NYU Stern Interview Report: Round 3 / Adcom / On-campus
The following NYU / Stern MBA interview report was submitted to Clear Admit by a Round 3 applicant who was admitted. Congratulations to them!
Prior to the interview I was told that Stern’s interview style was very much a two-way street between interviewer and interviewee. In other words it was very conversational.
Luckily I still did my homework as this was not at all my experience. Although the admissions counselor was gracious and polite her questions were formal and pointed and were certainly not conversational.
Some questions I was asked:
What is a typical workday right now at my job?
If I had 6 months after school to affect change at my current job what would I do and why?
Why did I want to go back to school now?
Why Stern?
What do I think makes a leader/ how am I a leader?
What would I say my biggest failure to date was?
When was a time that I saw an inefficiency at work and resolved it?
What would I say my greatest accomplishment to date was?
What would I like my summer internship to be?
If I got that internship, what three things would I bring to the company that would make me stand out?
Where would I most like to travel/ study and why?
My interviewer clearly knew a lot about me before we sat down. She did not take any notes so it appeared that she was looking more at the big picture. I think it is very important to have done your homework regarding the school- know the faculty you are interested in working with, etc. I also think that she was impressed with my answer for summer internship choice as I was able to cite things about the corporations that would currently make internship experience there useful. This clearly showed that I did my homework and also demonstrated that I had a pulse on what is going on in the business world these days. I would highly recommend having a fine-tuned answer for this.
All in all it was a pleasant experience. I left it not totally convinced one way or another. Good news was I did indeed receive an admissions letter 5 business days after!
Clear Admit’s own roots stretch back to the University of Pennsylvania’s Wharton School—where co-founders Graham Richmond and Eliot Ingram both received their MBAs and Richmond went on to work in the Wharton Admissions Office. Continuing to hone their expertise in the MBA admissions process at top-tier schools, the two Wharton MBAs would soon launch Clear Admit, the leading independent resource for top-tier MBA candidates.
MBA Mama Co-Founder and CEO Divinity Matovu (Wharton MBA 2017)
Meanwhile, another Wharton MBA student has been hard at work on her own business concept. Wharton rising second-year MBA student Divinity Matovu is co-founder and CEO of MBA Mama, an online platform providing ambitious women with tools and resources to leverage an MBA and strategically navigate family/career planning. Together with co-founder Nicole Pontón, an MBA student at Duke’s Fuqua School of Business, the two have been making the MBA Mama name known far and wide. The things the duo had been working on caught our eye, and we reached out to Matovu last fall to ask if she would share some of her experiences as an MBA mom in our Fridays from the Frontline column. She graciously agreed.
That could well have been that, but not if you’ve met Matovu. She saw potential for more and went after it. Remember how MBA Mama’s mission is to provide ambitious women with tools and resources to leverage an MBA? Recognizing that many of Clear Admit’s tools and resources—from our in-depth School Guides and Interview Guides to our crowdsourced MBA LiveWire and MBA DecisionWire tools—would be good for her subscribers to also have in their arsenals, she reached out to propose a partnership.
MBA Mama Co-Founder and COO Nicole Pontón (Fuqua MBA 2017)
Discounts on Clear Admit Products for MBA Mama Subscribers
Under the terms of the partnership, any MBA Mama subscriber is eligible to receive 20 percent off Clear Admit’s award-winning School Guides and Interview Guides using a special MBA Mama discount code.
Parental Resources Section to Be Added to Clear Admit Guides
But that’s not all. Over the next year, MBA Mama will be working with Clear Admit to add a “Parental Resources” segment to the Student Life chapter of all Clear Admit School Guides. This new segment will feature critical information to help prospective MBA parents—and especially moms—identify resources available to them at a wide range of schools, including Chicago Booth, UCLA Anderson, Tuck, London Business School, UT-McCombs and IESE and many more.
Matovu herself spent dozens of hours researching MBA programs when she applied to business school in 2014 as part of the curriculum for the MLT MBA Prep Fellowship Program. “For nearly every school I was interested in, it was incredibly difficult to identify student mom ambassadors or find comprehensive, up-to-date information relevant to me as an MBA mom,” she says. In fact, this absence of information helped spur the creation of MBA Mama.
“Now, through this strategic partnership with Clear Admit, we will be able to institutionalize the knowledge transfer of information MBA moms care about, like financing options for students with dependents, daycare facilities on campus, location of lactation suites, maternal health resources for moms expecting during business school and family programming,” she says. “I am thrilled about the potential for MBA Mama to add value to the Clear Admit School Guides.”
