Like most M7 MBA programs, MIT Sloan interviews are by invitation only.
This year, Sloan asks candidates to submit responses to two questions prior to the interview (up from just one last year). Pre-interview requirements seem to be a growing trend among top schools; Fortuna’s Bill Kooser recently wrote on how to respond to Chicago Booth’s new video question, which this year’s candidates received within their invitation to the interview.
The first question is a behavioral prompt that seeks evidence of your active alignment with MIT Sloan’s mission, and its values around diversity and inclusion. It’s also excellent foreshadowing for the questions you can expect in your interview, as they tend to skew toward behavioral. Like many programs, Sloan perceives past behavior as a predictor of your future potential, and you can anticipate that your interviewer will want to explore this in more depth during your interview. (For MIT Sloan interview tips and example behavioral questions, view this related article by Fortuna’s Brittany Maschal.)