Tell me about your ideal role two years from now. What do you envision yourself doing and how do you think Cornell's program will help you prepare for it?(必考)
What is the best advice you’ve received?
What advice would you give to yourself when you were first in college?
What are the things you’ve recently learned?
What is your biggest failure, and what did you learn from it?
What is the most meaningful accomplishment outside of academia?
Tell me about a failure you faced and what you learned.
If you could go back in time, what advice would you give your first-year self?
When faced with risk, how do you handle it?
What is the most important characteristic of leadership? (Include an example of a leader you admire)
What would you advise a new student in college?
Describe a teamwork experience you are proud of.
A time you successfully helped a team reach consensus.
Accomplishments you're proud of outside of academics.
2. Career and Job Search
Your biggest concern in the job search process.
A book that greatly influenced your career goal.
How did COVID-19 affect your career and job outlook?
How can you improve your resume right now?
What is your biggest concern regarding job searching?
Your ideal job and how AI can benefit that career.
3. Teamwork & Leadership
Describe a proud teamwork experience.
How do you help a team reach consensus?
What motivates you in your studies or work?
What are the most important characteristics of leadership? (Include an example of a leader you admire)
When working in a team, how do you contribute to the team's success?
4. Networking & Professional Relationships
What do you think is the most effective method for making new professional connections?
A networking platform you use and a successful experience.
How do you establish good professional relationships?
How would you approach networking in the future?
5. Machine Learning & Data Science
Misuse of machine learning.
Explain machine learning to a 10-year-old.
Interesting data science/programming project you've worked on.
Describe a dataset you worked with: what did you do, and how did you process it?
How do you use data to tell a story, and who is the audience for your story?
6. Industry Trends & AI
How AI will impact your field in the next 5 years.
What industry interests you and how AI will benefit it.
How AI impacts industries you’re interested in.
Discuss how AI will reshape industries in the future.
What global challenge would you address as a company?
7. Interesting Experiences & Perspectives
An unusual place you have been.
An interesting news article you recently read and what you learned from it.
A book that greatly influenced your career.
Your favorite sport, player, or coach – if you could choose to be the player or coach, why?
8. Operations Research
Why is operations research important?
As a customer, where have you noticed operational research could help?
Can you share an experience where you’ve seen operational research make a difference?
9. Global Challenges & Crisis
Global crisis or challenges you’ve encountered and how to address them.
How have you seen operational research used to address global challenges?