Rice Interview

A couple of days after the McCombs interview I had my Rice interview. I chose to have them a couple of days apart because I knew I would have some capacity and didn’t want to risk scheduling the Rice interview for the following week and something coming up at work (and that is exactly what happened).

I have been most impressed with Rice as a whole even though I wasn’t able to meet anyone from their admissions team. For example, I noticed that their website did not have any information on the experiences of the spouses of students and this is something my other half wanted some insight on. I reached out to them asking where I could get this information. The admissions officer provided a detailed response where she shared a number of ways spouses are made to feel a part of the community. I then got a message two days later from a second year student saying the admissions officer had been in touch informing him I wanted to know about the experiences of the spouses of MBA students and that he would be happy to have a chat with me. He is married and shared the experiences of his wife. He was very generous with his time (call lasted about 30/40 mins) and the conversation went really well. This all happened before the interview.

Like McCombs, Rice send you a link to access the interview at the time given. The interviewer was a second year student, and has been the case with my interaction throughout the process with Rice he was very pleasant. He asked all the same questions as with McCombs. What was interesting about him was he also shared his own experiences of the questions he asked which enabled me get to know him better. He encouraged me to ask him as many questions as I could and we have kept in touch since. Rice are a very small, tight knit community and this has been very apparent in my experiences with them.