<p>At the end of my interview, the interviewer asked me if there was anything I wanted the committee to know, anything interesting about me. And I was like, uh... no.
So he probably thought I was the most boring person ever. He did most of the talking. I asked some good questions, gave some dumb answers, and just sat there trying to look intelligent for the entire interview.
But I wrote a nice thank-you note. Advice to people who just got interviewed: WRITE A THANK-YOU NOTE. Interviewers do appreciate them.</p>
<p>I went to a private school in NYC, so the representatives from all of the top schools stop by every fall to speak with the seniors. These are not formal interviews, but often the representative is the reader for the NYC private schools and (s)he takes down names - so the point is to leave a good impression of yourself. </p>
<p>Of course, the Director of Undergraduate Admissions at Ivy League X came to visit the Friday before Homecoming. I played for a varsity team, and it is tradition for each team to dress up silly so to hype up the athletic events that take place on Saturday. I met this representative dressed like Tom Cruise in Risky Business (ironically, at practice the day before, it was my suggestion for us to dress up like this): one of my father's large white oxford shirts, black sunglasses, and tube socks. Yes, I had on short black bike shorts, but the shirt was so big that the admissions rep probably would not have been able to tell. </p>
<p>When I first entered the room to meet with the rep, I was so embarrassed. I explained my garb and assured the rep that this is not my standard style of dress. I tried to play up my school spirit and my interest in community and related these qualities to Ivy League X. Who knows, (s)he probably thought I was insane. My college counselor thought it was a cute way of catching the rep's attention, though this was probably some lame excuse that she whipped up to console me .... I was eventually waitlisted and must forever conjecture the extent to which this 'interview' influenced the decision.</p>
<p>I love the anecdote, though.</p>
<p>All I know is that my interviewers at Denison in Granville, Ohio looked and acted EXACTLY like Steve Buscemi and Jim Halpert from "The Office". It was so frighteningly awesome.</p>
<p>for my job interview I stuttered and stumbled through every question (all hypothetical nonsense)... Til the end
How do you make a peanut butter and jelly sandwhich
i pretty much dominated it, and swear its why I got the job</p>
<p>for my georgetown interview: I showed up at the guy's house on a Sunday night, rang the doorbell, and waited for him to come. When he answered the door I said the usual, hi how are you blah blah blah. He proceeded to ask me if I was babysitting for another house down the street or if I was looking for someone. Awkwardly had to explain that no, I was here for my interview. Seems he had forgotten my name/that we had the interview scheduled....</p>
<p>Luckily, the actual interview went great...and we'll see in a week if it helped!</p>
<p>Hahaha, during an interview for USC, when I was talking about EC's and whatnot, I completely forget the phrase, "The icing on the cake" and ended up saying, "The chocolate syrup on the vanilla ice cream" and actually laughed out loud. It was really embarassing, but she smiled anyway.</p>
<p>My son was asked why he hadn't applied EA to Harvard last year. (Obviously not an issue this year.) He replied because he thought MIT and Caltech were better fits and Harvard didn't let you apply EA anywhere else. The result was that the interviewer spent much of the interview trying to persuade my son that Harvard would be a fine place for him. BTW he did get into Harvard, but still chose to go somewhere more techy.</p>
<p>lariss, nice position to be in, actually. I'm sure he felt terrible, and gave you the benefit of the doubt whenever possible!</p>
<p>haha NYUjosh. At least you got your point across. I think I may steal your new idiom though.</p>
<p>So during my Yale interview I was talking about how important music is to me, and how my closest friends are people I've met through orchestras and summer camps and stuff. And my interviewer goes, "So, um...do you HAVE friends at school?"</p>
<p>-are u a supply side or demand side economist?
-Supply side (stated surly)
-Oh really.
