About youIntermediateTraditional one-on-one, Panel
We have 5,000 applicants for 150 seats. Why should we pick you?
About you: Tell me about yourself, why this school, strengths, weaknesses and plans.
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Sample answer outline
- Choose two or three strengths and back each one with a single piece of evidence.
- Connect them to what this school values: its mission, community, research or service.
- Say what you would add to the class: a perspective, a skill, a commitment others may not bring.
- Finish confidently and briefly. Don't compare yourself with other applicants.
What makes it work
- Evidence keeps confidence from sounding like arrogance.
- Framing it as fit with the school answers the real question.
Avoid
- A list of adjectives with nothing behind them.
- Putting other applicants down.
How to approach about you questions
- Answer the question you were asked in your first sentence.
- Back each claim with one concrete example.
- Connect it to the program and the career.
- Keep it to one or two minutes.
What it tests
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