We here at Clear Admit are thrilled that MBA Mama reached out to us with this fantastic, relevant way to make our award-winning school and interview guides even more valuable to a wider range of applicants, and we jumped at the chance to collaborate. Our first batch of new school guides for the 2016-17 admissions cycle will feature this great new content, which is of course also valuable to men who are parents in business school. A parental resources section will eventually be added to all of the school guides in the Clear Admit series.
Content-Sharing Across the Clear Admit and MBA Mama Platforms
We are also excited to share some of our Clear Admit content with MBA Mama readers in coming months. And we can’t wait to republish on our site some of MBA Mama’s inspiring features of women who make balancing motherhood and the MBA look like a cake walk (while revealing that there is a lot of hard work, unbelievable time management skills and no shortage of sacrifice at play behind the scenes).
We immediately saw the proposed partnership as a win-win, and we hope you’ll agree. Stay tuned in coming weeks and months as the fruits of this partnership with MBA Mama begin to unfold on our respective websites and in the newest series of guides, which will be available in late July.
Our thanks to Matovu for proposing the partnership. And though something of a coincidence, the Wharton ties between our companies and our shared Philly location have certainly made getting together to discuss things super easy—not to mention fun!
Boost your resume with our online certificate program for non-business majors! Register TODAY to save 20% unc.live/1NSlaMM
Today is the last day to save $500 when you register for Business Essentials, the online certificate program from UNC Kenan-Flagler Business School. Tell your friends.
Attempts to cut medical wait times can backfire. http://chibooth.biz/25wNN6J
http://www.forbes.com/sites/karstenstrauss/2016/05/30/the-worlds-most-competitive-countries-2016-u-s-no-longer-no-1/#7b5b0d9c3fea
The United States was knocked out of the top spot in this year’s ranking of the world’s most competitive countries, a position it has held since 2013. This according to the annual evaluation by the International Institute for Management Development (IMD), a Switzerland-based private business school…
Meet JoAnn Trowbridge, nine years active duty in the United States Army, a major in the U.S. Army Reserves, and an MBA ’15 graduate from Warren, Pennsylvania. JoAnn deployed to Iraq in 2004 and 2009. Thereafter, she spent three years as a team leader on more than 10 recovery missions involving POW/MIA personnel in Southeast Asia, Belgium, Germany, Micronesia and New Guinea.“The leadership opportunities my military service afforded were incredibly valuable, but I knew that I lacked the technical and analytical skills to transition into the business world at a level that would match my leadership experience,” Joann said. “The strong analytical foundation Tepper affords enabled me to break into that next level.”
During her time at the Tepper School, JoAnn was an officer in the Tepper Women in Business club, a member of the Veterans Club and a founder of the Christian Business Association, while also launching a startup in clothing for new mothers.
In addition to working as a senior project manager in finance with Union Pacific in Omaha, Nebraska, JoAnn is also a mother to Joel, a 21-month-old son she had just five days before the start of her second Tepper School year. “The best thing and most time-consuming change by far to come out of my time at Tepper was my son, Joel. My husband [Jesse, MBA ’14] and I found out we were pregnant right before my Mini 2 Optimization final. I was in such a daze, it’s a miracle I even made it to the correct room to take the test.” #TepperLife #MilitaryAppreciationMonth
During her Full-Time MBA at Imperial College Business School, alumna Claire Cockerton specialised in Innovation, Entrepreneurship and Design, and helped establish the business model for Virgin’s ‘Branson Centre for Entrepreneurship’. She’s now a serial entrepreneur driving innovation in FinTech in the heart of London’s financial centre. Read more: http://imprl.biz/1OIUvwT
Claire Cockerton (Full-Time MBA '10) talks about her MBA journey from running her own business in Canada to setting up her own companies driving innovation in FinTech in the heart of London's financial centre.Today, Claire is a serial entrepreneur and an industry leader in financial …
Join Professor Aaron Chatterji on campus June 15 to discuss ways to keep that entrepreneurial spirit alive in your organization. This event is part of our Business & Bagels series, and is open to the public.More info: http://dukefuqua.com/1Xo0vlw
“The DNA of an educational experience here is totally unique—everyone is completely invested in the community." Discover the pathway of Whitney Flynn T'16.
The Tuck School of Business at Dartmouth …
Comments
Post a Comment