国际顶尖MBA申请交流平台--TOPWAY MBA

Ross的面试上周末在北京上地那个Interviewer的公司面的，人大概有50多岁。他公司实在太难找，我迟到了15分钟：（还好，貌似他也迟到了。在网上Search了一把，貌似90年的时候就去美国了。从scientist转到做自己的公司的。他问的问题就天马行空了，还好我没准备，hoho。没问什么常规的问题，问了：你在美国工作的时候，对美国文化的看法；你怎么说服你的领导做了××事情；你在国外呆的2年，如果在中国的话，是不是更好；是否satisfy那个生活；万一你去读书，你回来的时候你的同学已经是manager，你会不会觉得自己不比他幸福。。。（这个问题太扯了，我直接说：幸福不是这么比的啊。。。）

我其实很感兴趣他的个人经历，因为他阅历丰富，看起来很干练，睿智。他说他读MBA的最大的好处就是融资的时候，可以和别人说same language了，别人不challenge他的背景了。

我尽量想给大家些别的面经里没有的信息，希望能达到这个目的。Good Luck！在申请准备的过程中，慢慢的了解MBA的过程中，少少有点失望：P

Michigan Ross MBA 第二轮面试面经 by Hefei

第二轮的，上个礼拜四学校发的interview invitation，然后选了上海校友面试。
礼拜一让我联系Hefei，然后礼拜二Hefei回信说今天面（赞一把Hefei的Swift reply)

具体的就是说了以下问题：

现在的工作，简单的介绍了一下
Why MBA
Career goal，这里我的Career goal被challenge了一把。
Why ross.
最后就是Q&A
Hefei还是很nice的，不过今天正好赶上他休假前最后一天，面得很赶，准备的例子都没有用上。。。
最后他说good luck,是不是意味着他不会推荐我。。。5555

本来都不太想去Ross的面试了，因为已经有了UCLA的offer，本来就有点纠结。结果这次去了以后更加纠结了！情况大致如下：

校友很友善，我提前到了面试的地点，校友比我到的还早。上来简单的说了几句话，相互问候了一下。校友主动和我做了自我介绍，我觉得这很好，起码在开始前我就对这个要面试我的人有个简单的了解。然后，我们就开始英文的面试。问题都是比较常规的:

1. walk through your resume and self introduction

2. why Ross and why MBA at this point in career

其他的问题都是围绕着我的经历展开的，聊天似地对话，所以对问题印象不深。后来，我问了校友几个问题，我们就围绕着选择学校，职业发展（尤其是我创业的职业发展）等话题进行了讨论，最后差不多40分钟后面试结束。这个过程校友很长友善，成熟和对职业发展等相关话题都有不错的见解。这次面试让我对Ross留下了非常好的印象。虽然不知道能不能拿到offer，但是现在的确比以前更加纠结了，UCLA和Ross真的是不知道怎么选择了。

Michigan Ross MBA面经

Ross MBA面经

Go through the resume
Why you started your own company? How was it doing?
Four months with nil reply for customer pitch, how did you feel? (Panic)
How about your teammates? How did you motivate them?
You wrote a column? Since...? What's the publication?
Career goal; How an MBA will help
Why Ross
Contribution to Ross
Which schools did you apply (Honestly told my application status and result

In the following - sharing his own career trek, reason for coming back to China, and impression for US.etc. An alumunus graduated in 2001... Really matured, logical, sophisticated, !!!PLUS!!!AMAZINGLY accessible.

(Ross)Tauber Institute 面经 (Round One)

Just finished the phone interview with Program Managing Director, about 20 min. Have a share

1) Why MBA?
2) Why ROss
3) Why Tauber Institute
4) My view of future career

Friday will be the decision DAY for Ross R1, God bless all R1 applicants

Michigan Ross MBA Round1 面经

几天前在校友的办公室面的，地点在NYC，整个面试感觉很实在，基本上就是：

walk through your resume

why MBA

why Ross

what can you contribute to Ross

面试官非常认真地回答了我的问题，介绍了自己在Ross的经历，并且站在我的立场替我考虑应该如何充分利用mba这一教育机会。在做过的几个面试中，这个是感觉最有收获的。

