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UC Berkeley MBA 面试汇总(2009-2010)

本帖最后由 myice 于 2010-5-28 17:15 编辑

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Class Profile
Entering Class Fall 2009  
Applications Received 4064
Enrolled Students 239
Women 28%
Minority Students* 30%
International Students 31%
Countries Represented 31
Median Age at Enrollment 28 years
Median Years of Post-University Work Experience 5 years
Average GMAT 718
Range of Middle 80% 680-760
Average Undergraduate GPA 3.59
Range of Middle 80% 3.35-3.81
   
Previous Degrees  
Bachelor's 100%
Master's 13%
Law 1%
PhD 1%
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本帖最后由 myice 于 2010-5-28 17:16 编辑

Selected Undergraduate Majors   
Engineering 27%
Business 24%
Economics 21%
Social Sciences 9%
Natural Sciences 6%
Humanities 5%
Computer Sciences
Other 3%
5%
   
  
Selected Industry Experience   
Consulting 32%
Financial Services 14%
Banking 13%
High Technology/Electronics 5%
Not-for-Profit/Government 5%
Consumer Products 4%
Healthcare/Pharma/Biotech 4%
Military  3%
Real Estate 3%
Computer-Related Services 2%
Energy 2%
Entertainment 2%
Telecommunications 2%
Transportation 2%

As of October 1, 2009
*Includes African American, Hispanic American, Native American, Asian American, and East Indian/Pakistani
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Round 1 / Student / On-campus (Published February 12th, 2010 by mbajourney2012)

I was waitlisted in R1 at Haas (UC Berkeley). All waitlisted applicants have an option to "enhance" their application, whether by seeking additional recommendation letters, re-taking the GMATs, submitting additional statements, etc. Another option is to have an interview, which is an opportunity I jumped on since I wanted to visit Haas anyway.

I scheduled an interview on campus for Monday morning. I arrived with about 45 minutes to spare, and spent the time going through my notes over a coffee in a Haas cafe, Fifo. I made my way to the admissions office ten minutes before the interview, and settled in waiting to be called.

Since the interview was scheduled on campus, I was expecting to be interviewed by an Admissions rep. I was a bit surprised when a student sitting in the chair next to me got up on the hour and headed my way to introduce herself. Lauren was really friendly, and she almost immediately mentioned that she is an alumna of my current company, so I felt at ease right away. We found a room, settled in, and began the conversation.

The questions were exactly the kind that you would expect from an MBA interview:

Why MBA?
Why Haas?
Tell me about a time you had to act on someone's feedback
What are you most proud of? (at this point, I mentioned that I moved to the States when I was 14, and I was very proud of how much I have achieved so far)
As a follow up to the story, what was it that allowed you to succeed at that?
Tell me about a time you had to deal with a difficult situation on a team
Tell me about a time you took a risk
Overall, the interview felt very conversational and not at all stressful. I am sure it did help that after my MIT Sloan interview a month earlier, I replayed the interview in my head over and over again, analyzing everything I said, so I was well prepared for the questions. And of course, having an MIT Sloan acceptance in the pocket was a huge confidence booster.

As far as advice goes, I cannot stress enough doing your research. Using specific examples (i.e., the Experimental learning project in Zambia sounds really interesting because...) will make the conversation standout, as opposed to a generic "Haas has interesting classes." And last, but not least - be yourself!
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Round 1 / Alum / Off-campus / Admitted (Published January 27th, 2010)

Haas invited me to interview off-campus in the Bay Area about three weeks before the decision deadline. While I was initially confused and concerned that my interview would be off-campus as opposed to Super Saturday, I learned from reading some online chats with Haas Admissions that Super Saturday is primarily for non-Bay Area residents and that an alumni interview was certainly no slight.

I met the alumnus at his office, and he escorted me to a conference room. The alumnus was very friendly and prepared to interview me that morning (e.g., my resume printed out with some notes on it). The interview is blind except for the resume.

The interview lasted an hour and was quite relaxed and enjoyable, albeit still professional. The main questions were:

Why MBA?
Short-term and long-term career plan (both goals and how I plan to go step-by-step toward those goals)
What specifically I hope to gain from Haas (including what classes I was interested in taking)
What specifically I can contribute to Haas
Tell me about your job and what you do at the office
Tell me about a time when you had a difficult interaction with someone at work
Tell me about a time when you made an impact at work
Questions for him
I was surprised by just how specific I was asked to be about the program, so it is essential that you have done thorough homework about Haas and know exactly how Haas fits into your career goals. That being said, the interviewer absolutely wanted me to succeed and did not try to grill or trick me. He wanted to make sure that I understood what Haas was all about and that I would be a good fit for the program.

