So I have an interview for Northwestern scheduled for this Saturday at 1:00 pm. However, I’d really like to attend the anti-Trump protest in NYC that is happening at the same time. How bad does it look if I cancel the interview? Is there any way I can change the time of my interview? Because I’m not in direct contact with my interviewer, I can’t really negotiate the time or anything like that. I don’t really know what to do. Advice?
@julia1999 - This is really a common sense & life-style reality question IMHO, not a college question…
- Talk to parents, ask for their opinions & ideas. They know you best.
- Contact NU or where you originally scheduled interview, ask to cancel or reschedule. Ask for confirmation from interviewer
- If you do not hear back from interviewer confirming cancel or reschedule, then you are committed to go to interview.
This is real. This is not about what you would really like to do.
- There will be plenty of time in the next 2-3 years to protest Trump. But do plan to get that in before his potential impeachment, or Nixon-like resignation ahead of the hangman.
- Talk to parents.
- Good Luck!
If this interviewer is an alum who is volunteering his/her time, including giving up a whole bunch of things he/she could be doing in order to assist NU with the task of meeting applicants and answering their questions - then short of a legitimate emergency (sudden illness, death in family, called out of town, severe weather, etc.), requesting a “reschedule” shows a lack of respect for their time and efforts and is just plain rude. I wouldn’t advise it. However, if you choose to cancel outright, you will open up a slot for someone else who seriously needs it, but couldn’t get in. So if your priorities are to attend something else that day, you should probably cancel.
Instead of wasting your time protesting an inevitable event, take the interview lol