面试过程中，基本上就是be yourself，career中的亮点要提，上面说的几个经典问题要熟。

祝大家好运！

热腾腾的Michigan Ross MBA电话面经

北京时间9:45pm，拨通了Ross admissions office的电话，结果接电话的小姐让我等了将近两三分钟才把电话转进去，让面试官小等了一会。之前一直以为会是Adcom，结果是一位二年级的学生，是位女士，声音听起来挺和蔼的，是Blind interview，整个面试过程气氛还算比较轻松，问题都很标准：

1. Why MBA
2. Career goal
3. Why Ross (这里我提到了alumni, 她追问了一下, what's so special about Ross alunmi)
4. Leadship example
5. Describe a situation when one of your surbordinates didn't perform well and what you did to help him/her?
6. Describe a time when you try to implement a policy or stategy but meet an obstacle. What did you do to overcome it?

差不多就这些了。一开始她就说了：we have about half an hour，所以这一串问题下来时间已经差不多了。最后她问我有什么问题问她，我问了一下Ann Arbor的情况，她蛮认真的回答了我。整个过程下来，我觉得interaction不是很好，很多情况都是她问了一个问题，然后我独自演说3分钟，她就在一旁很安静地听我磕磕绊绊一路说下来，中间没有feedback，也没有打断我。第一个问题我回答完后，她没有反应，过了几秒才解释说：不好意思，她刚在take note。可能这就是电话面试的弊端吧。但总体来说，面试官不是很challenging，可以感觉到她很认真地对待她的工作。最后讲到她在Ann Arbor的生活时，we shared a few laughs, which were quite nice. ;) 大致情况就是这样。希望能对还没面的TX有些帮助，另外，Wish us all good luck!

Michigan Ross MBA 北美校友面经

在北美，校友面试的。一个刚毕业的MM。问题比较standard

walk through the resume

why MBA now?

short term and long term career goal after MBA，中间她插问了，why not short term goal first then MBA?

Why Ross?

What you can contribute to Ross?

some behavioral questions:

a time when somebody was under performing, how to motive people

team work experience

leadership experience, 追问了how I define leadership, how do I lead people

hobbies

questions for her

大概30分钟左右，在一个cafeteria，我自己觉得气氛还比较轻松。估计她没经验，不时看表看时间。不知道结果怎么样，thank you note 也没回。

周末还有Chicago Booth的alumni interview，加油！

Michigan Ross MBA香港面经（最后结果为录取）

今天在香港汇丰银行和一位牛牛级别的ROSS校友面试
问题如下：

1. 如何说服我去投资你们公司和购买你们公司的股票（我是合资企业的创业和环保背景）
本人没有金融背景，无奈回答只能从销售角度去忽悠，说国家政策和目前发展前景，结果被评完全没回答到点上
2.大概是问我如何掌握销售方面利润吧
我们公司目前国内垄断，价格基本定死，客户爱买不买。我大概解释了下。。。但是被评说我这样不好，价格底线都不知道什么的
3. 是否有管理经验？管理几个人？你如何MOTIVATE 他们？
4. 你在这个公司最大的挫折是什么？
5. 你毕业后想做什么？
6. 报了那几家学校？然后分别为什么？
7. ANY QUESTIONS？
8.给我做了些评价（一半正面一半负面）

哦对了，第一个问题之前，还问了我GMAT多少，然后没有问V和Q,直接问我WRITTING多少。。。。
然后短时间的沉默时我提出要不要我先介绍下自己，被否了，他说他问，我回答就好了。

除了1和2，其他回答还行吧，起码没再被训斥
面试时间大概30分钟吧
我应该没戏啦，呵呵

希望其他申请人加油咯

今天的Ross面经-北京

跟面试官约在新光天地的星巴克，没想到那里100米的有两个星巴克，面试官去了一个没找到我，又去了第二个，幸亏他知道我对这个地方不熟所以也没介意。后面的同志要是约的这个地方，一定要确认好是哪个。

面试一共进行了2个小时，先go through resume后的第一个小时，几乎没有任何typical的问题，全是针对我简历上的针对性问题，可能面试官因为是四大出身，每个方面都刨根问底地问到最细节。

1、introduce your undergrad college, and what did you get from the 4-year study. 我说我们学校是综合性大学，让个人能力有全面的提升，比如参加过debate club让我的口才变得很好。于是让我说曾经的一个辩题，我当时针对这个题目是怎么说服对方。这个完全没准备，8年前的事啊……回答的一塌糊涂；

