Interview taken by One 2nd year student; Skype interview for international student. Lasts around 35-40min.

Overall it was quite relaxed. If you are prepared for some of those questions, you should be fine.

1. Walk me through your resume and share some of the hi-lights

2. Why do I want to pursue this career goal? Why an MBA now? And why Kelley?
3. What skills do you have that you can contribute in a team?
4. How will a Kelley MBA help me achieve my career goal?

1. Why MBA
2. Why Indiana
3. What would your teammates learn from you.
4. What would you learn from them.
5. Differences between startup and corporate culture (I transitioned from corporate to start-up).
6. Anything else you want to tell me, which you think I should know (bring out the best thing which you
don't have on your resume).
7. Any questions.

1. Why MBA? Why Kelley?

2. In what position do you want to see yourself after MBA?
3. While selecting MBA schools, which aspects did you consider?
4. What motivates you?
5. What do you do in your free time?
6. How would you want your Kelley team to be?
7. What will your teammates learn from you?
8. What would your colleagues highlight as your strengths?
9. What would your colleagues highlight as your improvement areas?
10. Do you have any regrets in your journey till now?
11. Do you have any apprehensions to do an MBA now?
12. Tell me if there is anything you’d want me to know about you?
13. What are you most proud of?
14. Any challenging/pressure situations you worked in.
15. Skills you have developed so far from your professional life.
16. Do you have any apprehensions to do an MBA from US?
17. What qualities should members of a good team have?
18. What qualities have you developed through my professional experience?
19. How do I deal with an irate/frustrated customer? (As I am working in a customer support role)
20. What was my learning from failures in my entrepreneurial ventures?
21. My long-term goal.
22. Tell me three things the adcom should know about you.
Hint: What makes you unique to the program?
23. Hobbies.
24. Questions if you have any.

Really got a feel of a conversational interview; discussed something or the other in almost every question.

Got an interview with Paul Carlson today. It was a nice and very friendly talk. Paul was very funny and open.
It took about 30 mins.

1. Tell about Work Experience.

2. Why MBA and Why now?

3. How do i define "success"

4. What's my leadership style?

5. Tell about a conflict situation

6. Tell about a situation when I received a constructive feedback from Management.

7. Challenge my education and my work experience whether they were related to data analytics (as I'm
focusing on Marketing Analytics)

8. How did I know about Kelley?

Kelley MBA interview experience

Interviewed Face to face by Scott Smart, full-time chair of Kelley MBA program, in Bangalore India
at TAJ hotel’s lobby. He was a very friendly guy.

The interview started with basic question – explain your work at PwC (Not Tell me about yourself).
Then he asked Why MBA? Why Kelley? What are my plans on working in the United States?

From there he moved to situational questions. I had mentioned in previous answer while explaining
my work experience that I lead a team and I work in multicultural teams, so he asked what challenges
I have faced while leading a team? I explained with examples. He also asked – How is working in
multi-cultural teams is different? What different I do in such situations.

Then he asked- What is my leadership style? What I do if someone in my team does not pull its own
weight? What is an ideal work environment according to me?

After that, he asked to explain my most significant life experience. I mentioned two instances- one
about my social experience and startup experience. He then asked what did I learn while working in a
startup, explain two major learnings ( I had written about my startup in one of the essays as well so I
answered around the same points). We spoke about importance of cultural fit. He talked about his
experience.

At last, he asked, what will I do to gel in Kelley classroom. I explained my experience of working in
global teams and how will I utilize those experiences in creating a collaborative and inclusive
environment.

I asked him two questions- one around Consulting and Entrepreneurial Academy, and other around
community work and social projects at Kelley.

My interview lasted for around 20 mins and it was mostly conversational. His questions were based on

my answers. Overall, it was a pleasant experience, and I am eagerly waiting for the result
My two cents for those who are yet to appear for interview

1. List down your 3-4 selling points and make sure that you come across those points while answering
the questions.

2. Be proactive and give information to interviewer instead of being reactive and waiting for the
interviewer to ask question and pull out the information about you

3. Try and give examples to all questions.

4. Prepare. Prepare. Prepare.

I did 3-4 mocks before my actual interview

https://gmatclub.com/forum/calling-all-kelley-indiana-mba-applicants-2018-intake-class-of-
245453.html#p2001795

1. Walk me through your résumé.

2. Why an MBA? Or Career Goals

3. Why Kelley? Or how will a Kelley MBA help me achieve my career goal?

4. Why now?
5. Strengths and improvement areas.

6. How will you contribute to your Kelley team?

7. What will you learn from them?

8. What do you do in your personal time?

9. Anything else you want me to know?

10. Any apprehensions about doing an MBA?

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11. Any questions for me?

12. Tell me about a time you received criticism. How did you react?
13. What kind of leader am I?
14. Where do I usually find myself on a team?
15. Describe an obstacle you faced at workplace, how did you overcome it
16. Did you receive any feedback early on in your career which has helped you
17. Describe instances of leadership outside work
18. Which skills I think I would be taught in an MBA program that would be essential to reach my goals.
19. Accomplishment I am most proud of.
20. Do you think you are a smart person?
21. Any geographic region you’d like to live in post-graduation?
22. Where are you originally from?
23. What would your co-workers say they like most about you? What would they say you can improve?
24. How did you hear about Kelley?
25. Anything you’d like to tell me about yourself that’s not on your resume? (last question)
26. What skills do you have that you can contribute in a team? What would you learn from them?
27. While selecting MBA schools, which aspects did you consider?
28. What motivates you?
29. How would you want your Kelley team to be?
30. What would your colleagues highlight as your strengths?
31. What would your colleagues highlight as your improvement areas
32. Do you have any regrets in your journey till now? (Discussed about my Under Grad Major which got me
nowhere)
33. Any challenging/pressure situations you worked in.
34. Skills you have developed so far from your professional life.
35. How do i define "success"
36. Tell about a conflict situation