<p>^LOL!!! How did the actual interview go after that happened?!</p>
<p>One of my interviewers lived in a city 2 hours away, so the only way I could conduct an interview was via phone. So we scheduled a day and time to call each other.</p>
<p>Day 1: When it was time, I decided to call him. He didn’t answer. So I called 3 more times, and still no answer. I decided to wait an hour so he could call me back, but he didn’t. That’s when I realized I called the wrong number…I had to email him to apologize and reschedule the next day.</p>
<p>Day 2: This time, my interviewer called me. The only problem: I was eating dinner. So I missed that call, and I tried calling him back. It dawned to me that the number he provided was his office number, and the time we planned for the interview was at the very end of his shift. I email him again, and we planned for another make-up. Unfortunately, I had an INCREDIBLY busy schedule that week, so I had to reject at least 4 APPOINTMENTS he suggested. </p>
<p>When that hellish week was finally over, he basically emailed me saying, “Hey, let’s just…start this all over and schedule one last time at this date and time.” FINALLY we got to talk on the phone. I kept beating myself up for causing so much hassle for the poor guy.</p>
<p>ZombieDante: It went really well, actually! We laughed about the mix-up and moved on.</p>
<p>I had my Princeton interview for early action a while ago, and it was really awkward because I didn’t have my belt on and my interviewer and I reached the starbucks parking lot at the same time so she got to see me putting my belt on and tucking in my shirt while softly cursing to myself.</p>
<p>I awkwardly followed about 4 steps behind her until we got into the Starbucks and she turned around and said hi to me, then we went outside. I tried to find a table devoid of smokers, telling her I was pretty sensitive to secondhand smoke, and right when we sit down she points out that there’s a man smoking about 8 feet behind me that I failed to see…</p>
<p>During the whole interview I’m shivering my butt off and my hand is literally shaking as I tell her about my extracurricular experiences, then to top it off a fire truck roars by and I guess she was kind of a shaky woman because she got really riled/surprised. We opted into going into Corner Bakery and I told her I had to buy a brownie as courtesy calls, then we finished up the interview.</p>
<p>Overall it was pretty awkward but I thought it went well; just some funny stories to share with CC!</p>
<p>My Brown interview was at Starbucks. I got there early and brought my laptop so I could do some work before it started, but when I got there my interviewer (an older man) was already sitting there outside waiting for me. I apologized for the laptop. Then he asked if I wanted coffee. I have one of those tumbler things Starbucks promotes that let you get a month of free coffee. I was completely flustered so I was like, “Well I have this thing and it’s free so…” and then I dumped my laptop and purse on his table and went in to get my coffee, realizing I sounded like a cheapskate or something. THEN I saw him coming inside, this old man, struggling to carry my purse and computer along with his own things. Kind of awkward and embarrassing.</p>
<p>But the interview after that was amazing.</p>
<p>Just finished my Columbia interview an hour ago… All my interviews go so fast for some reason, around thirty minutes. I think I speak too quickly cause I’m so nervous. I don’t think I sound that interesting either. Then I hear from my friend about his TWO HOUR interview…</p>
<p>I can’t believe some people have interviews that last so long. My Brown interview went well and I felt like it could have gone longer, but I think he had to be somewhere because he ended it after exactly an hour.</p>
<p>I think my worst interview would have to be Chicago. My interviewer was very young and inexperienced. I got the feeling that she saw her job as promoting the school, not really learning about me. Every time I started to talk about my interests, she would cut me off and say, “Well UChicago is the perfect place for that because…” It was pretty awkward.</p>
<p>Any tips for a complete introvert? I’m a junior in high school and I am usually awkward in almost every social situation… wat do D:</p>
<p>^^
Get some good sleep if you can, even a nap and BE comfortable. I know for me I am most uncomfortable when I am afraid of talking for fear of other people not liking me. While it is probably important that the interviewer likes you, don’t worry about it. If you are a good fit for the college, you will probably match up some interests with your interviewer. If not, don’t worry about it. A glowing interview is good, but a mediocre one is not detrimental. Interviews are acknowledged to serve the purpose of weeding out applicants who have not done real research (reasons for applying: prestige, parents made me, etc.), people who are probably lying on their apps, or other big errors like saying something racist.</p>
<p>But I can see myself making almost all of the mistakes in this thread in the first 30 minutes of my interview :/</p>
<p>I asked to postpone my interview due to forecasted snow the morning of. The interviewer couldn’t make it on the make-up days I suggested, so I still went anyway. When I got there, there was barely any snow falling and no accumulation…he greeted with me with “hello! What nice weather we’re having!”</p>
<p>Awkward much?</p>
<p>Not my story, but I thought it fits: <a href=“http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/college-admissions/1458397-car-crash-interviewer.html[/url]”>http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/college-admissions/1458397-car-crash-interviewer.html</a></p>
<p>I had my interviewer randomly say “well that was awkward” in the middle of the interview. Idk why…kinda weird/awkward.</p>
<p>Interviewer: What are you looking forward to the most about college?