-...wait demand side. sh**
-WHY?</p>
<p>My william and mary interview was quite fun. It was more like talking to a friend than an admin. There were 2 pretty funny things that happened during that
-I: So what type of music do you listen to? (I told her I was considering a music major)
-Me: Mostly Jazz. As well as some funk, soul, blues and some rock every know and then
-I: Oh that's good (puts her arm on my shoulder and says in a hushed tone) - you have nooo idea what type of crazy answers I get for that one.</p>
<p>And the second one was at the end when she was having me fill out some info sheet. She looked at it and goes "oh wow, you have some really nice hand writing" I found that comment a little odd so i turned and looked at her as she was taking a sip of her water. She just burst out laughing and spewed water over the back wall</p>
<p>It was a good time.</p>
<p>Wow, this thread made me really glad I didn't have to do any interviews. CSUs ftw!</p>
<p>oh and before I even got to writing her a thank you note (I wrote it within a week). I got one from her in the mail a few days later.</p>
<p>I still can't believe that if i hadn't of gotten up to fill out some form she would have sprayed me with water.</p>
<p>Not a bad/too awkward interview moment for me, but a story nonetheless. I had a job/internship interview the other day. At the beginning, the 2 interviewers are like, we won't tell you whether you're hired or not until we call you at a later time. So, the interview commences. blah blah blah, just the basic job interview questions. But then, they ask me; write down, right now, on this computer, 3 reasons why we should pick you over all other job applicants. I was like, wth? in my brain, but it wasn't too bad. I just reiterated/reworded some of the stuff I said in my cover letter, and then afterwards, they were like, we really like your resume and you are what we are looking for, we just wanted to confirm that you weren't like others who came in picking their noses and chewing bubble gum; then, we would have to reconsider. Then they hired me on the spot! So, that was a big ego boost, he he. College/scholarship applications, on the other hand, make my confidence at an all time low. </p>
<p>So good luck to all of you! Hopefully all your college/job/scholarship interviews don't turn out too bad, like some of the hilarious posts before this one. Even so, you're not doomed for all eternity...</p>
<p>I had a terrible experience at the Middlebury College, where, go figure, it turns out I'm applying ED. lol, well... maybe they forgot??</p>
<p>So firstly, I was having a really bad day because my parents were driving me crazy. It was just not a good situation. And then the interviewer comes down, and he's like this really gerbil-type of guy, very hyperactive and nervous-seeming (he was quite young). we start talking, and I'm obviously sounding very form and blah, because at some point, I don't remember how, he wanted to know why I was so passionate about environmentalism. He wanted to know my "feelings" or some bulls*** like that, i mean it was a little bizarre. So I was nervous and not being very intelligent, obviously, because I go off on this long rant, like: "i think everyone needs to just respect the earth because we are all one people, we are all the same. everything but nature is superficial, it is all that matters. it is all we have..." blah blah blah free love crap like that. it was seriously ridiculous. he must've thought i was such a freak. and then, to make matters worse, he asked about the fact that I'm editor of the school newspaper and how that came to be, and I told the most arrogant, self-serving story about how it happened, about how they were going to have co-editors but i told them i thought there should only be one, and I put myself on the line.... oh my gosh i cannot believe how bad it was. I could seriously see being rejected just for coming off like a pompous, free-love-promoting idiot. ugh.</p>
<p>bump! please don't let this marvelous threa die out (unfortunately I'm a junior HS so I dont have any interview experiences)</p>
<p>anyone else with somewhat interesting interview stories???</p>
<p>@ my georgetown interview</p>
<p>1) the lady asked what type of music I liked</p>
<p>i no everyone usually says the same thing for that one and i wanted to sound more intersting, so i told her i liked to listen to latino music on the radio,
then she asked about me speaking fluentspanish and how i take the meaning of the songs..</p>
<p>and i responded-- i didnt know a word of spanish, i just like to hum along
she looked at me oddly and wrote soemthing down.</p>
<p>@ my GW interview </p>
<p>i heard that that they ask you questions about world issues, and what are pressing issues in the world. I spent my preperation time thinking about those types of questions....</p>
<p>then she asked what i liked to do for fun
that totally threw me off.
i answered, "well i work alot"
she goes, "No, what do you do for fun??"
i answer again, "i like to help the homless."
this followed by an akward pause
and she goes, "no, fun! do you have like, freinds to hang out with?"
i totally threw me off, i started laughing
then i said we like to ice skate together?
i don't ice skate, she threw me off with this easy questions...ha</p>
<p>During my Colorado College interview, I explained to my interviewer that I have a tendency to go and Wikipedia whatever random topic intrigues me at the time. She asked me for an example, and I could only think of a really bad one, about how I was reading about Pittsburgh, and then realized that I had never really thought about Pittsburgh, so I went and read up on it. This really seemed to confuse her, and eventually she asked "...What's new in Pittsburgh?" I smiled and said "not much."</p>