2. tell your role in a certain project he asked. 谈到一个M&A的经历，因为我之前是做engineer出身，所以他问我怎么学的corporate finance; 我提到enterprise evaluation的时候，又让我define这个概念，并给出计算公式。谈到我做的financial model，问我什么是DCF, 怎样计算，IRR从哪里获取——我的finance知识可是半路出家，全靠上半年做项目的时候自己找了本Corporate finance的书啃完的，所以那个EV公式也记得不是特别清楚，面试官表示理解。

3. cross-cultural working experience, and a detailed example about addressing cross-cultural problem. 我举了一个跟印度同事沟通的过程，从刚开始的文化差异，到我怎么跟对方沟通消除隔阂，最终让彼此的配合更有效率。

4. How could I switch job from engineering to strategy, how to persuade the new boss, what the key knowledge to be a qualified strategist.

5. cross-functional working experience, how did I involve so many functions and members in the project I led. Why they initially oppose my idea and how did I persuade them.

然后咖啡厅里人多了起来，他就带上我去了他不远处的办公室继续面试。这次主要是typical的问题。

1. Why MBA, why Ross, why now, career goal

2. My unique contribution to Ross

3. Your questions about Ross

没有问leadership/teamwork/failure/weakness...

能记下来的就这么多吧，接下来我们又用中文聊了半个多小时，他指出了我面试中存在的问题，比如对简历的熟悉程度不够，对自己的经历准备的不足(比如大学debate club)那个，还有口语中需要提升的地方，面试中应该加入生动的故事使其更有说服力。另外给了我很多职业发展的建议，比如说如果我对Ibanking感兴趣，就要提前动手准备，无论最终决定去哪个学校，拿了offer就要开始跟校友联系，提前了解这个行业。感觉Ross校友的nice and helpful真不是吹的，这个面试官也说他当时就是考虑到Ross强大的校友网络和大家的友好互助才放弃了CBS的offer。

最后，他说希望我能加入Ross community，但adcom还会综合我的essay, rec letter等其他方面才能给最终结果。Keep my finger crossed

ROSS 面经

发个面经攒人品吧。

是一个二年级Marketing的美国学生面的，没有奇题怪题。时间30分钟，我讲25分钟，向对方提问5分钟。网上看有人被adcom staff 面的，我觉得这样更好，staff 的comments 会比较有分量？

Qs：

1. Walk through your resume

2. Why MBA, why ROSS, why now

3. Leadership example

4. Teamwork experience with challenge/How did you solve it?

5. What clubs/activities in ROSS are you interested

6. What make you unique?

7. Any question for me?

Round 2 / Off-campus / Alumnus (Published March 11th, 2010)

My interviewer was very relaxed and friendly, and had loved his Ross experience. We met at a coffee shop for just under an hour.

List of interview questions:

Tell me about yourself.
Why Ross?
Have you visited the campus and seen the new building? (I had not, but emphasized my attendance of local events)
How do you feel about moving [from NYC] to the Midwest?
Can you tell me about a time when you dealt with a struggling team member?
Asked me to elaborate on two of the bullet points on my resume on my current position.
How do you hope to become involved on campus at Ross, aside from MAP?
After the Q&A, we talked about his MAP experience and chatted about Ross in general, the admissions process, etc. He was very happy to share his insights and encouraged me to contact him with any further questions.

Decision: Admitted!

Round 2 / Phone / Adcom (Published February 26th, 2010)

I just finished my phone interview (I am living in Asia) with an admissions committee representative. I called right on time and was transferred to a very nice lady. She was conversational but the interview still felt like an interview instead of a chat. She started by saying she may not have had access to my application (is that a yes or no?) so it's ok if I repeat the examples and information that I had used in my application. Also, I was calling with an internet phone and there was lag between responses. A few times I couldn't hear her clearly and she seemed to have the same problem. So although it may be expensive, my advice is to definitely play it safe and use a landline to call. Interview questions:

