<p>I said DAMN at one of my interviews and my interviewer started laughing!!</p>
<p>What about weird questions? </p>
<p>At one school, when my son mentioned he played tennis, the interviewer asked him which brand his tennis racquet was. My son said he was blanked out and just picked a name randomly. The same interviewer also asked what type of snickers he wore. :)</p>
<p>At one of my interviews, the person took a sip from a drink, and spilled it all over their shirt! I kept talking and at the end he/she mentioned how mature I was for not gigging…:)</p>
<p>At my first interview I was completly blank like the entire time, I was so nervous. Then he asked what I wanted him to come away with from the interview and I went on an on about being super motivated about something Im passionate about and being a perfectionist about it and he asked “Are you saying your passionate about boarding school” and i was like “um, yeah?” and he looked at me like i was crazy for a second and wrote something down. probably “applicant exetremely obssessive. maybe to insane proportions.”</p>
<p>Also at the end of one of my interviews, my interviewer went into cardiac arrest and i saved his life o_O!!
NOT!!! But that would have been scary beyond belief and then hilarious later.</p>
<p>Interviewer: If you could speak to one historical figure who would it be and what would you ask him/her ?</p>
<p>Me: … Can you repeat the question? (<em>buys more time to think</em>)</p>
<p>Interviewer: If you could speak to one historical figure who would it be and what would you ask him/her?</p>
<p>…<em>Awkward silence</em>… (still thinking)</p>
<p>Interviewer: Do you need me to repeat the question again?</p>
<p>Me: No, I’m good.</p>
<p>Me: … umm … uhhhhhh, I going to have to go with Abraham Lincoln.</p>
<p>Interviewer: Why?</p>
<p>Me: because he was a president.</p>
<p>Interviewer: (looks at me in a way that seems to mean “care to elaborate?”)</p>
<p>Interviewer: What would you ask him?</p>
<p>Me: … umm… uhhhhhh, How did you become president?</p>
<p>Interviewer: Is that it? (getting angry)</p>
<p>Me: yep…</p>
<p>That was one of the worst interviews ever. haha. I am still recooperating.</p>
<p>Bwwwwaaahahahaa!!!</p>
<p>@Hoping411 I totally believed you for a second there. Then I read the follow-up sentence and I giggled.</p>
<p>The most awkward name about my interview was that I totally did not catch what his name was, so I spent the whole interview avoiding directly saying his name.</p>
<p>at my another one of my interviews, I shook the admissions person’s hand like 10 times. </p>
<p>One when he came and met my and my family. Once when I left his office. Once when he came back to take my parents. Once when my parents came back with him. </p>
<p>He must have wrote down “likes to shake hands… A LOT”</p>
<p>Interviewer: How was your morning? (refering to my tour)
Me: Oh, it was… interesting.
Interviewer: <em>gives me a bewildered look</em>
Me: It was good.</p>
<p>My handshakes were terrible because my hands were freezing cold. I don’t think the interviewer even wanted to touch them. At the next interview, I made sure to warm up my hands really well while I was waiting, lol.</p>
<p>When I’m nervous I tend to giggle a lot and babble, so during my first interview as we were talking through the hallway to a room it was pretty much like this:</p>
<p>Interviewer: Oh, you’re from pretty far away! How was your trip here?
Me: W-well, it was kinda cramped and there were lots of people except not really cuz it was just us four and a lot of towel paper! And I had Oreos for breakfast which was interesting and tasty but I’m kinda hungry right now haha. Oreos taste really really good. They’re like my favorite breakfast.
Interviewer: [nervous laughter] …I see.</p>
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<p>And then for Exeter, we walked into this really cool room with a Harkness table and engraved Latin on the ceiling. </p>
<p>Me: Oh hey, this is a cool room.
Interviewer: This is the room where we make the application decisions. We discuss at that table.
Me: …Oh. [sits far away from the table]</p>
<p>Love this thread from last year. Anyone want to give this year’s stories?</p>
<p>This is for my interview at Andover. The main reason I was so scared about my interview was b/c of this dialogue. This isn’t that funny, more frightening.</p>
<p>Interviewer: So, what are your grades like?
Me: (Gives details of grades in 7th grade)
Interviewer: What about 6th grade?
Me: I did well, but they weren’t as high. I’d say I averaged around an A- or a B+.
Interviewer: Why?
Me: Why… that is an interesting question.
Interviewer: Yes it is.
Me: Well, I didn’t exactly have the best year that year… ummm… I was going through a lot I guess er…</p>
<p>I had no idea what to say lol.</p>
<p>^^^ wow, that is so freaky. was that an off-campus admissions rep or an actual admissions officer? if it was the latter, i’m surprised :0</p>
<p>my freakiest moments were just technical difficulties (literally) since all of my interviews were via Skype. one of them disconnected mid-interview (interviewer lost internet connection!), another one had horrible audio, and 2 of them kept freezing! yikes. </p>
<p>excerpt from one of my interviews:</p>
<p>me: bla bla bla bla… the speech was really intimidating, i hope they [my classmates] were laughing with me, not at me… haha
interviewer: 
me (thinking): oh crap that was a joke, why aren’t you laughing…</p>
<p>later,</p>
<p>me: something totally not funny
interviewer: WAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAH</p>
<p>:S ??? hmm… interviews were interesting. some of them went really well, and none were disastrous, though 2 of them were kind of disappointing 
they both suffered technical difficulties, but so did my best one!</p>
<p>another freaky thing is if you’re interviewing with an alum and it seems like they didn’t really like the school. like, at the end of one of my interviews, the alum said that he wouldn’t send his kids to Academy X (it’s a HADES). um…? he didn’t really elaborate, just said that it wasn’t worth the money. hmm…</p>
<p>I remember in one of my top schools my interviewer told me to go get my dad so she could speak with him. She gave me directions, but I forgot them, so I ended up wandering around the admissions building, asking for directions. I found them a couple minutes later looking for me. x___x</p>
<p>At my phone interview my fire alarm started ringing!! It was crazy lol</p>
<p>On revisit day for Child1, AO introduced him/herself to Child2 (then a 7th grader) and said that he/she really wanted to read her application in the coming application cycle. We saw this AO again in the fall during move in and he/she couldn’t have been friendlier. Fast forward to interview. Greeted us warmly, took Child2 for her interview. Then it was my turn. He/she began by apologizing to me. He/she confessed that it was some minutes into Child2’s interview when he/she realized that things sounded familiar…and then the lightbulb went off–he/she had met us before. The AO had then proceeded to rave about Child1’s interview to Child2, how Child1 had been one of only three applicants to have gotten his/her highest recommendation last year, etc. etc. etc. I can just imagine Child2 inwardly deflating and outwardly smiling. I think the AO realized that he/she might have overdone it and overstepped a bit. How this will all play out for Child2 is anyone’s guess, but it definitely was awkward.</p>
<p>Argh. I guess that proves we are all human.</p>
<p>I spilled coffee on my pants before my interview, and I went in looking like I peed myself.
Not one of my most flattering moments, ahaha.</p>
<p>^ westcoast_
almost the exact thing happened to me!</p>
<p>In one of my interviews, the woman asked me 5 people i would like to meet, and i said these names from wwII and i was listing all these people (im really fascinated by that era) and I accidently said Adolf Hitler.
After that everything went awkward :P</p>