Well, I just got off the phone from my interview, and it was… mixed.
My interviewer was nice but quite formal. He was a second year student. He started out by asking me to describe my profile, or how he should remember me. I think I handled that one okay, but many of the other questions I felt like I rambled a bit.
Other questions included asking about my entrepreneurial experiences, why Ross, what does action based learning mean to me, why I was changing careers (and then two follow up questions on that, which really made me think that I didn’t explain it well at all), three weaknesses, and a behavioural question about a challenge I faced in a team environment, how I handled it and what I learned from it. This isn’t the right order, but you get the idea.
I think the part that went best was when I asked questions. I came up with some good ones that really caused him to go into some detail about his experience at Ross and that was what I wanted.
One thing that threw me off was that he started the interview by complimenting me on my profile. It got me confused about whether he’d seen the whole application (he hadn’t – I asked him later) and just really surprised.
Also, I’m sick today, so I think that my rambling can be at least partly attributed to that. (Even my writing is kind of rambling and disorganized!) Hopefully I didn’t mess up my chances, but I didn’t want to cancel the call.
November 20, 2007 at 5:36 am
Thanks for the ross update.Good luck with the result
November 20, 2007 at 12:54 pm
Now that the C$ is more valuable than the USD, it’ll help ur debt burden
November 23, 2007 at 3:42 am
Thanx for the update..I am sure things will go great!
I am working on the ROSS essays and apping in R2..I am kind of stuck with the 3rd essay (alt profession) and the multidisciplinary part..Can you share with me how u went about it?
November 25, 2007 at 6:17 am
OMG… you mean you are not super-hot-super-excited-hip-hip-hooray about the interview? How come you didn’t listen to my suggestion, and bring 5 friends and 3 reviewers in on the phone interview??? Ufffff… but then it’s ok, you are a girl, you have a high GMAT, and you are super-dooper-excited about everything (and your application is the collective work of 15 people), so you’ll probably get accepted, nonetheless. Fingers crossed for you to get the good news and be sooooooper-doooooper excited come January.