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Situational questions test reasoning under hypothetical pressure. Interviewers want to see the constraints you name, the trade-offs you choose, and the assumptions you flag.

Situational · Negative Signal

You're a program director at a regional university. Your master's program's enrollment is down 30% over three admissions cycles — inquiries are flat but yield is collapsing — and the provost wants a viability plan in a month or the program goes on the sunset list. What do you do?

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Flat inquiries with collapsing yield means we're losing people between admission and enrollment, so I'd diagnose there first: personally call the last two cycles of admitted non-ma…

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