Comments from Student 1:
GW interviews applicants by invitation, which means that interviewing for the school is akin to making it to the "second round" of applicants. I was informed of this via email and asked to call the school and set up a time to interview. If I remember correctly, I was given the choice to either interview over the phone or come to campus, so I chose to make the two-hour drive to D.C.

The interviewer was part of the admissions office, but I don't remember the individual's name. We sat at a small conference table in an office and spoke for about 30 minutes. The questions were somewhat general in scope, such as "Why are you interested in GW?" and "How do you think you can benefit from an MBA?", but the interviewer had my application in front of her as we spoke, and she mixed in points from my resume and essays. I got the impression that she had spent a few minutes reviewing my resume and application, but had not read my essays or studied the application in any detail.

Unlike some other schools, GW did not give applicants the opportunity to sit in on a class. Applicants can take a tour of campus (which I did), but tours are handled by the admissions office and aren't specific to MBA or graduate students. My tour group consisted of a few accepted graduate applicants, but was mostly undergrad applicants and their parents. The tour guide was a grad student, but most of the tour didn't give me any insight into the school, and told me nothing about the MBA program or its culture. I wouldn't recommend it to other applicants unless they know nothing about GW.

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Comments from Student 2:
I interviewed with a first-year student in a conference room in the Admissions office. The first-year student had a pre-set list of questions and did not have access to my application prior to the interview. I'm pretty sure that she saw my resume ahead of time, but can't remember at the moment! One of the more interesting questions was: What is your biggest professional or personal accomplishment?