myice

The interview was not a difficult one, I guess one major objective is to evluate the interviewee's English communication skill, which I am OK. I was quite nurvus when waiting for the interviewer - since I didn't do interview for almost 2 years, all the time was I interviewing others. But when the guys comes and we started to talk, all things get fine.

Tips - be clear on why MBA, why Darden, show your knowledge on Darden(I didn't do my homework well that when he asked me one question about what particular entrepreneurship in Darden attracted me, I didn't answer well).

Darden requires HUGE working pressure - we talked a lot on that. He asked about a typical week of mine - to understand if I can have good time management skill.

The guy is a quite nice guy, very flexible when we arrange the time and place, very nice.

myice

两个小时零十分钟的Darden面试
面试在一家不错的酒店的咖啡吧里进行。我提前到的，挑了一个靠窗的位子，可以看到酒店后园子里的假山，喷泉和池塘。面试开始时，咖啡吧里还有很多人在喝下午茶，我还把遮阳帘子拉下来，我们离开时，已经开始提供晚餐了，天都暗下来了。

校友是个很认真、很严谨的人。问题细到我每个时间段的每个细节，结束时我说：you have already asked everything happened in my life, (note: the thing we could really consider it a thing. 他说，这是件很重要的事，对你对学校都一样。

最后十分钟我的提问时间，谈到读MBA的感受，他说：他去时年龄稍大，所以对他的职业生涯帮助没有想象中大，建议读B-SCHOOL要趁早。但即使如此，他认为无论如何都是非常值得的，对今后20年都会有影响。

闲言少续，问题有：(不过大多数人估计都面完了，留言在此供明年的申请人参考吧)

1.introduce youself (the only traditional question)

以下分阶段提问:

第一部分: education.

what's your average grade?
why isn't it above 95?
which subject you like most? why?
which subject you hate most? why?
第二部分:分公司提问,

what's your position in your organization? tell me about your organization.
one project you involved and impressive most.
how is your performace when interviewed by your third company.
style of leadership.
how do you understand Excel?
do you ever touch any field related to finance in your daily work?
why do you choose such career goal.
who is the general manager you admire most? who is the second one.(the current CEO of my comany was ever the CEO of his company).
tell me something you know about your CEO.

myice

这个面试是两周前（１１／０８／０６），希望对去on-campus interview的人能有帮助。　

School: Darden
Date:11/8/06 12:30pm
Length: 45 min
Interviewer: Assistant director of admission, mid-age lady.

我还是第一次秋天去美国的东北部，只能用一个词形容，层林尽染！ＵV的campus也是非常漂亮。

我的面试官准时把我领进她的办公室，她先问我要了我的Resume，不过没有看就放在她的办公桌上。

然后我们是面对面的坐在她办公室的两张椅子上。

Darden的面试比较独特，没有一堆的问题。我称之为“自由式面试”。

我的面试官在面试开始的时候就问了我一个问题“ I want to know you in the next 45 minutes, please tell me yourself and what are you doing now as well as your hobbies and remember to tell me that why you want a MBA and what are your short-term and long-term career goals. Also, I will leave you 5 minutes to ask me questions”

接下来的４０分钟更象是一次交谈，我介绍了我的教育和工作背景，短期和长期目标。在讲长期目标的时候，我提到了老年人的healthcare问题。我的面试官就和我讨论美国的nursing home,还给我讲了些美国nursing home的问题。她也问了我"what I could contribute to Darden community".
后来提到我的爱好，我说我喜欢登山和攀岩，面试官问我有没有看过“into the thin air”这本书，讲１９９６年珠峰山难。这下正好撞到枪口上，我们聊了大概１０分钟左右有关登山的话题（后来我的面试官告诉我她是Montana的人，老公现在还住在那里，难怪也知道很多登山的故事）。我还和她聊了一个今年登珠峰的ethical 的故事，我的面试官知道这个故事但是具体的细节不清楚。我就和她闲扯了几分钟，主要是关于ethical decision的话题。

时间差不多的时候，我的面试官就问我有没有什么问题问她，我就问了她几个问题。比如：她觉得darden的国际学生的表现如何。她提到语言还是一个障碍，毕竟darden的case method需要很多的课堂讨论。

最后在快结束的时候的，面试官又补充了一个问题。why darden。

个人感觉Darden的面试还不错，我喜欢这种聊天的方式。另外面试我Assistant director of admission人也超级nice.