Me: Spending money
Interviewer:…
Me: I mean. Saving money. No, I mean planning what to do with my money…<em>continues rambling on about money</em>
Interviewer: Okay…</p>
<p>Hmm does anyone know if it’s awkward to call the interviewer that you never talked with and ask when to meet up? He/ she sent me an email 2 days ago and the interview is due by Friday. How long does an interviewer take to respond to an email?</p>
<p>I had my Penn interview last weekend, and there were plenty of awkward moments…</p>
<p>I got there pretty early, and I had seen a picture of my interviewer before so I was confident I would be able to recognize him. But when he came in, he was wearing sunglasses, so I stared him down for a little while until he said my name… good thing it really was him!</p>
<p>Later on, he asked me why I wanted to go to the school, and I promptly forgot my prepared, researched answer, so rambled for a bit about the camp I had there, and how great the professors were, and I love Philly… and he looked at me and said, “You know, a lot of schools have the kinds of things you’re looking for…”</p>
<p>The most awkward moment, I think, was when I was telling him about an independent research project I did for a science competition… I did some an education experiment and mentioned that I wanted to recreate the testing environment, so the students didn’t know it was an experiment, and he was like, “Did you feel like that was morally wrong?” and uh yeah basically that’s kind of illegal to test people without their consent so cool…</p>
<p>but he ended the interview saying very nice things so I guess awkward moments don’t ruin the entire interview (:</p>
<p>My Vandy interview went pretty well until she asked me if I had seen any movies recently.
You would think it would be a simple answer but things got awkward fast. I answered that I had watched Django. She then asked me how it was, in which I responded that it was really good and that I pretty much watch anything with Leonardo Dicaprio…she responded “It’s funny you say that. There was a girl on my dorm room floor who was obsessed with Leonardo Dicaprio, so when Titanic came out she dragged the whole floor to the theaters fifteen times. It was awful! I really don’t like him.”</p>
<p>Not only is he my favorite actor, but I love Titanic. :/</p>
<p>I was sitting in a coffee shop right on schedule, waiting for my interviewer to show up. I didn’t have the prescience to send a photo of myself beforehand like I did for my other interviewers, so I sat there, sipping my (sadly caffeinated) cookies and cream frapp, waiting for her to come. In the meantime, I was looking around, seeing when she was going to walk in.</p>
<p>A minute passed.
Then five.
Then ten.</p>
<p>Whenever I looked around the room, this lady sitting near the door caught my eye and we kept awkwardly catching each other’s gazes as we looked around. I thought she was waiting for her date or something. Finally, at 15 past, my phone rang, and I saw that it was my interviewer. I looked over towards her again and saw that she was on the phone as well. I made some sort of weird hand gesture (“you lookin’ for me?”) and then hung up and walked over to sit down at her table.</p>
<p>Our conversation opened with, “Well, that was awkward…”</p>
<p>We were sitting at Starbucks for the interview. I ordered a latte just so I have something to drink while at Starbucks. While the interviewer was talking to me, I took a sip and then when I put the cup down the latte just splash out of the cup and onto me. It wasn’t that bad of a spill but still. The interviewer laughed and said it’s okay while I tried to wipe off the latte on me.): It was pretty embarrassing and awkward.</p>
<p>This was for Cornell.</p>
<p>My brown interviewer randomly asked me what time the state of the union speech was because I said I want to major in political science. I didn’t even know it was on that night, but I made up a random time and she believed me. Lmaoo</p>