<p>I would have LOVED to have your JHU interview! The guy seems like such a chill person, I thrive in that sort of environment…
Would’ve had a stick up my butt during the Columbia one, though. I wonder if they give interviewers some sort of psychiatric test before sending them out on the field, or if they just take anyone who’s willing, no matter if they’re a complete tool or not.</p>
<p>@alisyn - He was actually pretty cool. He was class of '08 and cursed a couple times. It was also nice to hear a recent perspective of the college.</p>
<p>This thread is amazing - props to the creator!
anyways, My Georgetown interview was truly terrible. Georgetown: my interviewer, a 23 year old med student(guy), was so gorgeous I couldnt keep my mind on task. i swear 95% of the interview went like:</p>
<p>Interviewer: “So what do you do in school? any leadership roles, clubs, honor societies…?”
Me: <em>staring</em>…Erm, uh oh, oh yeah I’m the president of the um <em>blush</em><em>look away</em> the erm… uh… oh yeah! the National Honor Society at my school. and I’m also part of the umm… the SGA…and
Interviewer: SGA? Whats that?
Me: oh um <em>stare</em><em>grin</em> …err I don’t know… wait oh actually I do, its the Student Government Association! <em>sheepish grin</em></p>
<p>hahaha I wanted to die right then and there 
I probably looked like the biggest idiot… haha but then again he probably gets that a lot.</p>
<p>Princeton interview:
Him: do you have any questions?
Me: what did u get out of your Princeton education?
Him: well, I really began to appreciate going to Princeton when I was on vacation in Vermont. I was on the stair lift at a skiing resort with a couple of smoking hot babes. They seemed to be repulsed by me, but when they asked where I went to college and I said Princeton, they were instantly interested and we all ended up hanging out and having a fun time together if you know what I mean. Moral of the story, if you go to princeton you’re gonna get laid.
Me: <em>nervous laughter</em></p>
<p>^ Ha ha. This thread would make a great book.</p>
<p>I had a Brown interview and the man asked me about a Mother Theresa quote on the wall that said that three most important things in life are kindness, kindness, and kindness. I had no clue what to say so I stated “well Mother Theresa was an idealist”. Then started to ramble how I always try to be kind, but I am not perfect. That I have friends who point out when I am not kind, and those are my greatest friends cause they tell me my flaws not just my accomplishments. Then he stated “well you have to be sure they aren’t doing that to spite you”. And I replied, “well I do trust them”. Haha such a strange conversation.</p>
<p>Oh and my Harvard INterview was mutually mortifying. </p>
<p>Interviewer: So Why Harvard?
Me: <em>blanks</em>…um… …um… “My PARENTS REALLY LIKE HARVARD!” (I died inside… that was SO not what i was gonna say)
Interviewer: <em>Stares</em> <em>scribbles down something</em>
Me: um…can…can you scratch that? I was…uh…kidding? <em>nervous laugh</em>
Interviewer: …<em>tsktsk</em>
Me: D’:</p>
<p>i got deferred.</p>
<p>^ Omigosh. That must have been mortifying. It’s akin to someone asking: “Does this outfit make me look fat?” and you blurt out “yes”</p>
<p>
I disagree totally. I would think that would be a natural question for an interview. What makes you want to attend [fill in the blank] University?</p>
<p>I took T26E4’s post to mean that the poster was asked a question that has a right answer (anything but my parents like it…it’s pretty…etc) and a wrong answer (answering with any of the examples in the previous parentheses). And the “does this make me look fat” question is nerve wracking just like “why X” is, and due to nervousness you just blurt out an answer.</p>
<p>^I believe “Freudian Slip” is the most appropriate term here.</p>
<p>Yes. Couldn’t quite put my finger on it.</p>
<p>My friend who is an alumni interviewer for Brown hates it when the kids she interviews say they want to go to Brown because their friends will be going there. She feels that’s very presumptuous for them to think that any of them will get in & a bad reason to choose any U. She notices kids from one HS in particular are most likely to give that response. </p>
<p>I think it IS a good question to be prepared to answer in any interview–job or U, “Why are you interested in us?”</p>
<p>After my Brown interview, the interviewer tells me how he wished he had told me from the beginning that it was only an informal conversation so that I wouldn’t be as nervous. That meant he thought I was nervous. That means I rambled and did poorly. Which is true, since I couldn’t even understand myself at times. Bombed it 
Been reading articles on how to handle college rejections the whole night yesterday haha</p>
<p>I’ve only had two college interviews so far, but my UChicago one was definitely awkward as hell.
So it’s my first interview, and I don’t really know the basics, like where interviews are normally held and what kinds of questions are asked. My interviewer emails me and asks me to come to his house. When I tell my friends, they inform me that is “strange” and I should make it a public place. Not only that, I feel like there will be extra pressure if I’m at the guys house, since it is his own personal space and all.
So I email him back, asking him if he wants to do it at a library because it’s closer to where I live (which is true).
He emails me back saying something along the lines of, “The library is too loud. My wife and daughter will be at home, if that makes you more reassured. If you’re uncomfortable with having the interview at my house, we can always meet somewhere else, like a coffee shop. The main thing is that you’re relaxed.”
So he saw RIGHT THROUGH ME.</p>
<p>Not only that, I curiously searched him up online–apparently, he’s this extremely dedicated research scientist who has won major awards and written over 50+ research papers…</p>
<p>But wait, I have more awkward moments!
The guy (he’s about 50 years old, fyi) starts off with the dreaded “Tell me about yourself.” I manage to mumble and stutter my way through with talking about school and extracurricular activities…so not original.
Then, when he asks me about volunteering, I told him I worked at a retirement community over the summer. I have no idea why I said this, I guess I wanted to be truthful, but I told him how I didn’t find much satisfaction in that job because I felt like I wasn’t really actually making a difference. So my interviewer goes, “Well, I mean it’s good to help out senior citizens…” </p>
<p>The worst thing to happen was when I was talking about my school’s literary arts magazine, called the Colophon. He asked me what that meant and I go “Uh…I think it’s a punctuation mark…or something. You know. The ones that look like a period but aren’t a period.”
Him: I’ve never heard that before
Me: Well I guess it’s not well known…
I went home and looked it up–Colophon actually doesn’t mean anything, I was thinking of the apostrophe. -______-</p>
<p>Asking not to meet at an interviewer’s house is not strange! You did the right thing. I would just refuse to interview if s/he had a problem with that. Doesn’t mean anything is wrong, there was nothing to ‘see through’. Interviewers shouldn’t be allowed to do that…</p>
<h1>thatawkwardmomentwhen at your Harvard interview you nervously blank on the name of the website you designed</h1>
<p>^Yeah, some colleges explicitly tell their alumni interviewers not to have them at their house.</p>
<p>^ that was my initial reaction when my Y interviewer asked me to come to his house for the interview but then I saw on this thread that it happens a lot so Im cool with it :)</p>
<p>Had one interview at the school, one at the office of the guy (a doctor), one at a guy’s house, and another this weekend will be at a guy’s house. Personally, I haven’t felt awkward and unnerved at the home setting. I actually found that one to be the most relaxed, and I have a feeling the one coming up will be too. So far none have been in public, but I think I’d have more of a problem with it being in public, because I’d A) be distracted by everything going on around us and B) be unnaturally aware of how other people are perceiving the meeting and act oddly.</p>