Some great news this week!  The email "Invitation to interview" just arrived from MIT-Sloan!  Almost a perfect Christmas present...  although having been accepted would be THE perfect present :)

Some great news this week!  The email "Invitation to interview" just arrived from MIT-Sloan!  Almost a perfect Christmas present...  although having been accepted would be THE perfect present :)

 

Well it appears that I've been through the first stage of application review and now the interview part.  A good sign, although an interview doesn't guarantee a spot.  I recall that typically (across the top business schools), only between 50-75% of interviewees are offered a spot.  While the odds are stacked in your favour, it's not a definite.

 

Anyway, the interview applicaton form is an online system in which you choose a 1 hour slot of a given week.  What's different from Columbia, too, is that you are interviewed by one of the admissions committee members, who has read your entire application.  The final thing that is a little different is that the it is a "behavioural events based" interview.  More details can be found at MIT's interview guide.  In short, the focus is on how you reacted in the past - really trying to see your leadership traits.

 

So it looks I have some preparing to get into!