<p>Share your bad interview stories here, Ill start.
i told the interviewer of my frist choice that I liked the big classes, and she told me they had no big classes. I also constantly kept not answering her real questions and going off on wierd tangents and finally told her that I was an individual that liked my personal space.</p>
<p>lol whats wrong with you?</p>
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LOL! funny</p>
<p>HAHHA nice! i would so do that if i could get away with it... or if it was a school i couldnt care about but then why would i waste my time interviewing... unless it was to tape it for a show</p>
<p>well my friend for a Harvard interview said He liked HAVERFORD for its blah blah. He told me after he said that to the Harvard interviewer, it went downhill from there</p>
<p>how about everyone posts a list of what NOT to do/say during a college interview. I'd personally like to know... since my first one is in november (fast approaching..)</p>
<p>I have a friend who accidentally spilled ice water on the interviewers lap, and they had to reschedule. He was mortified obviously...</p>
<p>woah..i just had mine today and after hearing these stories i feel like it went pretty well lol</p>
<p>Taboo... talked about Harry Potter and Desperate Housewives for 45 minutes.</p>
<p>i think a big part of the interview is luck. if you get someone who's just like you, it'll go fine. but if you get a humanties teacher when your applying as a science major, well, you get the idea</p>
<p>When you have to listen to the interviewer talk for 30 minutes. And then at the end have him say that you would be a good fit for the school.</p>
<p>I thought my interview at UChicago went okay. I want to major in geography and political science and he kept pressing me on WHY geography WHY geography and the things I said in response were kind of stupid. I just wanted to be like "I like maps! Next question!" </p>
<p>Of course I thought of a million things I should've told him on the way home....</p>
<p>Oh and also I had a lot of questions and I have a kind of dominant personality in interviews... I'm a student journalist and after four years of doing interviews I kind of take over naturally... I think I may have come off a little strong. Blech.</p>
<p>Oh and then he asked me if I like math/science after we talked extensively about the humanities type courses and I do like math but I said I don't actively seek out math courses and I don't think that came across right to him. Also I don't really like science classes but I said that I wanted a school that made me take them because I know how vital they care. Both of those responses made me come across as quite... unmotivated, I guess, like I had to have someone coax me into taking courses instead of having the drive to take them on my own.</p>
<p>Ughhhh. :( Oh, well. Hopefully my essays will make up for all that.</p>
<p>In mine i kept pronouncing Bowdoin wrong even after I had heard the interviewer pronounce it a few times... I thought it was hillarious</p>