Wharton Interview Questions

Why an MBA, why now, why Wharton.

Post MBA goals.

International experience.

Tough situation at work.

Describe a typical day at work

walk through your resume

Know your story and what you want to contribute.

Some believe leadership is innate, others think it can be taught... which do you believe?

What do you bring to Wharton?

What do you see as the differences between Harvard, Stanford and Wharton?

How do you measure success

Is there any perceived weakness in your application that you would like to address ?

What clubs and activities would you get involved in at Wharton ?

Is there any perceived weakness in your application that you would like to address ?

Do you have anything else you would like to talk about ?

Describe yourself. Difficult to know where to start but once you get going its quite simple.

Tell me something about yourself.

What do you like to do in your spare time?

who is the prominent figure that you admire? why?

"Have you ever had to work around a superior?"

"What part of your undergraduate program was most difficult for you?"

"Tell me about a time your powers of persuasion failed?"

telling me why you have made the decisions you made.

What extra-curriculars did you participate in during college?

You say Wharton would build your leadership skills - How?

How would you handle a conflict in your learning team?

Name a prominent figure you look up to.

Have you ever had an ethical dilemma?

Analyze yourself and tell me three strengths and three weaknesses.

At your graduation ceremony, what do you think you would be reflecting that you had
contributed to Wharton, and how would you have changed?

If you had 30 days without any commmitments, what would you do?

What will be your impact at Wharton?

If you were part of a team, the project was failing, and the leader wasn't doing a good job, what woudl you do?

If you had one free day, what would you do?

If you had 30 free days, what would you do?

What brings you here today?

Careerwise, was there anything in the last five years that you would have done differently?

How would you describe your best friend?

Name a leader you admire and explain why.

What do you do for fun

What do you do to relieve stress.

I wish I had known about the grading system

What will your impact be on the school when you have left?

If you were in a study group with one member who was overbearing and one member who was very reticent, how would you handle the situation?

If you did not gain admission to Wharton, what would you do?

What was your biggest challenge in life?

The most difficult question was what changes I would introduce if I were the Minister in the Government.

How would your colleauges describe your leadership style?

How would your friends describe you?

How do you plan to get the most from your time at Wharton? You have lots of things but not enough time so the most successful know how to prioritize.

What do you wish I would have asked?

What is the most recent book you read, and what do you think about it?

Have you ever disagreed with your manager?

What would you do differently if your were the CEO of your company?

What specific campus organizations will you join?

Have I had to persuade my superiors to go with something I came up with?

Have I ever been in a team conflict and how did I react to it?

What was the hardest thing you had to say no to in the past two years?

Give me your assessment of Wal-mart. Good for consumers or bulldozing machine?

What specific extra curriculars do you plan to take part in at Wharton?

Other than the reasons you stated in your essays, why do you want to go to Wharton?

What motivates you?

Why now? Why not next year or the year after?

Three qualities of a leader and an example of a situation in which you exhibited the same.

Talk about your extracurricular activities.

give an example when you conflicted with senior management

how would you want to be remembered after graduating from Wharton

What type of summer internship will you be seeking?

How would you want to be remembered?

If you are admitted, two years from now, how will your classmates remember you?

How will you fit in with the international atmosphere?

What characteristics do you look for in your team members? How do you work with a team to deal with a situation? Walk me through a situation at work that involves heavy quant skills

What do you think your friends at Wharton would remember you by at graduation?

What's a personality flaw you have?

Define leadership and how it differs from being a good manager ?

If you were the CEO of a company and had to do a downsizing - a) what people would you lay off b) how would you implement it?

Explain to me in brief what your company's product does?

What do you think makes an effective manager?

If you were working on a project with a team of peers late at night (I assume like a learning team) and they had an opinion entirely different from yours, how would you manage the situation so that the team completes the assignment the next day?

Discuss a situation in which you felt ethically challenged.

What was your best mistake?

How do you define success for a company? For yourself?

I am a 5 year-old. Explain to me what the 'internet' is.

What are the 3 most important technological innovations of the past 1000 years. (you read correctly, 1,000 years).

When asked what other schools I was applying to

How would your boss describe you? What would you did if you didn't get into Wharton? What if you didn't get into any BSchools

why are you unique,

why should we accept you

A question about something specific about my resume.

Describe a situation where you were the team leader, and had to make a difficult situation. What factors were involved, and how did you resolve it? Finally, what did you learn from it?

What is the one and only thing that you want me to know about you?

If I had the power to use one day as I pleased, what would I do?

"Assume you're a boarderline candidate. Give me your 2 best reasons to let you in."

If you could have lunch with anyone, who would it be?"

What would be the most challenging thing for you once you enroll at Wharton?

Describe an epiphany that you've had

How do you deal with political instabilities?

How do you retain the employees in your company?

What professors at Wharton are you most interested in studying under. Luckily, I read brochures and remembered a name

What's your favorite book.

What would I consider my dream opportunity? (could professional or personal)

If your friends were asked to give 3 words describing you, what would they say?

Themost difficult question was when he greeted me on entering the interview room and asked me why i was there

"If a big tornado hit all the MBA Schools in the world, what would you do ?"

Why did you choose to work for your current employer?

What do you enjoy most about your job?


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