Walk me through your resume.
What are your goals and how does an MBA fit in the picture?
Why Ross? I mentioned the usual action-based learning (MAP, RLI), flexibility of curriculum, various centers (William Davidson Institute, etc), largest alumni network of any business school in the world, I also mentioned the fact that all the UMich alums I've talked to, regardless of which school and how long ago they graduated from, show fierce pride in the school. She really warmed up to this comment and agreed that all students who graduate from the school are extremely loyal to it.
You mentioned one of Ross' strengths was the focus on team work, can you give me an example of when you worked in a team, what was your role and how did you contribute?
That was a very good example, I'm wondering if you can give me another example, or perhaps this happened in that first example you gave, of when you were in a team and you had a member that was not performing well? What did you do?
I forgot the exact wording for this question, but it was one of those give me an example of when you took initiative and made a difference (preferably in a team).
I understand you don't know what the other applicants are like, but how are you unique, what can you bring to the table that sets you apart from others?
What do you do during your free time?
Are there any questions that I haven't asked that you think I should? I think I really botched this one. I felt there was still so much of me that I wanted to share, but I couldn't come up with just one question that would allow me to give all these answers. So I told her "I can't think of a specific question but I can think of many answers that I wished to have given". Either she couldn't hear me well through the not-so-great connection, or she didn't like the answer, because she just laughed a bit and moved on to the next question. I felt I really lost a great opportunity to sell myself more.
Any questions for me? I asked her two questions:
The first one was whether the jobs students take upon graduation are more centered in the Midwest. Her first response was for me to check the stats on the website (oops!), but then she went on to say a lot of students find jobs all over the country and abroad, and that although Ross is located in the Midwest, that doesn't mean your career opportunities are only limited to here. She did say a lot of students in Finance find jobs in Chicago while Marketing students go to Minneapolis.

My second question was what did she think was the biggest strength and weakness of the Ross program? In terms of weakness, she say previously it was the old building because it was not an environment that helped to foster team work and interaction, but now that is taken care of with the new building. The second weakness, which they are working on now, is not enough global representation. The school currently has plans to open Ross offices in India and China in 2011, where they will be able to recruit students, form partnerships with local companies, and find more career opportunities for graduates. For strengths, she talked again about the emphasis on teamwork, and not just teamwork among students, but also among faculty and other people involved in the program. She is quite proud of this distinction and advised that I should ask other schools about their teamwork to see if other programs also go so far in terms of collaboration. She said students openly help each other find jobs, even if they are competing for the same job. She also mentioned the fact that the new building is environmentally sustainable was because some students pitched the idea to the school, originally there were no such plans.

So overall, I didn't get any curveballs, but I don't think the interview went great. I has answers ready for all the questions, however I think they were pretty standard answers, not enough to differentiate myself and make myself sound unique. The fact that the connection wasn't that great was also a big minus. I was already talking pretty fast because I was nervous, and I think I sounded like I had all my answers memorized (which isn't a good thing), my answers were pretty long too. Oh well, now I just have to wait and keep my fingers crossed, hope this information is useful to someone!

Round 2 / Off-campus / Alumni (Published February 12th, 2010)

Interview was with alum Gautam Rao in Hyderabad. He’s a nice guy. The building you meet him in is pretty ‘humble’/’down to earth’ which makes a change from the generally corporate powerhouse setting I’ve had other interviews in.

It was supposed to be 30 mins but he said he would allocate 45-60 mins. It actually ran 65 mins. Questions were:

In six mins run through your CV
Tell me about what you did at all these jobs
How was it working for this firm and getting laid off
Tell me about your travelling
Tell me about your charitable experiences
Tell me about a professional failure
More in depth about what you do at your current firm
Why Ross?
Long term Short term goals
Why MBA?
Why now?
And a few mins for me to ask him a few questions
That’s about it really. Hope this helps.

Round 2 / Off-campus / Alumni (Published February 6th, 2010)

Only a thirty minute interview! It was practically over before it began.

The alumn with whom I interviewed was very nice. He asked all the basic questions - walk me through your resume, why Ross, why now, etc. He also asked the basic leadership questions, e.g. tell me about a leadership role, etc. We talked about the MAP program a bit, but that's probably because I mentioned it as a reason to go to Ross, and then most of my current work is international so we talked about the diversity of Ross (e.g. high proportion of international students). I explored his reasons for wanting to go to Ross and his opinion of the school. We talked about the new building and Ann Arbor and then I just asked him more about how Michigan fit into his career goals.

