很多人都一样，等到准备面试（比如像我这次是面试以后），才居然发现，原来自己盲目申请的学校是比自己一直以来人为的更加的NB。哥大法律系毕业的律师姐姐亲口对我说：比起哥伦比亚，我觉得还是Yale好。我晕掉。
神阿，我快快的发面经，你也快快的给我发offer哈。
到现在还是很激动，真的，能有机会和哥大+Yale毕业的姐姐面对面嗑英语！我觉得我最大的错误就是说得太快，结果姐姐误以为我英语极好，于是和我说话也奇快无比。俄地神阿，人家是律师耶。我疯了。我得竖起耳朵才能保证自己不说excuse me。
题目：
1，High school 我失败忘了说我的高中全省排名第一。。。
2，大学经历大学成就我疯了
3，第一份工作
4，第二份工作
5，why MBA
6，why Yale
7，你要参加Yale得什么俱乐部？
我说食品和酒，然后说我自己喜爱烹调，姐姐说：恩很好，我还以为你要说你酗酒。
其实我觉得姐姐非常幽默，包括她说她不喜欢哥大和她喜欢耶鲁时候的表情，包括她觉得我英语讲得太快对我说：我给你一分钟把，你深呼吸一下。我晕阿。
一个小小的quiz:
很简单
表现一般，过分亢奋。越来越喜欢Yale。老有个性的一个学校啦。
特别希望可以去。

yale 面经有点晚，不好意思
MM说话巨快，且低头狂记，我感觉不是特别好，也不是紧张就是觉得她发连珠炮，我应接不暇
1. tell me how didyou grow up and what did you do for fun in high school?
2.why did you choose this major in college and why this college?
3. your biggest achievement in college?
4. What surprised you most after you entered college?
5. did you do any internship in college?
6. if you had a second time, what would do differently in college?
7. why you chose your second university? why particularly the program?
8. why you did you start your own biz right after graduation?
9. what did you parents say about your having your own business? did they help you?
10. why you joined your current company?
11, What would your supervisor describe you in five words?
12. why MBA?
13. Why Yale? （我不知说了什么，MM皱了一下眉头，唉。。。）
14. What clubs will you join?
15. Any questions for me?
READING COMPREHENSION
how many times did you take gmat?
what's your major area of study in college?
somthing about politics? (我看了半天，不知道怎么写，胡乱写了，感觉完了，本人对政治超不感兴趣，）
送我走的时候她说你今天请假了，还是现在回去上班，我想我这么郁闷，还是请假算了，本来打算回去上班的，但还是和她说我回去上班了。觉得准备了很多东西没说全，挺冤枉的。老天保佑我能拿到OFFER。
希望这些东西对后来人有用哦。。。

Yale Shanghai Hub Interview
面试官感觉还不错，不过听她说是才到上海，时差还没有导过来呢，看着是挺累的，我面试的时间是下午两点半，美东时间晚上一点半！

sigh，，，

同情一下我后面进来那位MM，hehe

1, What did you do for fun when you were in high school?
2, Why did you choose your college and major?
3, What surprised you most after you entered college?
4, Why did you choose your current job?
5, What would your supervisor describe you in five words?
6, Why MBA?
7, Why Yale?
8, Where do you plan to stay after MBA, US or China?
9, What is your biggest accompliment so far?

Basically, it's about questions on your resume following a chronological order. Nothing too tough.

然后完了是一个简单的回答问题的环节，不过她告诉我这一部分是Reading Comprehension，我还有点纳闷，以前大家都说的是short essay，想着应该是测试现场写作的能力，不过听她这么说，就只能理解成能不能看懂题的意思吧！

1, what is your TOEFL score？
2, what are the given names of your recommenders?
3, Do you think the current US economic crisis will affect the development of BRIC?

For the last question, I think they want to test whether you know about subprime crisis and the term BRIC. But Damn, I forgot to mention about the other three countries!
更新：看到Sonia的问题里面提到关于Club的问题，想起来面试官也问过我知不知道Yale的什么club，我诚实地回答不知道，现在想想这可能是他们衡量Loyalty的一个重要参考吧！希望后面面试的朋友注意下这点。

Yale R2 Interview @ 台北
I had an alumni interview with an alumna in Taipei 101 this morning,
The interview went very smoothly, it took 1.5 hours.
It just like a chat between two close friends. I really had a great time talking with her
The questions are very typical:
1. please walk me through your resume.
2. Why MBA? Why now? Why Yale? ( we spent pretty much time on this section)
3. Shor term/ Long term career goal ( discuss in detail)
3. Have you ever initiated something? Tell me about your experience.( activity/group/program)
4. Contribution to Yale community?
5. Strengths/Weaknesses
6. Community service experience.
7. Greatest achievement
As a Yale alumna, she also gave me her experience when she went abroad and faced culture shock,
After the interview, we chatted about her jobs after Yale SOM,
her club experience, and the efforts she made to get a job after graduation,
I enjoy talking with her., such a sweet and nice girl
Good luck to everyone and to myself !!!!

A few thoughts on Yale Interview
Flew to New Haven for interview last week.

Campus visit: Extremely well-organised. Tour guides were really nice and helpful. Attended two classes as well (on social venture and operations). Great lively atmosphere in class.

Interview: w/ 2nd yr student. Standard questions re: resume (a few "why" questions which naturally came out of the details of the resume), why mba and why yale. No curve balls at all. Interviewer super nice - talked at length about his exciting moments of yale. 30 minutes passed quickly...

In general - I really feel that yale is a people-oriented place. Very Friendly - I am probably the nth person saying it here. Campus visit is esp. recommended if time permits. It would give u more feel about the school...

Special thanks goes to iammad! He gave me so much help throughout