Clear Admit專訪top-15 MBA Adcom系列: Oxford

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大家好! Clear Admit最近完成了一系列的MBA Adcom Directors一對一專訪, 而且已開始將專訪的內容公佈在我們的網站上! 我們會在這裡PO每個專訪的小片段（因為整個訪問內容太長不方便​全部PO，請見諒！） 如想看全部專訪內容請到：

http://blog.clearadmit.com/​category/​admissions-director-qa/

現在， 請看專訪系列的下一位訪問對象：

Oxford Said Business School MBA Director: Stephan Chambers (SC)

CA: How does your team approach the essay portion of the application specifically? What are you looking for as you read the essays? Are there common mistakes that applicants should try to avoid? One key thing they should keep in mind as they sit down to write them?

SC: We are looking for people who can engage with abstraction and who write clearly. We take the essays very seriously. They are another means by which we make the assessment of who will benefit most from our program and vice versa. That being said, the only element we weight disproportionally highly is the interview. As for mistakes to avoid, things to keep in mind – it is not as simple as that. There are common mistakes, certainly. To be unclear, to make assertions that are unsubstantiated – those are mistakes you should avoid. But there is really no easy rule to this. You have to have read a lot, written a lot and thought a lot.

Since the interview is weighted more than other portions of the application, I will provide some words of advice for it. Make sure the things you are supposed to know about you know about. If you work in risk in a large institution, for example, you should expect to be asked to develop an argument about risk – not about leadership. Where you should be most comfortable is where you will be most tested.

Stay tuned for more interview excerpts from the admissions directors of other top MBA programs!

Best,
Kevin
kevin@clearadmit.com

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Kevin Chen
Senior Admissions Counselor, Clear Admit LLC (http://www.clearadmit.com/)
Stanford Graduate School of Business, class of 2005
Harvard Kennedy School of Government, class of 2000
Princeton University, class of 1994
Previous work experiences: McKinsey; NBA; Reuters