Memorable Stories From MBA Admission Interviews ?

I am a M7 alum and have been selected to interview prospective MBA candidates. 5 years out of school, kind of looking forward to checking out young blood. I am 33. School has obviously told me the list / type of questions they want me to provide feedback on. I interviewed with the adcom committee, so cant relate 

anyways, that's not the point of this thread, any funny / memorable stories from your time as an MBA admissions interviewer or interviewee ? Felt like posting, thanks 

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"If you always put limits on everything you do, physical or anything else, it will spread into your work and into your life. There are no limits. There are only plateaus, and you must not stay there, you must go beyond them." - Bruce Lee
 

I recently interviewed a girl. She was my first ever interviewee. I think I am going to have to reject her. Intelligent person, but didn't appear to have convincing reasons to do a MBA. She also was all over the place with respect to her career goals. Anyways, she seemed like a nice person, and it's actually hard for me to reject someone. I have done job interviews in the past, but those don't feel hard when it comes to rejection..

 

Which school are you doing interviews for? I recently did for my alma mater (Booth) and my God you have to remain focused during the 40-50 mins, which is hard... It obviously is so important to the candidates that to zoom out would be an EXTREME disservice to them. I have only done two interviews so far: passed a rejection on the first, and to the second I said, she was "nice, but not a standout". 

Writing a 1-2 page interview report at the end is also time consuming....

 

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