To prepare: know yourself and have some stories to tell!

myice

Darden是我最没有把握的面试，也是adcom面试。lynn跟我说了3分钟，结果她把我越说越没谱。我心里想这是面试我还是她来宣传自己啊。结果她突然停住，开始让我介绍自己。随便说，就是想知道我是谁。我便一下就傻眼了。

尽管我知道Darden的面试有些奇特，但真没想到她想听听工作外的我是什么样子的。我于是说了30秒便往自己的职业生涯上扯。可能她看出了免我其难，便开始引导我，问我问题，总之基本就是聊了20分钟，最后便结束了。

我想这周五大概Darden该给我rejection了。

myice

Had interview with a Darden alumni this afteroon.

Not a typical business school interivew.  We talked about different issues for almost one hour.  It's just a casual chat, not a question-answer session.

Mayby my experience is different.  I heard that alumni interview would be a typical one and the interviewer will ask questions like a question-machine.  This alumni was not like a mahcine, at all.

I feel admission office interview is more to the point than an alumni one.  Probably, the admission officers are more consicious of what they are doing while an alumni does not have such consciousness.  The admission officers can ask questions which are not covered in the essays.  They are clear they want to use the interview as a chance to know more about an applicant and so to make the decision.  Well, the alumni obviously knows less about the applicant.

So far, I had two telephone interviews with schools and one alumni interivew.  

I would say telephone interview would make more sense.  If I can choose, I would choose admission office interview.

myice

Darden MBA on Campus Interview (Dec, 2006)

顺便向大家简要介绍前两次面试经验，都是我主动要求的。第一次是去年12月中旬到Charlottesville进行了Darden的校园面试，气氛随和，友好。面试者是招生委成员，就问了常规的why mba, career goal, why darden等问题，但特别问了我的业余生活和爱好。

面试持续30分钟。Darden校园很美。中午校方安排了一位二年级学生和我午餐（在学生食堂吃了一只汉堡包），同时向我介绍darden的情况并回答问题。感觉Darden的学生都很热情。Topway上的两位darden中国学生主动为我提供接送服务。那位二年级学生也主动把我送到火车站，令我很感动。

myice

In @ Darden 和一点点面试经验

住的地方不能上网，今天早上才查看status。竟然被录取了！！

整个晚上，告诉自己要平常心，虽然还是辗转反侧。。。

当初sonia700分被录取的经历让我觉得Darden是一所不以分数论英雄的学校，因为我也只有700分。

申请的第一个学校，essay其实写得并不是最好，好在Darden的essay要求不高，加到一起才1000来字。所以，要狠狠地感谢我的面试官，应该是面试给自己加了很多分。

但是，面试的过程比我想象得简单很多。据说Darden的面试会叫你讲life story。但是我的面试官上来就问我why MBA然后是Why Darden。回想起来，她问过的问题只有这两个。眼见着面试只过去了20分钟，她就叫我问问题了。

与众不同的是，我们的面试真的是一场聊天，就像我参加的一场information session后与alumni的Q&A。所以，我很放松的问起她在学校的经历等等。Q&A用了也有20多分钟，聊了这么久，要感谢面试官的耐心与真诚，也幸亏我对Darden做了足够的研究。

没有任何teamwork,leadership,challenge,failure。。。问题，竟然也没有Darden经典的life story。但是面试之后的感觉是两个字：尽兴。