The best way to prepare is to compile a list of all of the questions that have been listed in this wiki for Haas (and probably from other schools with alumni interviews, such as Stanford) and then go through all of the questions to compile answers or stories that you would give. Other than that know details about Haas that are compelling to you and be yourself.
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Round 1 / Alumni / Off-campus (Published January 19th, 2010)

I was invited to interview with Haas in January 2010, around 3 weeks before the R1 deadline. After being contacted by the school I chose my location (Austin, TX) and was paired with an alumni in the area.

The Haas alumni from the very beginning was very friendly and engaged (more so than other MBA interviews I have had so far) and asked me what questions I might have about the program so he could research them beforehand. He then followed up with some information about several companies started by Haas alumni that I might be interested in.

We agreed to meet at a breakfast joint in Austin. The alumni was on time and very friendly/informal. While he took notes and did ask me some structured questions, the interview was fairly relaxed and no more intense than a typical job interview. There were no 'trick' questions and I tried to incorporate most of the factors I knew he would ask me about into my review of my resume and past experience.

His direct questions included:

Why MBA/Haas?
Tell me about challenges you've faced in previous positions and how you resolved them?
When have you had to deal with a difficult inter-personal relationship at the office and how did you deal with it?
What are your goals post-MBA?
I had already visited Haas and thus could speak about the campus and class visit, which seemed beneficial. I think the interview would have been less effective if I had not demonstrated that interest.

Overall the interview lasted 45 minutes but we sat and talked for nearly 1.5 hours total. The alumni also followed up with me after, passing on some additional contacts and information.
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Round 1 / Alumni / Off-campus / First Shared by The Parisian MBA(Published April 9th, 2009)

My Haas interview took place at the end of 2008 in a hotel restaurant with a spanish Haas alumnus and lasted for 1h in english the all time.

Here is how it went:

When I received the notification I got preselected for an interview, I contacted the selected alumnus and we agreed to make the interview in a place convenient for both of us.

He offered me to do the interview in a restaurant of the Paris business district. As it was only 100m from where I worked, I obviously agreed on that.

When I arrived, my interviewer introduced himself. He was a business developer responsible for the EMEA area for a software company I did not know. He was very friendly and very open to discussion and therefore I relaxed a bit. He then asked me to introduce myself and describe my career to date.

Afterwards he asked me the traditional MBA applicants questions:

Why MBA?
Why now?
What are your goals post-MBA?
Why Haas?
He then asked me about challenges I encountered at work. He had prepared the interview well because he asked me some very specific questions.

He also asked about my latest achievement at work and to explain the way I managed people. As I explained that I wanted to focus on Entrepreneurship at Haas, he asked me why I could not start a company without a MBA. He also questionned what were my views on how to set up a business, what kind of people I would need to help me in my projects.

Then he asked about what other schools I applied to and thought it was a coherent set of applications regarding my goals.

Then he asked me whether I had any questions. Therefore I could ask a lot about Entrepreneurship at Haas, Visa issues for Internationals and life at Berkeley.

Afterwards he asked questions about one of the hobbies I mentioned in my file. It was very interesting because one of his friends was doing it professionally and we talked about the challenges we usually meet in this hobby.

The interview finally ended and we said goodbye.

I particularly liked this interview because the interviewer was very experienced and had a lot of hindsight on career and life in general. It was really a pleasure to share ideas with him and get positive feedback from him.

I guess it went well as I finally got in for September 2009!
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Round 1 / Off-campus / Alum (Published March 27th, 2009)

Probably one of my best interviews till date, and everyone I spoke to confirmed that it sounded really good. The interview questions were ones that could have thrown me off-balance, but my interviewer was awesome - Smiling all the time, so I was so relaxed I thoroughly enjoyed the experience.

I interviewed off-campus with an alum. I arrived about 1/2 hour early, and since my interviewer also walked in around the same time, we decided to start earlier. My interviewer was alum from the 2006 batch. I tried to find out some background info about him before the interview, but wasn’t able to.

So, atypically, the first question was about whether I would still go to business school if I won a lottery for a million dollars. In my opinion, its a perfect launch pad to establish why you want an MBA, and why it is more important than just to make money. The, it moved to aspects of if I actually had won that imaginary lottery, what would I choose to invest the money in. Since my focus in business school was technology (and since Haas is my fit!), I said that I would choose to invest in emerging technologies.