Hope this is helpful to other people interviewing! I apologize for not remembering more of the questions I was asked (it was a few weeks ago) but I hope the general impressions/flow of conversation will be somewhat useful. Good luck with interviews!

Update from 3/9/10 - I was just admitted to Ross. So excited - yay!

Round 2 / On-campus / Second year student (Published February 1st, 2010)

what should I know about you? (threw me a but off; took it as "walk me through your resume"
why an mba
what if you don't get in? (back up plan/try again/figure it out thru experience)
why ross
tell me a time that you failed
tell me about a time you were in a team that dealt with a lot of obstacles (be sure to include what you learned for next time!)
tell me about a time you showed initiative
how would you be involved outside of class?
there might have been others, but she said my initial review covered a lot of what she needed (had a checklist/form she was trying to make sure she had info for) 30 min total, 5 min for questions she said i did much more research on ross than she had! (maybe that's a good thing?) the admissions desk by phone had told me the person would have seen my app; but this felt like a pretty blind interview!

Other notes:

Stayed the night in Lamp Post Inn. On the older/simpler side, but cheapest best option. And find if you get in late and leave early! Free breakfast - basic bagels, coffee, jams/butter/cream cheese, quaker oat packets to make, break, english muffins, juice (starts at 6am)...owner is nice, retired, graduated from ross in '60's..... 5 min/ 9 buck (w/ tip) taxi from campus. Call blue cab or yellow cab the day before for a pick up.
was told by tour guide that tho they say it doesn't matter about doing interviews off campus, they really like it if you come to campus. they want to see you excited about the school
if you haven't been before, highly recommend "VIP" with q&a, tour, class & lunch (all with ambassadors) 8:30-1...My interview was at 2pm and that was fine; got me energized!
if you have luggage you can leave it in the office closet, and they're very casual; I wore jeans and boots and changed into suit before interview

Round 1 / Off-campus / Alumna (Published January 21st, 2010)

My interview was with an alum who is actually working in the field I'd like to be in after graduation (automotive marketing). I expected it to be pretty informal (she pretty much told me to dress casually – not business-casual, just…casual, so I showed up wearing nice jeans and a sweatshirt), but it seemed like she's had quite a bit of experience with these and had a list of prepared questions (and a manila envelope with them) which were mostly HR-type stuff: resume walk-through, strengths, weaknesses, tough situations at work, leadership experience, extracurricular activities, why Ross, why marketing. She threw me for a loop when she asked me if I had considered any other program at Ross other than the Full-time and why not. The strength question was in a form of "if you had to describe yourself to your future classmates, what three words would you use?" We talked for about half an hour, after which she said that the official part was concluded and opened it up for a Q&A. She told me quite a bit about the school and even though the "on the record" part was done, I didn't really let my guard down and exhibited a pretty decent knowledge of the school even when asking questions.

All in all, it was pretty dry, but certainly friendly and she warmed up after we discovered a common ground. I thought it went pretty well considering my more than mild distaste for HR-type interviews.

Result – denied. Not even waitlisted. Considering the fact that my stats were very decent (720 GMAT/3.4 GPA/5+ years work experience, etc), I was quite upset. My thought process now is that the interview probably did me no favors.

Round 1 / Phone interview / Second year student (Published January 21st, 2010)

Phone Interview, however have visited before for a recruitment weekend; Beautiful, new building and they really do a great job of selling the school to prospectives.

Tell me about yourself.
Tell me about your role on a team.
Tell me about a time when you had a professional failure and what did you learn from it.
Tell me about a time when you received negative feedback from a supervisor and how did you respond.
Tell me how you dealt with a team member who was under-performing.
What 3 adjectives would your friends use to describe you and why.
The interview seemed pretty straight forward. There were no tricks although it wasn't articulated to me how long the interview was so I only had the chance to ask 1 or 2 questions before being cut off at the end. Must have been an OK interview because I did get admitted last week. Prepare before hand and have really good reasons why you want to go to Ross.

