<p>Yay, interview tomorrow!</p>
<p>I’m pretty hopeful, excited, and a bit nervous, but as long as I keep my head I think it will go well lol.</p>
<p>"Basically, after the interview I only wanted to go to MIT more. "</p>
<p>Same for me.</p>
<p>Erm. </p>
<p>Well, I’m kinda having a minor difficulty in arranging the meeting. My EC wants it to be done at the school so I needed the school’s okay before going ahead and scheduling it. I scheduled it for tomorrow but I honestly don’t think that it’s going to happen because he seems not to reply on weekends.</p>
<p>I’ve considered calling him but I felt it would be somewhat awkward, I don’t know. Hopefully I can just get it scheduled for next Monday.</p>
<p>I had my interview!
It was fun. I may have rambled (hopefully not).
OMG and my interviewer brought his class RING!!!
I actually got to touch it - way way wayyyyy cool.
He asked me a couple questions but overall we just chat about our lives lol!!
Oh and he bought me a smoothie - my interviewer was DEFINTELY AWESOME! :)</p>
<p>I had my interview and I think it went fairly well… for anyone yet to interview: my interviewer forwarded me the sheet that MIT sends their EC’s with information to find out about and personalized it a little but he said to use it to prepare for the interview- i’m not sure if everyone has this luxury but if anyone would like me to email them this sheet just PM me with your email and I’ll send it to you from my gmail.com account</p>
<p>Had mine yesterday - went pretty well, I suppose I could have highlighted my passions more but I definitely didn’t bomb it. So I guess I kind of fall in the middle where the interview won’t make or break your application - it seems like most folks on here are like that. Overall feeling pretty good.</p>
<p>@Mikalye or mollie,</p>
<p>This is definitely a question for an actual interviewer. See, a main aspect of my life is playing Texas Hold’em. I play online, and go to higher-stakes live games all the time. I usually do really well, and it’s been working out quite nicely in place of an after-school job, since I don’t spend much money on myself anyway. But I’m straying. As I was saying, I usually play while doing homework everyday, as I find it easy to balance the two and it provides a distraction that my mind sometimes really needs in order to be productive. I’m not an addict by any means…there’ve been plenty of times I’ve stopped until homework cools down, or until college applications stop slapping me in the face everywhere I turn, like now. But I really have no idea whether or not I should bring this up in my interview. The opportunity will most certainly come up, since it really is what I do with the little free time I have. I’d like to know if that’s an immediate “keep this kid out”…what you would do, personally, and what you think interviewers would do in general. Any response would be wonderful. I’d hate for this to be a deciding factor against me.</p>
<p>Thanks!</p>
<p>When should one schedule an interview for early action, or is it kinda too late now?</p>
<p>Nah, the deadline is by October 20th…I haven’t scheduled mine yet. Just wondering, how did you guys request an interview when you emailed? Just like, “Hi Mr. so and so, I was wondering what time would be best for an interview etc. etc.” ?</p>
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<p>Pretty much. I mentioned my school so he knows where in the area I’m from and told him I whether I was applying EA or RD.</p>
<p>The interview is really chillaxed. Don’t sweat it. 
Just had it today. Think up some good questions, though.</p>
<p>I just had mine and wanted to say this.</p>
<p>It was awesome. He didn’t ask me questions to trap me. When I mentioned something about an interest in math, he asked me if I said that hoping it was something they wanted to hear, and I explained it. He talked about the atmosphere at MIT and I talked about what I liked to do, what I do in school, etc. I mentioned something about loving to have conversations and he said it was the first time he’s heard that. I don’t think it’ll make the application but overall I don’t think I did badly.</p>
<p>Of course, I didn’t have too many specific questions because someone who’s really interested will look at the admissions website and blogs (and it’s on there for anyone curious enough), so he told me more about campus life and the atmosphere itself.</p>
<p>So yeah, just have it if you haven’t scheduled it yet.</p>
<p>^Alright thanks guys, I’m gonna contact him today.</p>
<p>Lucky you. My interviewer started off by asking me about my GPA and SAT scores, and taking notes on his laptop, then I told him of one of my ideas and he looked at me like I was crazy, then I asked him why he liked MIT; he said “The prestige, it’s such a big name”. After 35 minutes, he said “ok, I think I have enough”.</p>
<p>Will this hurt me?</p>
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<p>Oh, wow. Mine was the opposite. He asked me if competition was cutthroat at my school and I said no; I said that I didn’t believe in that kind of competition myself anyway. He said that one big transition from high school to MIT is learning that collaboration is more important than competition.</p>
<p>He didn’t want me to discuss grades, test scores, or academic interests and accomplishments in great detail either. It’s funny how yours was the complete opposite.</p>
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<p>I’m not really qualified to say so. I’d feel pretty bad about it though, if it was like how you described. Didn’t you discuss anything else within those 35 minutes though?</p>
<p>I’m scheduling my interview right now; is there anything that I should do to prepare for this? What “interview-type” questions do they typically ask?</p>
<p>Also what do you guys usually ask your interviewers?</p>
<p>I just got home from mine, and I LOVED the guy. He was so cool. We pretty much kept talking about crazy stories of different situations we’ve gotten into with friends. (We obviously talked about science and math and all that academic stuff.) However, we had a blast just relaxing and keeping it real. I wore my earrings, and I wore a dress shirt, tie, jeans, and white Lacoste shoes (I wear them to school too).</p>
<p>Good luck ya’ll!</p>
<p>I had mine this past Monday, it was interesting to say the least.</p>
<p>I came in wearing my high school football hoodie, jeans, and my ugg boots (lol) and my interviewer was the complete stereotype of an MIT student: high waisted pants, huge glasses, plaid shirt, oxford shoes. I found him adorable, but I’m sure I wasn’t exactly what he pictured lol.</p>
<p>I feel like he placed far too much emphasis on my grades. At least half of our interview was him asking me to list every class I had taken since 9th grade and my grades in each one. Like, lol, MIT can just look at my transcript for that. This guy didn’t have to write it all down. He also seemed a little… I don’t know what the word is, taken aback? Annoyed? Amused? Whatever, by the fact that I am a cheerleader. You could tell he was laughing inside his head. He also told me that I intimidated him (HAHAHAHAHAH) and that if my school had a debate team, I would be the captain, because I’m very vocal about my opinions.</p>
<p>Lol I don’t even know if I can say if this was a good interview or not ahaha. It more makes me laugh when I look back on it.</p>
<p>So I have my interview for MIT EA tomorrow. I’m freaking out a little bit, but I’m strangely calm. The guy I’m interviewing with is a big time physics guy at the local university. He seems alright, but I’m not a physics person at all. I asked if I should bring anything such as an abstract of my research project or a CV, and I got no response. he still hasn’t responded to tell me the exact location- only the time… eek!</p>
<p>Should I email him? It seems like it might be a bit too much when there’s still time for him to email me…</p>
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<p>(Smiling broadly) This is exactly the way in which it is supposed to work.</p>