R1 applicants, what questions did you get during the HBS interview?

And what are resources you think are the most relevant to prep with?

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I did no mocks and got accepted. The interview was a conversation and I felt like not being overly prepared helped me come of as natural and not forced.

The only thing I did to prep was look over everything in my application and think to myself “how did I do this, what was the impact, and why did I do it”, which prepared me well.

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This is helpful!

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It was mostly just asking about my path and why I made the choices I did. In terms of prep, it thought about in a similar way to when I did my McK PEI

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Very much based on my profile and essay and why I did certain projects or initiatives at work.

Do a lot of mocks either with consultants or those who went through the process - also based on your geography you might roughly know who’s going to interview you and their typical interview style / questions - can prep those

Feel free to dm if you’d like to do a mock and I can try to help

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