Round 1 / Off-campus / Alumnus (Published November 19th, 2009 courtesy of Indian86)

I had an [blind] alum interview for Ross in India this November'09. He was very cool person, and he told how the interview would proceed. About 50 minutes for the interview, and 10 minutes for me to ask him questions

List of interview questions

Walk me through your resume in about 6 minutes? (Had some cross questions such as why I left company X, why I joined Y. Why left X only in 1 year)
International exposure - working with counterparts in country X? What did I learn from them? Their charachterstics, etc
Other cross questions from resume such as how I reached this 20% productivity in my org, how I quantified it? How I measured this figure?
Some hypothetical questions about my interest in a sport - such as Even with 1 billion people, why India is lagging in this sport? What would I do if I become sports secretary for this sport so as to make sure India triumps in this sport?
Questions on long term goal, short term goal, why ross, why mba?
Which clubs I will join?
What I have done to connect with Ross?
What does Leadership means to me?
Failure at Work?
Challenging time in Life?
The interview was much interactive, with time given to think for response, cross-questions, probing, etc. I was surprised by hypothetical questions, and too much probing. Overall it was a nice Experience. Alum was very friendly, and he treated me well.

Round 2 / On-campus / Second-year Student (Published February 26th, 2009)

I interviewed on campus with a current student. The interview lasted 30 minutes. It was very conversational and the following topics were covered:

Tell me about yourself.
How did you choose your current employer?
Tell me about a leadership experience.
What about Ross made you apply?
Why do you want to get an MBA? What are your goals?
What do you hope to get out of an MBA?
Have you heard about the Wolverine Fund (this was in response to a discussion about venture capital).
What is your dream job coming out of school? In 10 years?
What do you do outside of work?
From there we had a conversation about college football, Ann Arbor, and his opinion of my recent admits. Like I said, it was very conversational and quite enjoyable.

我分享一下我的Ross Alumni Interview

Conversational interview 30mins

walk thru my resume

Discuss myself

why MBA

short & long term goal

why Ross

what else B-schools I applied

challenge during the work

Q&A 15mins

Summer Intern

MBA Life

Why she chose Ross

Michigan State University (MSU) Broad 面经

分享一下MSU过程，希望对后面的申请人有帮助：

我准时打过去介绍自己，接着就被转到招生部的Paul North。这个人恰巧是我以前一直联系的，感觉就熟悉起来了。一上来他就介绍他今天有两个方面要和我谈。除了常规面试还要讨论下我的学历。

第一部分：面试用了20mins，7个常规问题：

1. Why MBA, Why MSU (整个过程就是why school最后一点差点忘了，小紧张了几秒）
2. Introduce yourself (说了international, self-driven, passionate)
3. Accomplishment ( Take initiative doing sourcing )
4. Teamwork ( motivate engineer at BOM project)
5. Personal international experience (我现编了一个做房产的时候的故事）
6. Take Initiative (临时编了一个自己在做房地产的时候take initiative to help expats, learning就是在主动帮助expat解决问题的同时提升了自己解决问题的能力。）
7. 完了QnA。我问他international招生策略。他说了一堆，听到最有用的就是他们今年国际学生比例下降到20－25％，因为国际学生不好在美国找到工作。

第二部分：学历的问题，他们还有点不太清楚。因为我的认证结果说等同美国4年学习，而别人的一般会写等同学士学位。我问他4年不就是undergraduate吗？他似乎接收了。但是这个是研究生院决定，不是MBA招生办。完了我跟他解释了高考失败后面通过努力拿到专科和本科毕业，以及过专八。他说very helpful。希望学历他们不再有问题了。。。

最后，问了有没有申其他学校。我明确告诉他，就他们和BYU两所以及选每一个的原因。但是他们是我最好的选择，因为符合我的职业规划。对职业发展帮助最大。BYU就是那边的同事愿帮忙。但是他们事教会学校，我不是他们教徒，我不确定他们会不会接收我。

再就面完几个小时后，follow up了一封感谢信。

攒RP，MSU Broad MBA面谈后的一点儿总结

我是 on-campus interview，提前一天到EAST LANSING. 正赶上寒流，鹅毛大雪。

第二天面了将近2个小时。就问了我：
1. why mba
2. why broad
3. leadership experience

然后就开始天南海北的聊。面试官很友好，也很健谈。后来又找来CAREER CENTER 的一个DIRECTOR，大家一起聊。话题五花八门，2个小时谈下来，真挺累的。

我的感觉：
PROS:
1.教学质量还是不错的，marketing, human resource，supply chain 方面的教学还是有独到之处。
2.对中国学生比较友好
3.校园学术气氛浓厚，不向大城市的学校那样没有学校气氛。

