<p>This thread is hilarious…</p>
<p>This thread makes me laugh…I know what NOT to say at my interviews now!</p>
<p>Okay, not really funny, but to bump the thread!</p>
<p>When I was leaving my interview at a Starbucks (luckily my interviewer sort of left already, so I hope he didn’t notice) two guys came literally running towards me and started this tirade about how I shouldn’t go to the US for college, but come to Cambridge (the UK one, not near-Boston town), and they started rewind my complete interview, whilst turning everything in favor of Cambridge (Soooo, you want a smaller college town? Cambridge! So you want to major in economics? CAMBRIDGE!), so they sort of eavesdropped on my complete interview and remembered everything. And then, a waitress comes walking towards me, and ALSO buts in and starts defending the US (WITH MY ARGUMENTS FROM MY INTERVIEW!). What is it with people eavesdropping?!</p>
<p>When I first met my interviewer, I though he could be a very nice man. Even if he did have teeth like Lord Voldemort.</p>
<p>And then he opened his mouth.</p>
<p>The first thing he said was, “You know, my parents live very close to you. Perhaps you’ve seen them somewhere.”</p>
<p>Naturally, as I wanted to make a good impression, I took this opportunity to eagerly ask, “Where?”</p>
<p>That’s when he chose to deadpan with “The cemetery. I trust you’ve driven by it before?”</p>
<p>…That was really awkward. And then he went on and on about how he hated Harvard. None of my other interviews approached the awfulness of this one.</p>
<p>Ksarmand,
I think you should let Harvard know about your interview. I’m saying this as a former Harvard alum interviewer. Someone who hates Harvard shouldn’t be interviewing for it. Letting Harvard know about that interviewer won’t count against you when your application is considered.</p>
<p>Haha, hilarious thread.</p>
<p>Okay, mine. He=Interviewer, me=me</p>
<p>Middlebury interview</p>
<p>He: So you visited Yale and Middlebury, huh? What’d you think of Yale?
Me : Oh well, Yale was okay, kinda dingy and gloomy
He : <em>laughs</em>
Me: But their buildings were beautiful.
blah blah blah
Me : So did you stop after your undergrad degree?
He : No, actually I went to Yale for grad school. </p>
<p>■■■</p>
<p>Me : <em>likes Obama, complete liberal</em>
He: Oh but the healthcare plan… big government
Me : But doesn’t that increase competition with the private sector which has monopolised the insurance sector for far too long? Isn’t Obama just trying to do whats best?
He: Government getting involved in people’s lives… <em>argues</em></p>
<p>Never get into a political debate. Thank god I kept it civil and pretty much casual.</p>
<p>bump this thread</p>
<p>I was in a woman’s house for a UPenn interview;
She asked, “If you could have dinner with one person from history, who would it be?” I let out a big uhhhmmmm and start to panic… I looked around and saw a painting of Louis XIV, and said “hhhmmmm Louis XIV.” she says, “is that just because he’s on the wall behind me?..” Ehhmm Noooo…</p>
<p>^ Sorry but that made me LOL. Literally. I wonder how many interviewees said that. :P</p>
<p>ksarmand: LOL OWNED. I wanna meet that guy.</p>
<p>Forkingjamie: LOLLLLLLLLL gg.</p>
<p>This thread made my day! I hope my interviews don’t end up awkward, but if they do, I’ll be sure to contribute :]</p>
<p>DiamantNoir: I almost choked on my dinner. That’s intense!</p>
<p>Warning: This story is slightly inappropriate. </p>
<p>I’m a girl (obviously) and my interviewer was a middle aged man who happened the husband of my childhood pediatrician. One of my friends who knows him (he’s her math teacher) warned me how weird he is, but said that he’s harmless and very nice.</p>
<p>We sat down at Starbucks and within the first minute he says “I think the band really symbolizes the spirit of ___ University.” So, of course, I responded “Why is that?”</p>
<p>He then proceeded to explain how at every game, the band finds a way to make the formation of male genitalia. He took our two coffee cups and a pen to make a diagram, and told me (and I quote) “Then at the end two white tubas run down the center (of the you-know-what) and out the front- it’s hilarious!” If you can’t figure out what that refers to I am NOT writing it on here.</p>
<p>Bear in mind this is all within the first 2 minutes of our interview. I laughed politely, felt really awkward and uncomfortable, took my coffee back, and changed the subject. The rest of the interview went great, except for at one point where he asked me if I had ever even had a beer before in a way that suggested that if I answered “No” he would disapprove. He even said that kids who have never had anything to drink wouldn’t be able to adapt to university life at all. </p>
<p>Most epic interview ever? Hands down. (I am aware I could probably report him for this, but he was really nice and I don’t think he meant to make me uncomfortable… but at the same time what the HECK was he thinking???)</p>
<p>^strange little man lol</p>
<p>@ altruition:</p>
<p>And when he walked out of the office building, he totally ignored me even after I shouted, “Goodnight!” It was raining outside, and he didn’t even offer to let me back in. Thankfully, someone with a soul came a few minutes later and let me in to wait for my dad. </p>
<p>But his cardigan was lovely, really.</p>
<p>Something unfortunate happened to me during an interview…not a college admissions one, but for admission to a college program. I was interviewing for a paramedic program. For some reason, whenever I get really angry, or really nervous, even if I don’t outwardly show it, I get all…splotchy. As in you can watch a red, blotchy rash climb up my neck, across my face, etc. And I have super white skin. I finally get done with the interview, and go to the bathroom, and in the mirror I see that I look like some sort of improperly boiled crustacean. </p>
<p>-sigh-</p>
<p>At least I got in.</p>
<p>loving this thread.
i pretty much screwed up my yale interview when the interviewer asked me about the texts we were studying for English. it was the Wasp Factory so i started going on about how i didn’t like it because it involved crass themes. then, stupidly, i proceeded to describe these ‘crass’ things which involved maggots consuming baby brains and mutilation of genitalia.
to my horror, the interviewer kind of nodded, mumbled “aha, mutilation” and took notes. </p>
<p>then i spent the rest of my interview thinking “great, within the first 10 mins of my interview i’d said ‘mutilation’ and ‘genitalia’.” </p>
<p>though my cambridge interview actually beats that. i was applying for English and for some reason, i spent my whole interview speaking in a faux-Southern accent. i’m Asian.
probably didn’t help matters that i also said: “I’m sorry, i don’t really like Jane Austen…”. still in a fake Texan accent.</p>
<p>“I am aware I could probably report him for this, but he was really nice and I don’t think he meant to make me uncomfortable… but at the same time what the HECK was he thinking???)”</p>
<p>Please report him particularly his description of the band. Reporting won’t hurt your chances. Reporting will help keep that man from interviewing other people. Just because he was nice doesn’t mean he should be allowed to interview. Frankly, I don’t think he was nice at all. I think he deliberately said inappropriate things at the beginning of the interview, and I think his alma mater needs to know about it. No college wants to be represented by that kind of alum.</p>
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<p>What a creep. If I knew an interviewer had said this to my daughter, I’d gotten in his face. Daresay, I would have made a scene there at the cafe.</p>