这应该是一次非典型的面试吧。或许原因之一是，我和面试官来自同一个行业。

如果说面试是成功的，我有两个心得：

1）面试前，我用一个晚上，写了自己的一个小传，非常简单，从小学写起，写那些对我的成长有影响的点点滴滴，写父母对我的影响与教育，写每一个选择后面的动机。写过之后，确实觉得有一点豁然开朗的感觉。

2）面试时，与面试官保持平等对话，想象成是朋友间的一场对话。


大年初四，看了一场电影Slumdog Millionnaire，就像电影最后的字幕：It is written，所以如果尽力了，随缘就好。不管成与败，都这样安慰自己。。。


G700/iBT105/BS and MS from a top University in Shanghai/2.5 years oilfield engineering/2 years consulting/some international working experience/some community service experience

myice

Darden Alumni Interview @ 台北

I had an alumni interview with a Korean alumna in Hotel Formosa in Taipei.

She is very nice and kind, keep smiling through all the interview.

The interview took 40 minutes, she even treat me a cup of orange juice..


Questions are very standard:

1. Please describe your career progress

2. Why MBA? Why Darden?

3. The biggest challenge you might face when you are in Darden

4. Greatest achievement at work

5. Regretful experience at work

6. Strengths/Weaknesses

7. Questions

Good Luck to myself

myice

我从Gmat Club上转载过来的。给个简明的中文摘要：Darden面试成功要诀说出自己的故事，射出强烈的秋波，让面试官发出拿什么将你遗忘的感叹。

Had my interview with a member of the AdCom this morning. Allinterviews are 100% blind, she knew nothing about me or my application.It started with her asking questions about my childhood, where I wasfrom, what my family was like, etc. We progressed through undergrad andmy career, but rather than focusing on "resume-type" accomplishments,we talked more about WHY I made certain decisions, and what matters tome.

We eventually got to "why MBA", but I was never directlyasked "why Darden". I tried to weave a few pieces of "why Darden" intoour conversation. Before I knew it 45 mins was up, she gave me theopportunity to ask questions....so we talked about job prospects for abit. After an hour we were still chatting, but she had to cut it off.

OverallI think (hope) it went well, but with interviews like this its alwayshard to tell. I forgot to mention a few things that I'd hoped to workin. Oh well.

My advice to those still yet to interview:

create a mini-list of items you for sure want to cover (interestinganecdotes), its easy to get caught up in the conversation, then beforeyou know it you missed your chance to talk about that interestingundergrad EC (since you're already talking about your job)
beready to NOT talk about accomplishments, she almost seemeddisinterested when I did. I guess it makes sense, there is no point tojust regurgitate your resume during the interview - they already haveit on file. Talk about something ELSE, something interesting/dynamic
do your homework and be able to convey sincere interest in the program(I honestly think this is a big part of the interview...they try togauge this)
She said her comments would be added to my overallapplication file, then it would undergo a final review and a decisionwould be made.

Thats about it I guess.  Feel free to ask me any specific questions, I'd be happy to help out.  

Ohand also, she said they release ALL decisions (including financial aid)on Jan 28th, so no crazy stressful hair pulling out for weeks on end(ahem...Kellogg...). I was happy to hear that.

Best of luck to everyone.

myice

1月04日 上海 11：30-1：30 Darden

面的是Darden。正如很多朋友说的，Darden是没什么规律可循的，所以我想这也是大家为什么一直没写面经的结果吧。只是根据面试官的个人风格走着看。我了解一下，大概都是神聊。不过好的就是我和面试官一起吃了午饭，结果啥也没吃饱...不过最后他买单，哈哈。说实在话，没什么问题，大致涉及的话题我知道大概有创业，旅游，文化差异，还有我这聊了点童年经历对一个成年人的影响，还有聊了喝酒(哎...这个形象不好...)

据说主要是看personality，我觉得只要不是很shy，英文OK，喜欢分享的人，应该没什么问题吧。呵呵。我知道的申请的人，都拿到offer了。

祝大家都好运。祝来年的新一辈也好运。