CONS:
1.冬天那是真冷啊
2.现在的就业形势非常不好，国际学生尤其难找工作。原来特牛的那个CAREER 主管跳槽了，现在感觉CAREER CENTER不像以前那么强了。
3.地理位置比较偏，PROGRAM 的规模较小，所以ON CAMPUS RECRUITING 的公司数量有限，而且大多数不招国际学生。

在学校就呆了一天，就是如上感受。祝大家申请顺利。

发个MSU Broad MBA面经

11/25，12:00-1:00电话面试，我打过去的。

面试者：Joe Garcia，Director of Career center，正好问问他找工作的事情。

1. Why MBA, Why Now
2. Something Unique
3. Most significant accomplishment
4. Teamwork experience
5. Something you initiated
6. Have you worked with North America people?
7. Where do you see your career chance (location)?

最后一道题目呢，我又直说愿意去美国呆两年，他就直言现在美国机会对于international student比较少。还说塑造一个capable的MBA到哪里都能用才是他们的目的。我就随声附和了一下。说我明白当前的形式，know my goal，在哪里实现都是一样的。关键是要实现自我价值。不过三年以后有可能还是希望留在美国一段时间，strengthen我学到的，开拓视野，在different culture里面开开眼界等等。

不知道我这种回答有咩问题。会不会人家听到我要留在美国就直接ding呢？我想学校没这么功力吧。再说如果万一真的不能留在美国，那我不还是会回中国或其他地方的吗？总归要找到工作的呀。请高人回答。

Phone interview by MSU

分享电话面试题目吧，第一轮申请

Why broad?
How will others describe
   your leadership skills

What leadership style you
   want to improve

Is there anything you
   would like to share with the admission committee

What is the most valuable
   working experience

Pls give me an example
   when you are Influential in a team

Q&A

[分享] MSU Phone Interview Experience

30号晚上12点做的电话面试，面试官是jeff，MSU的admission director，人很nice，开始面试前重申了一下面试的rule，告诉我他手里只有我的resume，没看过我的essay，还提醒了一下说因为他面试过程中需要记录一下note，所以说得会慢一些（这点之前也有版上有xd说过，虽然他说得比较慢，但由于第一次面试心里紧张，还是pardon了几次）。

废话少说，进入正题。面试一共30分钟，其中包括我问问题的5分钟，一分不多一分不少。问题也很typical。

(1) go through resume,针对resume中的一个细节问了两问题

(2) why MBA (only need to mention one of the most important reasons)?发现说完一个原因后感觉时间有点低，又balabala提到了其他几个方面的原因。结果回答完后，jeff提醒只要说最重要那个就行了，唉～画蛇添足

(3) talk sth about yourself that others don't know much，这个感觉是MSU必问的问题，很多applicant都被问了，不知道adcom想通过这个问题了解哪方面的特征，所以也不知道怎么回答比较好，随便balabala了一通

(4) how your team member describe your leadership style? 老实跟jeff说没问过members这个问题，就把自己的理解说了说，顺便说了个leadership example

(5) which one aspect of leadership you want to improve through MBA?

回答完上面的问题，jeff说只剩5分钟了，any question about the school.我就例行公事问了两个问题（本想问三个的，感觉时间不够了）

(1) any suggestion about my preparation of the study and life in the school?

(2) how long can I get the final decision?后悔问了这个问题，本来是想看能不能获得他的一个积极回应的，期望春节能有个big surprise, 但他也例行公事般回答了the desicion date of round2 is Mar 14.

总体感觉：感觉一般，基本上就是一问一答，没能和版上大牛那样和interviewer互动起来。虽然问题事先都准备过，不过面起来还是感觉回答有点乱，看来口语是根本呀，以后还得多多加强。

The End. God bless me having a nice Chinese new year!

