收到UT Austin (McCombs)拒信，报申请经验，求攒人品
受到UT的拒信。硬指标都是一样的（G740, T105；6年corporate, 3年海外，油田服务行业；国内重点大学本硕，GPATop2），软指标方面： 面试面得很好（校面试官当场反馈），但是整个application质量较粗糙，essay写的很烂，简历写得很低调（第一版，没有修改就交了，惭愧！），再加上刚到美国生活没有工作，可能都是短板。供大家参考。欢迎拍砖。
我对UT印象不错，感觉在校生，admission和校友都很nice，无缘得进，可惜了。
祝大家都拿到心仪的offer！
最后附我当时收集的面试题目，面了1.5hours，除了少数临场发挥，问题基本全中。
? Walk me through your resume and how you got where you are today?
? What is the strongest part of your application?
? What are you most passionate about?
? Tell me about a team scenario where you faced challenges from a team mate ?
? Where do you see yourself in 10 years ?
? What other schools that you have applied to ?
1. Walk me through your resume.
2. Why an MBA? Why Texas?
3. What’s the weakest part of your application?
4. What’s the strongest part of your application?
5. Describe how you deal with situations where you have a teammate who’s difficult to work with or isn’t living up to his/her part.
6. I briefly mentioned my undergrad institution, and the interviewer ended up asking if I was applying to that school for my MBA because it has a strong program. After I said no, the interviewer asked why not.
7. What’s the most difficult professional challenge you’ve had on a team?
8. In what ways will you contribute to and enhance the McCombs environment while you’re in school?
9. What were all the essay questions this year? (I think the interviewer asked this out of personal curiosity to see if they’ve changed what they’re looking for. However, the interviewer could have been trying to keep me on my toes by making sure I remembered what UT was looking for.)
10. What’s your absolute ideal job after school?
11. Why do you want to leave your current job?
12. What single accomplishment are you most proud of?
13. What do you consider to be your greatest success up to now?
14. Is there anything you’re not looking forward to about McCombs or that concerns you?
15. Whether I had any other points I’d like to mention that the interviewer might have missed or I would like to highlight during my interview.
16. Ended with me asking a couple questions on the interviewer’s experience at McCombs.
(1) Walk me through your resume. Why pursue an MBA? Why McCombs? Why now? I ended up answering all these boiler plate interview questions just through the course of our conversation; she did not point blank ask each one.
(2) When have you been in a situation outside your comfort zone and how did you handle it?
(3) How would you describe a “good leader”?
(4) What qualities do you look for in choosing a teammate?
(5) What are you most proud of, professionally and personally?
(6) Where do you see yourself in 5 years? 10?
(7) What is the strongest / weakest part of your application?
? 1. Tell me about yourself, where are you from, what did you do in college and even in high school if you can remember that far?
? 2. Why did you chose your undergrad institution?
? 3. Tell me about your internships in college?
? 4. Did you have a senior project or a senior thesis – and what was it about?
? 5. Is there anything you would do differently when you think about your college experience?
? 6. Why an MBA? (talked about goals here so that did question didn’t come up later)
? 7. Why Texas?
? 8. What sort of internship opportunity are you looking for after your first year and with whom?
? 9. Is there anything you’re not looking forward to about business school?
? 10. What keeps you busy?
? 11. Any questions for me?
? 1. Tell me a little bit about yourself.
? 2. Other schools that you have applied
? 3. What are your goals?
? 4. What is the weakest part of your application?
? 5. What is your biggest accomplishment (professional and personal)?
? 6. How do you define “great leadership”? And how did you implement it in your life?
? 7. What is your difficulties working in a team? What type of team member that usually frustated you in a team?
? 8. Do you have any questions for me?
? Walk me through your resume
? Why MBA/why McCombs/why now
? What are your goals immediately upon leaving the program and where would you like to see yourself 5-10 years after leaving
? If you could have two round trip tickets to anywhere, where would you go and who would you take with you
? What is one of the biggest misperceptions someone might have about you, based on looking at your resume
? Space for my questions about the program
? Walk me through your resume
? How did you find your current job?
? What are your responsibilities?
? What do you most / least like about your current position?
? What is the weakest part of your application?
? What are post-MBA goals?
? How will McCombs help you achieve those goals?
Questions: Pretty standard stuff but there were two that I wasn’t expecting
? Why MBA? Why now? Why McCombs?
?  ost MBA goals
? Tell me about your current role
? Tell me about a time you led a team
? Tell me about a time you overcame a challenge
? Who do you admire?
And the two I didn’t see coming:
? What three words would your teammates use to describe you?
? How would you introduce yourself at a cocktail party?
? Tell me about yourself
? Why McCombs?
? Why MBA? Why now?
? Explain an example of leading through a business challenge
? Strongest part of application?
? Weakest part of application?
? If you are choosing a team, what qualities do you look for in a team member
? What will be your biggest non-academic challenge at McCombs
? Questions for me…
? 1) Why MBA? – I gave a very brief background about myself and tied it with my short-term goal.
? 2) Why McCombs? – I described why it is a great fit for me both professionally and personality-wise. My interviewer also pitched-in by elaborating on my points based upon his experience and explaining the resources at McCombs that will be very useful in achieving
? 3) What does ‘personal success’ mean to you? – I gave an honest answer to this question.
? 4) How will you contribute to McCombs both while at school and after graduating? – I spoke about what value I could add to the school.
? 5) What aspect do you find frustrating about a team member? – We discussed this for a while.
? 6) What is your style of working? – I described my style with a few examples.
? Why an MBA?
? What do you define as successful?
? What is the one aspect of your job that you find frustrating?
? Outside of work, how do you engage yourself?
? Critical attributes of a successful study team, with respect to the highly collaborative environment at McCombs.
? What skills do you hope to develop through an MBA program?
? How will you give back to the McCombs community, both as a student, and as an alumnus?
? If a team-member is not pulling his/her weight, how would you resolve the situation? Give an Example.
? If I give you two free plane-tickets, who would you go with, and where would you go?
? Tell me about yourself (I included experience, post-mba goals, and a little of “why McCombs” here, so she didn’t ask about them later specifically)
? Difficulties working with a team
? Leadership experience
? Classes you’re interested in taking?
? Clubs you want to be involved with?
? What weaknesses are in your application? |
