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Being invited to interview with one of your target MBA programs is a real achievement. Most top schools extend invitations to only 8%–33% of their applicant pool, so reaching this stage means that your written application has already cleared the bar. The goal of your admissions interview is not to be flawless but to be … Read More  

You walk out of your Harvard Business School (HBS) interview, and you are either floating on cloud nine and feeling amazing, or your mind is racing with “could’ve, should’ve, would’ve.” You wish you could run back to the interviewer to clarify your answers or add details. With the HBS Post-Interview Reflection, you can! Not literally, … Read More  

The Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania uses a very different interview format than most business schools do, opting for a virtual  in place of a traditional admissions interview to evaluate its candidates. In this post, we explain what you can expect in the Wharton TBD and how best to prepare for this one-of-a-kind … Read More  

Maybe you are one of the unlucky applicants on the outside looking in this year, shaking your head and struggling to understand why you were not accepted to your target MBA program. As you look back and assess where things might have gone wrong, you could end up focusing unduly on your MBA interviews. After … Read More  

Now is the time to get ready for the HBS admissions interview, which is crucial step in your application process. mbaMission’s Devi Vallabhaneni, a Harvard Business School graduate and former HBS MBA interviewer, has more than 20 years of experience in MBA admissions and readiness. She has conducted thousands of real and mock HBS interviews … Read More