The beauty of the business school interview is that applicants are the foremost experts themselves—they know why they have made the decisions that have led them to applying to an MBA program, what their unique strengths are and where they want to go next in their careers. The challenge, however, is figuring out how to best communicate this information to the interviewer and eloquently tell stories from the past that best illustrate the applicant’s abilities de- spite time constraints. While every school looks for slightly different attributes in its appli- cants, admissions officers will generally use the interview to answer a few.
