<p>Hi, I was just wondering if I should wear a shirt and tie to the Columbia Interivew. It's at a Starbucks, so I was thinking just khakis and a nice polo shirt? Any ideas, what did everyone wear to their interviews?</p>
<p>You can't go wrong with khakis and a polo shirt or oxford. Good luck.</p>
<p>Dress for the location. For Starbucks, wear khakis and a decent long-sleeved shirt (short-sleeved polo may be a little informal).</p>
<p>If you're interviewing in someone's office, you should probably dress more formally.</p>
<p>and girls?</p>
<p>What about a interview in a library?</p>
<p>For girls, wear whatever the girl-equivalent of what a guy would wear in that situation. How would you dress if you're going out to dinner with your grandparents or something like that?</p>
<p>An interview at a library? You gotta whisper? That's a first.</p>
<p>Haha, whisper ? What would be appropriate to wear ?</p>
<p>i wore black dress pants and a pretty black top with ballerina-esque shoes. i was going to wear a suit jacket but i decided that it would be too much. so just something formal that you feel pretty in.</p>
<p>how long were most of your interviews? mine was just 40 minutes long but ive heard of some people having ones that lasted for two hours.</p>
<p>Two Hours?? Wow... I wore khakis and a button down white shirt and a tie. Mine lasted about 40-50minutes long. Although, he said the interview was over, and if I had any questions. From there, it lasted another 15minutes or so, for a total of about 40-50minutes.</p>
<p>yea, after i heard that i was sort of dismayed. but, i don't think that's average.</p>
<p>My actual interview lasted somewhere in the range of 10-15 minutes. From there it was "do you have any questions?" I had a whole bunch, so that was another 30 minutes. Basically...the interview was him doing most of the talking.</p>
<p>"The interview" includes the questions part. Don't for a second think that you are not being evaluated on the questions that you ask.</p>
<p>Most interviews are 30-60 mins, with something like 45 mins being the norm. Columbia tells interviewers to keep them under an hour.</p>
<p>This might be a silly concern...</p>
<p>But would an interviewer ever ask me what other colleges I am applying to?</p>
<p>The reason I ask is because I applied ED to another school...and I don't really want anyone at Columbia to know about that...</p>
<p>I mean...if they asked me....I wouldn't lie about it..</p>
<p>But yea...would anyone ever ask me something like that?</p>
<p>I doubt that they'd ask you that. And anyway, why would you go as far as saying which college you are applying ED to even if someone asked what other colleges you were looking at?</p>
<p>This shouldn't be a surprise, but if you applied ED to two schools, and get into both, you're screwed.</p>
<p>I always ask 1) what other colleges are you applying to (for both ED and RD) and 2) for RD, why you didn't apply to Columbia and where you applied. You should be prepared for it, as it is fairly common. When I did my college interviews, people asked me this.</p>
<p>Lots of good information comes out of those questions. If someone tells me how Columbia is his first choice and he's wanted to go to Columbia since birth, and then tells me he applied ED to some other school, there's a problem.</p>
<p>I think he is saying that he applied to Columbia RD and another school ED, which is why he doesn't want Columbia to know that he didn't apply ED there.</p>
<p>Huh? The mere fact that he applied RD to Columbia means that they know he didn't apply ED there.</p>
<p>Ignore my comment, ha, I don't know what I meant.</p>
<p>You generally don't know what you mean. Seriously. Why on earth do you think you have any business making statements like "I doubt that they'd ask you that" when you have absolutely no basis for doing so?</p>