MSU面试经验＋口语不好的面试准备

我是2月9号凌晨的电话面试，我打过去。面完就忙着申请下一个学校，然后回家过年，过年期间收到了MSU的admission，不得不说人家效率高啊，呵呵。这么晚才把面经贴上来，希望还能对以后的xdjm有参考作用。MSU是我最后一个面试学校（一共面试了4所学校）,已经有点经验了，所以感觉比较放松。面试官叫NOEL，是目前一年级的学生。我面试前到MSU的答疑贴上去问过，据说很nice，对中国学生非常友好。面试的感觉也确实如此，声音很柔和，发音非常清晰标准，一下子就能让人放松下来。

NOEL说今天的面试只问我5个问题，然后给我时间提问，问完结束。她没有问我任何简历上的问题，

第一个问题就是 why Broad，我顺便说了why MBA，Why now;

第二个问题让我说一个自己不为人知的方面。这个问题让我狂汗，说实在这个问题我面duke的时候就被问到过，答的很烂。但因为觉得这个问题很难答，就鸵鸟了一下，以后的面试都没准备过，没想到今天又被问到…… 但当时还是强作镇静，临时编了一个，感觉面试官对我的回答没啥共鸣；

第三个问题问工作中遇到自己不会的问题怎么解决？举个例子。这个问题也是没准备过的，临时大脑狂转，勉强凑了一下例子。此时5个问题已经问了三个，但偷眼看了一下时间，只过了大概10分钟多一点，心里急啊，因为没准备过的两个问题答的太快了。

第四个问题是how to handle team conflicts? 我说了对teamwork的理解，以及举了例子；

第五个问题是Any failure in teamwork? 幸好最后两个是准备过的，我故意略微放慢语速，拖延时间。这样5个问题说完也就只过了大概15、6分钟的样子，我想这也太快了，不能等死啊。

还好我之前多准备了一些问题，于是换我提问的时候，我问了四个问题。但有两个关于找工作的问题是NOEL没有准备过的，她说不太清楚，但说会把我的问题转给career center。这样整个面试持续了不到25分钟，我当时感觉时间好短啊，可能没戏了。然后还特别懊恼没好好准备第二个问题。但没想到最后还是拿到了admission。

关于口语不好如何准备面试

我口语不好，学了这么多年英语从来没用真正用来交流过。整个MBA准备、申请过程中，最让我发愁的就是面试关。但实践证明，积极的准备还是会在短期内有很大产出的，至少让自己表现出比实际好的多的口语水平。我按照前人的办法花了2天把找到的常规问题都写成文档，然后反复读、背。其中，建议大家可以录下来自己的声音听听，可以对如何调整语速有最直观的帮助。

其次，是面试前的Mock。除了通用面试问题的准备，针对每个学校的准备，以及面试前的Mock也非常的重要。我每个面试都是找朋友陪我Mock的。后来各种常规问题实在已经烂熟了，就用英语杂七杂八的聊，为了在面试前保持英语的感觉。现在想起来这还是挺有帮助的。这些Mock让我跟不同的朋友聊，接受到不同的挑战，不是为了面试的时候能碰到Mock的题目，而是为了培养那种用英语临场反应的能力。所以在面MSU的时候，碰到没准备过的题目，我没有慌。

还想就电话面试提一句，我有三所学校都是电话面试，其中UNC是学校打给我，剩下的两所都是我打过去。开始还觉得让我付电话费有点不甘心，不过现在很庆幸是让我打过去面试。因为其实鬼子也很小气，UNC打给我的电话效果暴差，我一直：Can you repeat……所以砸了，估计用了便宜的电话卡，呵呵。所以，如何遇到让自己打过去的面试还是应该高兴的，至少不会因为节约了点儿电话费而彻底浪费了申请费。

MSU Interview Experience

some suggestions on your telephone interview:

1. Prepare good examples for your leadership and communication skills.

2. Don't be too modest

3. ask instructive questions to show that you really care about it's program.

I finished mine several weeks ago with the associte admisstion director. It was not that I am outstanding, it was the timing as the second year students were busy for finals. I was denied by MSU. It has been the only interview that I don't feel good about. The interviewer sounds impatient and unfortunately I am such a pround guy can't tolerate disrespect. So, we are all happy now. By the way, I received offers from other schools with scholarship and stipend.

I have to say that MSU is a great school with maybe the best program in the Supply Chain Management. It's finance and marketing program also help it shine among top business schools. But since Michigan state has become a wanderland to Chinese students attracting hunderds, perhaps thousands every year, and Broad has such limited positions to offer, the competation is ridiculous fierce for Chinese students. With the same background, Many Chinese applicants can have much better offer and odds in other school.

Anyway, MSU is absolutely a good school with unreasonable competation. Wish all you guys good luck.