<p>Am I supposed to give the interviewer a copy of my application, or a resume, or nothing? I'm not really sure. I've heard different stories. What do you guys think?</p>
<p>I alum interview for an Ivy and my instructions are not to ask you about grades and SAT scores! So it is weird when the applicant comes and has their little resume all printed out with same. I certainly don’t read anything negative into it though. It’s okay to ask the interviewer if you need to bring anything but if they haven’t asked it shouldn’t be necessary, and if they ask, you can email it to them when you get home with a note thanking them for their time.</p>
<p>Most people I think brought a resume.. I did and most others did I know off this forum because they said they did I suppose..</p>
<p>I also do alumni interviews, and I’m happy when the student brings a resume or list of activities. It’s easier (and more accurate) to have a student-generated reference for specific EC’s when writing the meeting report. </p>
<p>You don’t need to include grades or test scores – as Muffy said, alumni interviewers aren’t expected to know about those.</p>
<p>I just saw that the OP is applying to the Hotel School. Those interviews are different from the alumni meetings offered by the other schools (except AAP). Here’s a link to the Hotel School interview page:
<a href=“http://www.hotelschool.cornell.edu/admissions/ugrad/interview/[/url]”>http://www.hotelschool.cornell.edu/admissions/ugrad/interview/</a></p>
<p>It says you should bring a resume.</p>
<p>my entire interview was outlined by my resume. I can’t imagine how the interview would’ve gone without it</p>
<p>When I did my (ILR) interview, I brought my resume along and my interviewer would not accept it.</p>
<p>for my hotel interview, i just asked the interviewer if he wanted to see my resume. he took and said he’d keep it for reference. then, most of the interview was like…a hangout ROFL. we ate dinner at the cheesecake factory and talked about random stuff that related to SHA</p>
<p>True. My interview was well over two hours (I swear, it was ridiculous and we left only because it was getting really dark and cold outside Starbucks lol), but never did he look at my resume. Our talk last year ranged from the Airbus A380 to the artist Edward Hopper. Of course, we did talk a bit about ILR, but he was really informal and I actually found the interview rather fun and it went by fast. This might depend from school to school within Cornell.</p>
<p>Of course, reading the instructions for the interview is the most important thing, so do whatever they say! My school does not put a lot of weight on the content of the alum interview; if they do it is to see if anything comes out about the applicant that isn’t on paper. So we mostly talk about their activities and interests, not their numbers, and hopefully I am informative about the college. I interviewed an applicant who I could tell had typically impressive stats, but I was very impressed by how mature and articulate he was; he was very polite, looked me in the eye, dressed appropriately. At the end of the interview, he had to wait for his dad to pick him up and he explained that he wasn’t yet 16 so he couldn’t drive (he was a senior) which really amazed me. So if the admission office was wondering if he’d fit in because of his age, I hope my interview helped (he got in). But some schools may want grades and gpa discussed.</p>