Round 2 / Off-Campus / Alumni (Published March 18th, 2009)
I interviewed with a Stanford alumni. The interviewer was very friendly and he was eager to share his positive GSB experience. The interview lasted approximately 1 hour (10 min intro/icebreaker, 40 min questions/conversations, 10 min Q&A).
Tell me a bit about yourself.
Why MBA?
Why now?
Tell me about a leadership / team experience.
Difficult situation / how you dealt with it/
what was the result?
Tell me about a time when others have pointed out a weakness of yours.
Overall, he was very interested in the processes and reasoning behind my stories and decisions. We have several lengthy discussions about how the experiences I had could contribute to the Stanford learning experience and how the business principles taught at Stanford could be applied in certain scenarios.