It moved on to - what in your opinion are 3 of the hottest emerging technologies today. I gave some smooth answers and I knew I had set a pretty good tone for the rest of my interview.

Rest of the questions included:

Could you spend 5 minutes taking me through your resume
Specific question around an emerging and innovative technology that I had worked upon
I’m from a rotational leadership program , so I was asked to describe my best and worst rotations
The one thing I missed out on during the Program
My role on my current project and organization
Why an MBA from Berkeley
If I could take a 1-month sabbatical from work, how would I choose to spend it (Choose to talk about my extracurricular here)
Which books are you reading now, and what would you recommend for me
After that, I had a chance to discuss at length, about my interviewers experience at Berkeley, specific advice for me, the best faculty, learning and innovation opportunities outside the classroom, how did he make his career choices and how did Berkeley help him in that aspect.
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Round 2 / On-campus / Second-year Student (Published March 25th, 2009)

These were my interview questions. I interviewed with a student on campus for Round2 (and waitlisted):

Walk me through your resume.
What are your career goals?
Why Haas?
Tell me about this experience [X] which you listed in your resume. What did you learn?
What do you do in your spare time?
What book are you currently reading? Why did you choose it?
What is one thing in your application that you did not mention that you would like the admissions committee to know?
What do people like about you?
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Round 1 Waitlist without Interview, Round 2 / Off-campus / Alumni (Originally Shared at RaghuForMBA. Published March 19th, 2009)

I got a waitlist-without-an-interview decision in R1 from Haas and I was asked to schedule an interview. At that time, there was no interviewer available in India. Not wanting to take a telephonic interview, I took the next possible option. I scheduled my interview in Singapore for 21st February 2009. My interviewer worked at McKinsey, Singapore and he was from Indonesia. He was Hass MBA Class of 2005 and had extensive experience working in the US and in SouthEastAsia.

I walked into the Centennial Tower in the Tamasek Avenue at 10:00 and sat in the coffee house sipping cold coffee (Singapore is sultry, just like my hometown Trivandrum), reviewed my notes and entered the McKinsey office at 10:50. My interview was scheduled at 11:00. I sat in the lobby reading the day's paper when my interviewer walked in. After exchanging pleasantries, we spoke at length about my journey to Singapore and I apologized for the confusion that had spewed on my interview schedule, flip-flopping my decision between doing it in India Vs Singapore.

Contrary to the usual, he started by telling me his experience at Haas. What he did and what he enjoyed… Then came the interview. It was really more a discussion than an interview. It lasted a bit more than an hour and was very conversational. He asked me a lot of questions including:

Walk me thru your resume
A leadership experience (I chose outside of work) - He dove in detail in this asking me about the strategies that I had adopted to deal with the problem and how I mitigated the risks associated with it.
Explain a time where you were a humble leader (An interesting question)
Why Haas?
My goals and how I thought Haas would help me get there
What do I know about Strategy Consulting?
How can I contribute to class and what I thought was unique in my candidature.
After this we had a big discussion on his days at Haas including his work with BSG (Berkeley Solutions Group). We discussed a case that he was involved with and the recommendations. Quite fun… It reaffirmed my belief of Haas as a place of “Confidence without Attitude” or as he put it, with “Humble Leaders”…
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Round 1 / On-campus / Adcom / Super Saturday (Published February 9th, 2009)

There were approximately 100 applicants at Super Saturday this year. Interviews were scheduled over four hours and the timing of interviews was random.

I interviewed with Peter Johnson, Director of MBA Admissions. Although I was a bit nervous at first, Mr. Johnson was a very approachable and amiable person and a pleasure to speak with during the interview.

The interview was much more conversational than my previous admission interviews. Throughout our conversation we touched on the following topics:

Walk me through your resume.
What are your post MBA goals?
Why an MBA, why Haas?
Tell me about a leadership experience.
Tell me about something that you wished you could do differently (short answer #1).
The interview was supposed to last 45 minutes and ended up lasting an hour.

Like I said it was very conversational with some of these responses leading to 10 and 15 minute discussions about various current events, etc. As it has been reported in the past, Haas places significant value on the applicants' personalities and how they would fit within the community.

The one piece of advice I would offer is to do your research on the program and its many opportunities. This will help you both in your interview and in your ultimate decision-making process.
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