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!

thanks for sharing!

how about your result?