Dr. Lois Frankel is a nationally recognized "career coach." In a recent radio spot she advised managers about to interview a potential employee: "Preparing in advance – not winging it – is the secret to good interviewing." The same is true for the interviewees, including MBA applicants facing admissions interviews.
To those of you who will soon receive interview invitations, you can prepare in advance by taking advantage of the MBA Interview Feedback Database (MBAIFDB) which is a treasure-trove of valuable feedback from previously interviewed applicants organized by school. You can also filter for specific areas of interest and other criteria.
The MBAIFDB has:
- 1485 total interview reports
- For 103 schools
- 160 entries for this application cycle.
Users of the MBAIFDB have rated the feedback so you can see which reports are most valuable.
Here are the totals for most of the schools in the database:
161 Northwestern (Kellogg)
115 University of Pennsylvania (Wharton)
82 California at Berkeley (Haas)
75 University of Chicago
74 Columbia
72 Duke (Fuqua)
61 Dartmouth (Tuck)
59 University of Michigan
57 UCLA (Anderson)
52 Carnegie Mellon
49 Harvard
46 NYU (Stern)
46 University of Virginia (Darden)
43 UNC (Kenan-Flagler)
38 INSEAD (France and Singapore)
37 Yale University
35 Stanford Graduate School of Business
22 Cornell (Johnson)
22 Emory (Goizueta)
22 University of Texas — Austin
19 Georgetown (McDonough)
19 Indiana University
18 MIT (Sloan)
14 London Business School (UK)
14 Oxford
13 USC (Marshall)
11 Maryland (Smith)
10 University of Rochester (Simon)
9 Michigan State (Broad)
9 Notre Dame (Mendoza)
9 Babson College
8 California at Irvine
8 Vanderbilt University
7 University of Washington
6 Boston University
6 North Carolina State University
5 Penn State
5 Southern Methodist (Cox)
5 Boston College (Carroll)
5 Indian School of Business (ISB)
5 HEC Graduate Business School
5 Toronto (Rotman), Canada
5 University of Colorado at Boulder
4 University of Western Ontario
4 IMD (Switzerland)
4 Cranfield University (UK)
4 Manchester Business School
3 The University of Navarra (IESE)
3 Ohio State University
3 Fordham University
3 Instituto de Empresa (Spain)
3 Arizona State
3 Baruch College (CUNY)
3 Washington University (Olin)
2 Wake Forest (Babcock)
2 University of Minnesota (Carlson)
2 Thunderbird Graduate School
2 University of Phoenix
2 American University (Kogod)
2 Brigham Young University (Marriott)
2 Rotterdam School of Mgmt
2 Texas A&M University (Mays)
2 Other
2 University of Arizona (Eller)
(all others w/ 1)
Here is the number of reports organized by school that have been provided since August 1, 2005, mostly reports for this application cycle:
30 Northwestern (Kellogg)
9 University of Pennsylvania (Wharton)
8 Columbia
8 University of Michigan
7 Dartmouth (Tuck)
7 Emory (Goizueta)
7 Stanford Graduate School of Business
7 UCLA (Anderson)
7 UNC (Kenan-Flagler)
6 Harvard
6 Carnegie Mellon
5 Duke (Fuqua)
5 Yale University
4 INSEAD (France and Singapore)
3 London Business School (UK)
3 University of Virginia (Darden)
3 Georgetown (McDonough)
3 California at Irvine
2 Boston College (Carroll)
2 Indiana University
2 University of Chicago
1 Toronto (Rotman), Canada
1 University of Washington
1 Vanderbilt University
1 Wake Forest (Babcock)
1 Maryland (Smith)
1 MIT (Sloan)
1 Notre Dame (Mendoza)
1 NYU (Stern)
1 Oxford
1 Penn State
1 HEC Graduate Business School
1 Indian School of Business (ISB)
1 Fordham University
1 George Washington University
1 Boston University
1 California at Berkeley (Haas)
1 AGSM
1 Babson College
1 Cornell (Johnson)
So for those of you about to interview, please prepare in advance and take advantage of the MBAIFDB. After you interview, please share the experience by filling out the MBAIFDB questionnaire. No registration required. In addition, all those who submit an interview report are eligible to participate in Acceptedcom’s It’s a 10! contest.
A final bit of wisdom from Dr. Frankel: “Chance favors the prepared mind.” Prepare for your MBA admissions interview using the MBA Interview Feedback Database.
If you want one-on-one interview coaching or a mock interview, consider Accepted.com’s MBA Interview Prep.
