有一些学校是申请前就有面试，如chicago等等；另外一些是你交完申请费后by invitation,窃以为这两种面试的性质是有区别的。

by invitation的是来真的，你已经过了第一关了，所以有些challenges，偶尔会把胆小的吓个半死。

申请前就面试的，有一部分推广该商学院的用意在里面，希望申请的人越多越好，所以不大可能真的challenge你太多，让你感觉非常好，飘飘然地把银子交了，再正儿八经地研究研究要不要你。

lease keep in mind that an applicant can only have one interview with a school in one application season. Therefore, don't overlook the importance of your interview with schools of interests even before you submit your applications. If you perform poorly in an interview before you send it an application, you will not be given a second chance to interview later.

Sure. Any interview is very important. There's no doubt in it.

However, the differences between pre-application and after-application interviews remind us that:

(1) pre interviews tend to be easier, while after interviews tend to be challenging;
(2) if you had good experience in pre interviews, don't take it for granted that after interviews will give you that experience, you'll probably have tougher questions
(3) if you feel wonderful when you walk out of the pre interview room, your feeling is probably only 50% correct
(4) if you feel wonderful when you walk out of the after interview room, Congratulations!!!

What do you think? My friends. There are some friends who applied last year. These guys probably would like to tell us they had some pretty good pre interviews. however, the result maybe is to receive a ding two months after they submitted applications.

So far i have never heard anyone feeling really bad for pre interviews. do you?