{"id":689,"date":"2008-11-09T07:43:27","date_gmt":"2008-11-09T13:43:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.mbamission.com\/blog\/2008\/11\/09\/mission-admission-on-campus-vs-off-%e2%80%93campus-interviews\/"},"modified":"2010-10-07T08:10:22","modified_gmt":"2010-10-07T14:10:22","slug":"mission-admission-on-campus-vs-off-%e2%80%93campus-interviews","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mbamission.com\/blog\/mission-admission-on-campus-vs-off-%e2%80%93campus-interviews\/","title":{"rendered":"Mission Admission: On-Campus vs. Off \u2013Campus Interviews"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Mission Admission is a series of MBA admission tips; a new one is posted each Tuesday.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>As interview requests increase from a trickle to a flow,\u00a0a few questions begin to trouble MBA candidates.\u00a0 Should I travel to campus to meet with the Admissions Committee, or should I meet with an alumnus in my area? Further, if I am on campus, am I at a disadvantage if I meet with a current student instead of an Admissions Officer?<\/p>\n<p>Well, the good news is that Admissions Officers constantly emphasize that there is no additional weight given to meeting with a member of the Admissions Committee and state that all interviews are treated equally. (Logically, what incentive do they have to mislead you? Why would they want to disadvantage\u00a0one group of\u00a0candidates over the other? ) That written, we do advise candidates who have not yet visited their target campuses to seize the opportunity to do so via their interviews. If time and funds are not at issue, candidates should elect to travel to campus, as they can \u201ckill two birds with one stone\u201d &#8212; they can experience and evaluate a target program that is within their reach, all the while\u00a0revealing their\u00a0personal interest\u00a0to the program itself.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mission Admission is a series of MBA admission tips; a new one is posted each Tuesday. As interview requests increase from a trickle to a flow,\u00a0a few questions begin to trouble MBA candidates.\u00a0 Should I travel to campus to meet with the Admissions Committee, or should I meet with an alumnus in my area? Further, &hellip; <a class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.mbamission.com\/blog\/mission-admission-on-campus-vs-off-%e2%80%93campus-interviews\/\">Read&nbsp;More&nbsp;&nbsp;<i class=\"fal fa-sm fa-angle-right\"><\/i><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-689","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mission-admission"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.7 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Mission Admission: On-Campus vs. Off \u2013Campus Interviews | mbaMission - MBA Admissions Consulting<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.mbamission.com\/blog\/mission-admission-on-campus-vs-off-\u2013campus-interviews\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Mission Admission: On-Campus vs. Off \u2013Campus Interviews | mbaMission - MBA Admissions Consulting\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Mission Admission is a series of MBA admission tips; a new one is posted each Tuesday. 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