Notre Dame Mendoza MBA Video Assessment Interview Examples

As part of our application process, we require a video assessment. During this assessment, members of our Admissions Committee will ask you a set of questions to better understand you as an individual. This holistic approach allows the Committee to review your application thoroughly. The video assessment is a prerequisite for your application to move forward and should be completed within 3-5 days of submitting your application.

Examples of Notre Dame MBA video questions:

  • What did you do last weekend?
  • How do you first learn about ND?
  • Favorite professor/mentor.
  • Your favorite place in the world, The favorite moment you shared with you family.
  • Favourite Speech.
  • Conflict situation?
  • What would you like to tell your future classmates?
  • Tell about an activity you enjoy.
  • What was the the greatest advice your first boss gave you?
  • What was the biggest risk you’ve taken so far?
  • How would your co-workers describe you?
  • Identify an influential figure in your lives, and why?
  • What do you do for fun?
  • What are your passions, interests, and hobbies?
  • If you could travel across the United States in a car with anyone, whom would you choose to travel with and why?
  • How have you handled a difficult interaction? What did you learn from it?
  • Describe a difficult professional decision you had to make. What were the consequences, and what, if anything, did you learn?
  • How do you celebrate success?
  • What trait is the most important to you? Why?
  • What was your best and worst purchase?
  • Imagine a person in a group who wants to do all the tasks all by himself. What strategy would you take to avoid him doing all tasks?
  • Tell me about a situation in when you remained optimistic and how it impacted your results?
  • How do you plan to balance your academic and personal life here?
  • Tell about a time you faced challenges at your school?
  • Written: what’s your favorite place in the world?
  • What was your success last week/month/year?
  • Imagine you are working in a group setting, and one of your members continuously shuts down another member’s ideas. What will you do?
  • Tell me abt a time you struggled in school?
  • tell me about a situation when you were stressed and how did you stay optimistic in that.
  • if in a project someone was holding up the project how did you deal with it and what were the results.
  • how have you prepared youself for the B school.