myice

Cornell Johnson MBA电话面经

面试人，ann

问题：

why mba

why cornell

career goal（注意：转行的要准备back up）

你要转行的领域很难，裁员很厉害。你打算怎么准备进入这个领域？

最大的成就

在essay里提到上某某学校，你是怎么学习这么好的？你到学校遇到什么挑战了，你怎么克服的

leadership example

teamwork example

what club

你如何更多了解cornell的。我提到一个校友，她问校友叫啥，哪个年级的。。。结果hans的中英文名我没记准确。。。。

your questions


：（ ：（ ：（，最后问我学习英语要求高，怎么提高打算

myice

Cornell11月17日电话面经

原本陈词滥调都不想写了，受人怂恿还是写一个吧。

之前还有一个小插曲，学校说要电话面，我回信说为啥要电话面，不能校友面吗，电话面也看不见我人等等，诸如此类。结果学校又给我回封信说，你要校友面欢迎你，不过我们还是想要电话面。

这这这。。。矿当一声，翻倒在地。

算了，胳膊扭不过大腿，您想啥我就从了还不行么？

晚上开面。对方貌似还不是adcom的，不过声音带着老外特有的喜悦感倒让人轻松，一上来跟我扯了几句奥巴马访华，这对姐我来说小意思。

然后一些问题，先后顺序忘了：

Short-term and long-term goal;

Why MBA;

Why Johnson;

A difficult situation;

How to deal with conflict;

How to persuade others;

Your leadership style;

What clubs or organization you are interested in;

3 words to describle yourself;

Other schools applied;

Any question to ask.


想起来再补充。有些回答的自我感觉一般。而且电话面试看不到对方，有时候讲的口干舌燥不知道该不该停，累死。

到头来发现：姐参加的不是面试，是寂寞啊～～

祝大家好运！

myice

刚出炉的Cornell Johnson面经

校友面，非常nice的一个人，关于Cornell那个品酒课寥寥数语的描述真是太有意思了。
Walk through your resume
Why resigned from the first job, which sounds pretty elite and promising?
Why Cornell
Leadership
Teamwork
Biggest accomplishment（我就直接把essay的搬运上去了，不知道这样是不是不合适。等我balabala半天，他幽幽地问了一句，这是不是essay上的？我汗，也不知是不是不应该这样？）
Any other school applied(我只有他家一所，所以回答起来特别理直气壮)

貌似还有一些什么，不记得了，都是很常规的问题。但在walk through resume的里面陆续问过很多追问的小问题，记得回答起来特别需要打点精神。看到他在简历里做了很多的标注，应该是事先很认真准备过问题的。

bless all, including me

myice

刚面试完。基本上JOHNSON 是让你告诉他们你要如何面试。如果选择当地ALUM面试的话，他们会发一个LIST给你，你自己联系当地的ALUM和SET UP 你的INTERVIEW。当你SET UP 好了以后再回话告诉ADCOM他们会FOLLOW UP 那个INTERVIEW你的ALUM。

myice

Cornell 1y
我是在Decision release前一天收到邀请的。cornell的round 3有1100多人申请，学校估计人手不够了，拖得比较晚。。
我约了电话面试，知道面试官姓名后，到Linkedin查了一下。她是负责immersion project的，因此准备了这方面的问题问她。
1, Go through resume,
2, Why MBA, why Cornell
3, Leadership experience,
4, How to deal with conflict? Example?
5, Team work experience
6，Other school applied
7, How do your colleagues describe you?
8, what three points of you I should tell adcom office?
9, Questions for her
Cornell的面试是semi-blind，面试官手上除了resume还有个note，是读Package的人写的。因此，在看过面经后，大部分问题都可以准备到。但是有两个问题，可能是读package的人写在notes上的，就完全因人而异了，而且一定是问你package中的弱点。
我挺喜欢Cornell，1年的项目对与大龄的我也挺合适，可惜被WL.

myice

10分钟之前

1. why mba? Any catalyst for MBA decision?
2. why Cornell?
3. Other school? why?
4. contributions to class?
5. short-term goal?
6. Questions to her?

本人工作时间较长，所以重点问了 why mba, 中间有interaction.
感谢一位mm两次的mock.不知道她版上的ID. 就此谢过！！！

myice

Cornell
2月10日收到面试邀请，约在2月12日Skype面。面试官是VICTORIA Z. AVERBUKH，Cornell在Manhattan的director。其实他家发offer前并不是都要面试，一些有问题需要clarify的申请人才会被要求面试。

面试时只有我开视频，对方不开。意料之外的是interview是压力面，对方非常tough，针对了材料中的几处硬伤质询了一下，我尽力defend，但感觉很不是滋味。其中我提到对algorithmic trading感兴趣，对方问了如何处理trading中的lag time，还有对high frequency trading的了解。我答得都不太好，最后还问了一下最近一次读WSJ是什么时候，对报上什么topic感兴趣。因为自己有订阅，就提了一下了EU对Greece的纠结和自己对市场情绪的看法。结束前director给我提了一些建议，如准备intern面试尽早准备，早在开学前就要进入状态，我觉得还是非常受用的。

本来觉得被捅了一顿，应该没戏了，没想到3月5日直接收到录取的邮包，之前也没有email通知，还是很高兴的。

myice

Cornell R2 面经 & telephone interview discussion (3-1)

一个小时前面完了我的dream school，表现不好，真恨自己没有抓住机会。先上面经吧。

1. professional progress at work
2. the most difficult time at work
3. team work experience
4. the most important decision of your life
5. why cornell
6. other schools applied
7. how did you do to contact Cornell alumni
8. any questions

虽然已经面试过好几所学校了，但电话面试还是头一次。感觉很不好，看不到对方，好容易紧张，还会走神。真后悔没多做做telephone interview的mock. 感觉电话面试和face-to-face，哪怕skype interview都差好多啊。交流不顺畅，好像也很难和面试官有共鸣（就连我问的问题，关于BRI的，她都不太清楚）。想想去读MBA后找工作也会有很多电话面试的，大N们讲讲经验吧？电话面试到底怎么提高？有什么技巧麽？还是因为个人英语水平的问题？

心情超级不好，都开始自我怀疑了。
先谢谢各位了！

myice

Adcom / On-campus / Round 2 / Accepted! (Published March 22nd, 2010)

Interview was fairly informal. Lasted almost exactly 30 minutes and she asked the following questions:

Walk me through your resume and experience.
Leadership examples
Asked about my career goals
Which immersion would best fit your goals?
Tell me about a time you experienced conflict and how did you resolve it?
Did you bring anything else besides your resume you would like to share?
Asked me about my passion for a particular sport since the interviewer was also passionate about it
Asked if I had re-taken my GMAT because I said I would in the optional essay of my application (which I did re-take).
Any questions for me?
When I walked away I didn't feel like I had connected with the interviewer as well as I would have liked but I got my message across about my background, goals, how Cornell fits into my plan and how I fit into Cornell. Learned of my acceptance via a phone call on February 15th, one day before the notification deadline.

myice

Round 2 / Alum / Telephonic (Published February 1st, 2010 as shared by MY MBA journey)

Brief me about your work post graduation
More follow up about the actual work
Tell me about a significant leadership experience
Tell me about a teamwork related conflict you faced
Why MBA
How did you make the choice about this career path
Have you done more research about this path?
Where else have you applied? Why?
Tell me about a time when you had to make a difficult decision
Any questions?