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Yale面试准备

据悉，下周Yale会在北京和上海做hub interview。以前陆续谈过Yale面试问题，现在在强调一下，仅供参考。我第一轮是adcom的人在上海做的interview，问了如下问题：
1）Go through your past experience, including your choice of your undergraduate college;

2)why business education?

3) why Yale?

4) how to add to Yale's diversity?

5) internship plan;

6)你有什么需要问她的问题。

我提醒大家两个注意点：

1）别忽视了如何选择你的本科院校这个问题。这是个很有意思的问题。你必须回答的有逻辑。

2）绝对注意why yale。不要去一味鼓吹yale的non profit排名如何高，而一定要把why yale和你的career goal结合起来讲，这样比较有说服力。

另外，谈谈yale大学的一些东西，毕竟yale是世界名校。在谈到yale MBA的时候，千万别忘了05年7月新的dean上任后学校的一系列变化，尤其是accountability这个核心内容，这可是yale MBA以后的的主打方向，是它的核心理念。你一定要显示出你对耶鲁大学、耶鲁MBA非常详尽的了解，以及对这个学校的热情，虽说yale的MBA排名不如传统MBA牛校，但它毕竟是耶鲁，绝对不会迁就录取一个对耶鲁不感兴趣的人的。

当然，第二轮interview有可能问的问题会与我第一轮遇到的略有不同，大家好好准备吧。

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Yale interview and the interviewer sucks

Did the Yale on campus interview in January. Not a favorable experience. Had been debating whether it is good to share. The other day I saw Coffeemug asked me for my Yale interview. Write it down anyway.

This is the interview that I mentioned in an interview summary post. I learned from this Yale on campus interview that even you do an on campus interview still the interviewer may bring in negative facter.

It was a second year student. Asian lady.
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Q: What is your strength that you may bring into Yale?

A: ..Blah blah.

Q: I see. What is your weakness in teamwork?

A: I fit well into teamwork. I work well as a team leader and good team player. I feel comfortable in team environment.

Q: Do you mean you do not have a weakness?

A: Well I do not mean I do not have a weakness. But I think I fit in the teamwork.

Q: Anyone has a weakness. So you do not have one?

A:...

Q: It is Ok. Do not feel be pushed. If you think you do not have weakness I can just write that down.

A: Well, I really got a little bit confused. Could you please clarify a little bit?

Q: I asked you what strength you may bring into Yale. Now in the same token I am asking you what your weakness is?

A: But you mentioned the weakness in teamwork. Could you please give me a scenario so that I may put myself in?

Q: Say you are in a group. You have a paper due next Monday. This is a team work. Is there any weakness for you in such environment?

A: OK. I got the point. I think XXX may be a concern.

Q: OK. I do the same thing some times.

Q: I was supposed to give you time for asking questions. But it is now 30 minutes. We should cut off.

Q: If you have any question please send me email.

A: I will. Thank you.

I drove back to the hotel. Felt frustrated.

Anyway I understood that I needed to send a thank you note. I opened my web mail. There was an email from the interviewer waiting for me.

She thanked me for coming for interview. She said that she assumed that she answered all my concerns but if I have further questions I may send her an email.
While I was waiting in the ADCOM office I noticed that other applicants got 35 to 45 minutes. (each has different interviewer).

I do not think I bear chance for Yale anymore after the interview. You may always comment that I performed bad in the interview. But I believe that the interviewer directed the interview into wrong direction.

I understood that I post this one will not bring me anything good. (I kind of do not like the interviewer. But I do not think it will hurt the interviewer in any negative way either).

I just hope that this may help those who are preparing for their upcoming interview. Just be prepared anything could happen. And try to be prepared and be cool. We volunteered to get into this game. Whatever we need to face it.

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Yale on-campus interview experiences

Interview is blind. In MBA Tour last year, YALE admission officer there also said that the interview questions would be very straight forward.

Thank testtech, cheeyong, yangrongxos, and everyone else for providing help.

Questions I was asked:

1.Go through your resume, about your work, why you go to xxx school, why you study xxxx....

2.Why you come to business school? Career goal? (not exactly the same words)

3.Why now?

4.Why yale?

5.What are the challenges in your job?

6.What would you boss describe you?

7.Tell me about your interests (I listed several of my interests on my resume)

8.What did you do during xxx, did you do anything interesting (There is a half year gap on my resume, that is why he asked)?

These are all I can remember. Hope it helps.

For those who travel to New Haven to conduct the interview or to visit campus without a rental car, I recommend Marriot Courtyard hotel. I payed ~$85 after tax for staying overa nite. Very nice room, right next to campus, about 10 minutes walking distance to SOM. You can find its phone number on SOM web site, check the rate and make a reservation. Do not forget to mention YALE SOM discount. This is the cheapest I can find among all other hotels on SOM list. Certainly if you have a rent car and plan to park on campus during the visit, you will have more options to live in a more economical hotel in town within a reasonable distance.

For those who plan to fly to New Haven direct, leave plenty of room for flight schedule changes. There are only US Airway jets commute to New Haven, and I can not say any good words about their services.

About half an hour. Within this half hour, he/she will leave ~5 minutes to let you ask questions.

The interviewer was a 2nd-year student, very nice. A little tense at the begining though, but we both relaxed a little bit as the conversation went.

I went to the visit center almost an hour early. While I was waiting in the office, I saw he already interviewed at least two other applicants. One 2-year stduent interviewer was late for some reasons, and then the admission director interviewed the applicant. I think majority of the applicants wwill be interviewed by 2nd year students.

whiteeagle

many thanks!

it's not easy to collect so many interview experience since not many people can receive yale interview invitation.

maydaythekid

many  thanks !@!!!

shiningpenny

thanks @!!!!!!

billchen_hikaru

谢谢分享！！

3gh4rd

非常不错，很又参考价值

shufromchina

many thanks !!!!!!!!!!

linlin3151

many  thanks !!!!!!!!!!!!!!