<p>I'm wearing either a casual skirt or dressyish pants and a blouse. I think if your interview includes team building things you should be more casual, since you may be doing weird group things. But if not, I still don't think it's that formal.</p>
<p>Okay, so dress is officially casual/comfortable. How casual exactly? I mean, I don't want to show up in black slacks now, but jeans still seem too casual. Ug, I'm probably worrying about this way too much.</p>
<p>I'm wearing in between jeans and dress slacks...I'd say khakis would be a good compromise.
Can you believe we are being interviewed this Saturday? I'm so excited!
And is anyone else kind of mildly creeped out be the fact that our virtual CC world will be colliding with our UWC real world when we all inevitably meet? There will be 16 of us...not too hard to figure out who's who, methinks.</p>
<p>Lol, I don't know about creeped out. I'm kind of excited to meet people I've been talking to online.</p>
<p>I'm freaking out about Saturday! I still don't think I've finalized my college preferences, and I need to do that. I've decided on what I'm wearing though, so that's something. I'm going with like brown twillish pants, so I think they should be okay.</p>
<p>I'm excited too, but it's going to be weirdish. Had we gone through this process ten years ago, we never would have "met" each other beforehand...it's just interesting.<br>
I'm going with the same kind of pants, too. I know they won't care what we look like or what we wear, but for some reason it still matters to me.</p>
<p>Oh, and my preferences have COMPLETELY changed.
Before Costa Rica was 1, US 2, Wales 3, Canada 4.
Now I've definitely settled on US 1, Wales 2, and that's it.</p>
<p>My number one was Norway. It is now Canada. My last pick would be South East Asia, but other than that I really don't know. I feel like they're going to ask why such and such school is ranked how it is and I'm not going to know what to say. So nervous!</p>
<p>Oh and I know what you mean about them not caring what we wear. A part of me still feels like they care though, and I keep thinking about the fact that it is an interview and I should still look decent. It's troubling, lol.</p>
<p>I highly doubt they'll judge you based on what you're wearing, but there's undeniably a subconscious judgment happening. Dressing too formally tells them that you can't read directions while dressing too casually demonstrates a lack of commitment.</p>
<p>I doubt they'll go into that much detail with the preference list, though I kind of wish they would since I know a lot about the ones I'm interested in. But I don't think we need to have each individual one ranked, so just tell them the top 3-5 so you don't have to memorize acts about each one. And I don't think they expect you do know everything about each school.</p>
<p>What kind of questions do you think they'll ask? And what activities do you think we'll be doing/discussing?</p>
<p>bump!
three days, eeeek!</p>
<p>I couldn’t make it to UWC due to many reasons. But i want my young bro to do it. So, when are we supposed to get started…i mean how to start…</p>
<p>and besides one of my friend got into UWC with 70% scholarship…he eventually chose Costarica…was it because UWC costarica is less expensive?</p>
<p>It’s difficult to say how your brother should get started or why your friend got a 70% scholarships to Costa Rica. It all depends on how things work with the National Committee in your country. In the U.S. everybody accepted to the program gets a full paid scholarship.</p>
<p>In other news- interview tomorrow and I’m sick! Not like vomiting sick, thank goodness, but I have such a bad cold right now. I’m going to be so out of it tomorrow.</p>
<p>Oh no! I hope you feel better :-/
I’m SO EXCITED for tomorrow. I feel like it’s my birthday or something, haha. I can’t wait to meet you guys and learn more about UWC!</p>
<p>Good luck!</p>
<p>I hope I feel better too, lol! I’m so nervous about tomorrow! I mean I’m excited, but terrified! The fact that they had to make some last minute adjustments makes me even more nervous. How am I going to find the upper part of campus? lol We’re leaving super early in the morning, so I guess we’ll have plenty of time to find where I’m supposed to be going.</p>
<p>Was anyone else interviewed by Tim yesterday? If so, what kind of vibe did you get from him at the end of the interview?</p>
<p>Yeah, Tim, Victoria, and Amy interviewed me. I felt like Amy really was sympathetic to what I said, Victoria had really negative body language whenever I spoke, and Tim wasn’t really either. There was a lot of confusion with my application that Victoria was almost hostile about. I only ranked my first five preferences because all the others were equal, and she thought that meant I wouldn’t go to UWC if I had to go to one of the others. Then I said I was a lacto-ovo vegetarian, which means I DO eat dairy and eggs, but they thought that meant I was a lactose-intolerant vegan?! It was really weird. But yeah. As far as the vibe I got from Tim, he was too chill for me to evaluate how he felt about me. Why, how did you feel about him?</p>
<p>P.S. I wonder why the one person didn’t show up…</p>
<p>Tim, Victoria, and girl from Lithuania whose name escapes me interviewed me. I’m not too worried about the Lithuanian alum because she seemed quiet in general, so I couldn’t really get a read on her- at least I didn’t get a negative one. I got a really good vibe from Victoria. I’d talked to her briefly that morning, so maybe that helped, but I think I clicked with her which was great, so I think she liked me. The thing with Tim is, I couldn’t really figure him out. Part of me thinks he liked me, part of me thinks he thought I was just full of it. Like he wanted to laugh at me or something, which was not good. I really, really wish I had been interviewed by Andrew or the girl who had
gone to Li Po Chun whose name also escapes me because I’d talked to both of them a lot that day, and I really hit it off with them.</p>
<p>I don’t know. I’m prepping myself for disappointment based on Tim’s lukewarm-ness and the afternoon activities which I thought I was way too quiet in. By the way, did Tim kind of give a speech about how they could only give fifty people a spot even though we were all outstanding etc…?</p>
<p>Oh, and I can’t believe that someone wouldn’t show up. Maybe he got really sick. That’s all I can think of.</p>
<p>I agree with both of the above. I <em>thought</em> I was pretty good at reading people but was kind of clueless as to what they were thinking. I hope the alumni have a significant influence in their decision making, though. </p>
<p>Oh well… only three-ish (?) weeks to wait. I’ve already come to terms with my being rejected :).</p>