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We have collected the following questions from various interview experience blogs of students and alumni who were recently interviewed for University of Chicago (Booth School of Business). They are not structured in any particular order. Feel free to use them for your reference. 

School Name: University of Chicago (Booth School of Business)

1. Tell me about yourself and how you got here.

2. What are your goals and why do you need an MBA?

3. Why Chicago? Why not Kellogg?

4. Why are you doing a second Masters degree?

5. Tell me about a couple of leadership experiences.

6. If you had a team member that wasn't carrying his/her weight, how would you approach it?

7. Any questions for me?

8. First question I was asked was to describe my career progression to date and why I was pursuing an MBA at Chicago.

9. I was given a case study on the spot.

10. Discussion on my current position, my weaknesses and my previous experiences.

11. In-depth discussion about my extra curricular activity.

12. What would you do to change the organization?

13. Tell me about a teamwork experience from work.

14. What are your long-term and short-term goals?

15. Tell me about your hip-hop dancing.

16. Tell me something interesting from your trip to Thailand.

17. How do you find if a person is a team player or not while interviewing the candidate?

18. Then he asked me how do I plan to repay my loans and when do I think would be the right time to start working on my long-term goals.

19. Then he asked me about some of my community service experiences.

20. Then he asked which other schools I am applying to and then he explained the interview process and beyond.

21. Tell me about a time where you failed at something and what did you learn from it?

22. He noticed a volunteering experience on my resume and asked me about it.

23. What do you think you’d contribute while at Booth?

24. How would the people who work for you describe you as a manager?

25. Tell me about a time when you faced an unprecedented obstacle and what did you do to overcome it.

26. What kind of impression does Chicago GSB give you, and what is the one thing that you would change about it.

1. Some questions about the flexible curriculum, student clubs, and student life.

2. About the communal culture and experiential learning approach.

3. I just asked him about which classes he felt were "must take" classes and what made him choose Chicago over the other schools he was admitted to.