Hotchkiss SKYPE Interview

Prep School Admissions
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<p>what can i expect?
It's this week
How should i sit?
should i be smiling to my ears when it starts?</p>

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<p>Ah, yes, a Skype interview. I remember my own Skype interview quite fondly back when I was your age. Did I ever tell you about the time the admissions committee offered me a place on the spot based on my unparalleled poise during my Skype interview? There I was, with my MacBook open, sitting in a highback leather chair, in front of book stacks filled with matching volumes of great classics, smoking a calabash pipe and with a poppy tucked into the lapel of my brown suit when, much to my surprise…</p>

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<p>You had me going there for a second, DM. Then again, I knew that you are too “mature” for Skype. That would have been B4 your time.</p>

4

<p>do you think that they can hack into our MacBooks and check all our things and even ahck our camera to see what we do afterward? just a thought.
please comment</p>

5

<p>The answer is “yes,” but they will only bother wasting that kind of effort if they really like you…in which case they wouldn’t want to do that to someone that they really like, so the answer is “no.”</p>

6

<p>D’yer, If a candidate did the Skype interview shirtless while eating two bananas, do you think that might be a good hook? And what was in that pipe?</p>

7

<p>It seems like this thread is just going to be a joker thread.</p>

<p>How about playing an all-out Eminem song so that they can’t hear you. or going outside to play some keepy-uppy with your soccer ball in the middle of it. or wear a mascot helmet. or dress up as a Hogwarts student who got expelled for being a muggle. or take your mac to the swimming pool-side and do the interview floating on the water. Or do it on the roof-top, in a dark closet, put your cam upside down, jamming in jockeys, jamming on your bass guitar, beat-boxing, scream out of the blue, etc.</p>

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<p>Okay Snape, sorry.</p>

<p>Sit on the couch or at the table, wherever you’re comfortable. Well, relatively comfortable–maybe not your bed or your gaming chair.</p>

<p>Wear what you’d wear to an on-site interview.</p>

<p>Practice with someone and check out your expression. Seriously. Skype is different from face-to-face contact–to me my kids and friends look completely different. Better in some light than others, in some clothes than others, at certain distances. Experiment.</p>

<p>How’s that? (It’s been a grim morning…I was badly in need of some D’yer-like levity…what can I say?)</p>

9

<p>Okay Snape, sorry.</p>

<p>Sit on the couch or at the table, wherever you’re comfortable. Well, relatively comfortable–maybe not your bed or your gaming chair.</p>

<p>Wear what you’d wear to an on-site interview.</p>

<p>Practice with someone and check out your expression. Seriously. Skype is different from face-to-face contact–to me my kids and friends look completely different. Better in some light than others, in some clothes than others, at certain distances. Experiment.</p>

<p>How’s that? (It’s been a grim morning…I was badly in need of some D’yer-like levity…what can I say?)</p>

10

<p>Put a Hotchkiss Banner on the wall behind you. Just kidding!</p>