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Interview Question Examples
What are your long-range career goals?
What made you decide to pursue a graduate degree in ____?
For what career area are you preparing?
Why do you think you'd be happy and successful in that career?
Why did you apply to this particular program? Where did you hear about us?
Why should we accept you into our program? How would you describe yourself?
Tell us something interesting about yourself.
What are the most important rewards you expect in your graduate training? In your career?
What are your greatest strengths and weaknesses?
What two or three accomplishments in your life have given you the most satisfaction?
How do you work under pressure? How do you handle stress?
You will be required to take some rigorous courses that may not be of much interest to you. How do you feel about taking such courses?
What major academic problem have you faced and how did you deal with it?
What did you particularly like about your undergraduate education? What did you like least?
What could you add to our department?
Have you been involved in any research?
Give me some examples of your doing more than was required in a course.
Is there anything additional we should know about you?
If you don't mind telling us, what other schools have you applied to?
Do you have any ambitions to teach?
Give us some examples of your creativity, initiative, maturity, and breadth of interest.