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UCLA Anderson
UCLA

Introduction

UCLA is among my R2 choices. I received the invitation shortly after I obtain the digital ID. This time, I planned a campus visit. A bad decision was to stay near LAX, from where the traffic is bad to UCLA in the morning. I was almost late but arrived at the admissions office 5 minutes before the appointment.

A second-year male student interviewed and he has some similar but not exact background as mine.

Questions

1. Walk me through your resume.
2. Why MBA, LT/ST goals, Why Wharton, why now?
3. If you can hand-pick you team at UCLA, how will you do it?
4. What is an ideal AMR project due to your career goals?
5. A technical question.
6. What are you hobbies?

Lessons

I was better prepared this time. My answers are not very crisp, perhaps a little wordy. This makes the conversation longer. Overall, the interviewer was friendly and tried to create conversational setting for the interview, but I failed to build more connection with him. He replied to my thank you note.

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UCLA电话面试
本来是约校友当面面试的，但是好像比较背，先是联系不上指定的校友，联系上后人家要出差，12月中才回，换了个校友本以为在上海，后来发现居然不在同城。接下来就感恩节了，假期后学校说只能给你电面了，所以上周五一早接受了adcom的电面。
8点整，对方如约打来电话。先是verify一下接电话是我本人：
1. what's your date of birth?
2. what's your phone number?
3. what's your home address?
然后就正式开始（问题前后可能记得不清楚了）：
1.Please go over your resume and describe your career path
2. What's your career goal?
3. What do you want to do after getting your MBA degree?
4. Why MBA? Why Anderson?
5. I noticed you have xxx experience in your resume. I find that very interesting. Can you tell me some more? What's your role?
6. How do you work in teams?
7. Q&A
面试人是adcom的coordinator，好像很年轻，挺nice的，可惜我比较紧张，没有大聊特聊。只知道她本科是UCLA学Education的，后来MBA不在Anderson读的。她说今年financial aid比较紧张，让我自己想想办法找sponsor。。。祝大家都好运！

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Got UCLA R2 Interview
Actually I just did it this morning.
常规问题，常规到我实在没啥好说的了。
我的面试算是都做完了（还有一个学校没信儿，估计没戏了），有跟adcom面的，有跟校友面的，也有跟在校生面的。感觉虽然问题都差不多，但还是跟adcom面的比较好，对方比较有经验，问题问得很清楚，而且问之前还稍微铺垫一两句，之后也有小的comment，过程比较流畅。今天跟在校生面的，感觉他比我还紧张，问题都特短，没任何铺垫，冷不丁就来一个，虽然我都准备国了还是有点不知从何说起。而且，他一个问题没说清楚，我让他重复一边，他一紧张就重复了好几分钟。总之真正面试的时间觉得有些磕绊。不过好处在于，我没那么紧张，一开始前十分种聊得开心地不行。
总结说来，大家尽量找adcom来面吧。