可能有点晚了，刚刚拿到offer,把面试的经验拿出来跟大家分享一下。

Interviewer是 Alan Morrison，照片上看是个很smart的人，结果没想到面试时穿着很随便的毛衣，头发乱乱的，看起来刚睡醒的样子，不过人很好，不会给你压迫感。

我是早上9点半的面试，大概15分钟就结束了，那天面试的人大多都是10-20分钟。

几乎没有general questions。

1. Q: What modules have you taken in your third year?
   A:  Econometrics, financial economics, Research in Applied economics......
   
2. Q: What have you learned from Financial Economics?
   A:  corporate finance，capital structure.....(其实我这门课没去听过，因为和另外的课时冲撞了，所以都是用第二年学的finance蒙过去的）
   
3. Q: What do you think is the most important development in capital structure over the past 50 years?
   M&M theory, 然后具体说了一遍MM(1958) and MM(1960) ，不过忘了personal taxation的部分了。然后他就一直问personal taxation对investment choice的影响,直到我终于想起来才放过我
   
4. Debt to Equity Swap（具体忘了是什么了，只记得没学过不会回答，然后他一直在引导，直到我答对了）
   
5. Q: What are your future career planning after you return to China? (问这题的原因是我personal statement里有提到要回国）
   A:  probably central banks(突然想不到临时编的）
   
6. Q: Why do you want to go to central banks?
   A:  Because financial industry is fast developing and as the Chinese financial industry still have some problems, it is a great opportunity for me to contribute and succeed.
   
7. Q: What problems does the financial industry face?
   A:  poor governance of banks. Large scale of Non-performing debt due to the support to state owned enterprises.
   
8. Q: What strategies could the banks take to solve this problem?
   A:  Debt to Equity swap (从报纸上看来的，所以我很明确的告诉他我也不清楚具体是怎么回事，怕他再往下问）
   
9. Q: Why do state owned enterprises perform badly?
   A:  Lack of incentive to increase productivity as government
   
10. Q: Do you think privatisation is a good idea and do you think investors welcome privatisation and invest in these companies?
    A: Yes. Although the state owned companies are making losses, they have factories and equipments which could make profit is well managed.
    
11. Q: What do you think is the most challenging part of this course?

后来我出来又问了一下别人，打算读PhD的都会问到研究方向。还有一个问题我觉得比较难回答的是‘Why does financial market exist?' 当时那个人没答上来，Alan就问了些别的问题，大概过了5分钟又绕回来问，所以回答的时候一定要尽量想可能的答案然后说出来，错了的话他会纠正你，并且把你引导会正确的方向。

我记得的大概就这么多，还有一些细节上的专业问题有点忘了，希望对大家有帮助

Congradu!

Hi, I wonder whether you attend the activity on March 14?

I attended.

呵呵，谢谢。

我是在英国读的本科经济，可能相对比较好申请吧。

GPA听说英国的first class可以算是3.7-4.0

GRE真的很丢中国人的脸,quantitative才760,verbal670。所以GRE考得不好没关系，平时成绩补上就行了

admissioner说median 是800，不过GRE的weight没有很大，还说对他们来说GMAT更能区分人的能力

还有就是你在不管你在哪个阶段申请机会都是差不多的，他们expect今年能收到650份申请，然后Interview 300个人，最后录取75个

根据今年在读的数据看有14个中国学生，其中12个是从国内直接过来的。

ding !@111