When you apply for business school be prepared to write essays, take the GMAT, update your resume, line up letters of recommendation and go to an interview. You wrote essays when you applied to college for your undergraduate degree. The GMAT is just another test, a bit more advanced than the SAT but still a test. You have taken hundreds of those by now. Your resume could use some polishing up. You have been networking with professors for years making sure you had options lined up when it came to asking for letters of recommendation. The only unknown is the interview. What is a MBA interview question like?

Although they may seem scary as you don't know anything about college interviews, they aren't that different from job interviews. Rather than focusing on the MBA interview question you should consider your written material first. How long ago did you write that resume? Is it up to date? Does it say anything about you or did you copy someone else's format and call it good? Surprisingly, resume writing is a skill not mastered by many. Not only do you want your resume to be up to date on facts, you want it to reflect your voice. You may have grown since you last wrote that resume. You don't want an admissions officer to read your perfect essays reflecting the vast skills you have acquired just to be thrown back by the rather clumsy update of an early resume you had lying around.

Check up on your potential letters of recommendation writers as well. Make sure you give them plenty of time and verify that they remember who you are. You want them to reflect on your characteristics, your personal strengths not some general review of your grades. The admissions staff can see your grades on the report card. Just imagine sitting in your interview and receiving the MBA interview question : Who is Professor Xi? He did not seem to know you.

Practicing for the GMAT would be wise. Top tier business schools attract students with the middle GMAT scores in the 700 to 760 range. If that is where you are applying you will want to assure that your GMAT score helps your application not distracts from it. Study guides are available as are classes.

Polish your essays. Bring out your individuality. You want to stand out from the crowd. Your voice is very important in your essays. Display the mature person you are, the leadership skills, your communication skills. When you are done with them, read them in combination with your resume. Do they sound as if they were written by the same person. If they do then you are ready to start preparing for the final part of the application process, the interview. Every MBA interview question is meant to bring out your perspectives, your personality, your individuality. The admissions officers want to know whether you will be an asset to their school, whether they think you will be happy at their school and whether you will add to the culture of the institution.