<p>wear any cannibal corpse t shirt</p>
<p>Just tell the truth and keep it short so you are not wasting the interviewer’s time.</p>
<p>While telling them the truth would be the proper thing to do, the other suggestions in this thread are too good to pass up! Go for it!</p>
<p>Ha- would suck if the OP does everything we suggested and the interviewer ends up loving him.</p>
<p>jizz in a cup and then drink it</p>
<p>Seriously though—just go and be sincere…if you get a bigger scholarship, tell your parents how important it is for you to go to the other school…they will understand</p>
<p>Also remember that you might run into your interviewer in the business world at some later date and will be glad that you behaved in a mature and honest way . . .</p>
<p>I know i probably sound really insensitive and rude, but this isn’t my nature at all. My parents are psycho, and I just can’t trust them to care about my needs and what I want. I know I’m a fantastic fit for the other school (which, to answer someone else’s question, I will definetely get in and have already interviewed for a half-tuition scholarship which I am fairly certain I will get), and I’ve also been to this school and given it a really fair chance, and just didn’t like it very much. However, said school is a huge university that is ranked pretty highly as compared to the school I like, which is tiny and therefore not really ranked. They don’t understand the concept of liberal arts schools at all. I know for some people it would be easy to talk to their parents and explain these sorts of things, but my parents are just completely non-understanding and it’s much easier to manipulate them than to waste hours fighting with them. I really wish things hadn’t come to this, but I’m about to be 18 and I don’t have time to be miserable and unhappy at some huge school that I don’t want to go to. I let them have their way with my high school “choice”, and I ended up spending freshman year in a huge depression. I’m really looking forward to my college experience, and I don’t want to ruin things by doing badly frosh year. And please don’t lecture me about how any school will end up being great…these places are parallel opposites, and I know from my high school experience that I don’t do well in huge, impersonal environments- this would end up being much more than an I-hate-my-school-i-have-no-friends issue, but a i-need-to-see-a-shrink-or-i’ll-jump-out-of-a-window deal. I’m taking this pretty seriously. I was semi-joking about some of the stuff I mentioned in my original post, but I really honestly need to not get this scholarship. My parents can afford to pay for any school, but they’d rather just be complete jerks and make me go to a school that they think is good and gives me money. I’m really hoping that I don’t sound like some sort of ungrateful teenager. I love my parents, they’re good people, it’s just that they’re from an entirely different culture and it’s hard to get through to them sometimes. They don’t really believe in American core values and the like, and it’s really tough sometimes living in America with American friends and American TV and non-American parents. But I digress. I’m really not trying to waste the interviewers time, I just need a way not to get this scholarship, and I’m looking for the best way to do it without getting in trouble or looking like a complete jerk.</p>
<p>^uhh…chillax?</p>
<p>there, i said it</p>
<p>Talk slang, and use trashy words. Also, be loud and act like if you ain’t paying attention</p>
<p>haha maybe I could chillax if I were in california…where my dream school is!</p>
<p>Prince,</p>
<p>Why not go through with the interview, and tell your parents you didn’t get it, no matter what? Just go where you wanna go, where is that btw?</p>
<p>Princess, bear in mind that college folks attend conferences together, and FERPA only applies to schools in which you enroll. It would be terrible if your immature act were so effective, convincing, and memorable that it sparked a conversation at the open bar… and came back to haunt you.</p>
<p>I’m with the posters here who’ve suggested that you just tell the interviewer the truth: You’re there because your parents want you to be; you really aren’t interested in X college; you hope they’ll award the scholarship to someone who really dreams of attending X college. And then apologize for taking up their time on a “cold lead,” but ask if you can gain the benefit of their experience in some area you’ve been wondering about with respect to college life. You’ll probably end up having a nice, interesting, laid-back conversation and walking out with a good reputation… and no scholarship offer.</p>
<p>All this assumes, of course, that what you’ve decided you want is really the best choice for you. Your choice of approach (assuming you’re not ■■■■■■■■) and your description of your situation seem to reflect much more teen drama than mature analysis. And are you so sure your parents will pay for the smaller school you prefer? Given what you’ve posted, it might not be an option for you at all. If money is an issue (and it is for most everyone at present), you might be very happy to have that scholarship when August rolls around.</p>
<p>Yes, the OP should talk about money with her parents before she tanks the interview. Many families have lost 40 to 50% of their net worth during the past six months. She better make sure her family can still afford the school she expects half tuition at. Options her parents may have had even a month ago (home equity loans, investments) may well have disappeared. If money is not the issue, then she should take geek_mom’s advice and protect her reputation.</p>
<p>Though if the OP would be seriously depressed at this type of school (which, it seems, might be the case considering the type of high school OP went to) it might not be worth it even if it was completely free. If OP had to take massive loans to be happy, I’d still think it was worth it.</p>
<p>I say that you should just go into the interview and very respectfully (and firmly) say that you absolutely DO NOT want this scholarship and you would rather it was given to another student. I doubt that they would give it to you…</p>
<p>Though, a friend of mine who did alumni interviews for Hopkins said that he interviewed a girl once who said she had no intention of going there at all and was still accepted. Go figure.</p>
<p>Okay listen princess,
First of all most the guys here are dumbasses.
Hitting on the interviewer, wearing provocative clothing, playing with the zipper on your jacket, and acting like a dumb blond isn’t going to get you rejected from the university, its going to make the interviewer let you in with a full scholarship. (If you catch my drift.)
On top of that, if he asks you if you have any nicknames make sure to tell him to call you princess. </p>
<p>Now listen, there are lots of a chicks who come here with emotional issues talking about how their parents don’t understand and want them to go to a university while all they want to do is attend community college with their boyfriend from Switzerland so that they can “discover their inner self.”</p>
<p>But I know you are smarter than that, I mean hell you got a 2340 on your SAT. I’d sell my soul to the devil to pass the SAT with that score if I hadn’t already sold it to pass a sobriety test. Now glancing at the stats I’m guessing you want to go to Scripps and you parents want you to go to Brown. </p>
<p>Now if it were mean I’d never go to Scripps. (Mostly because my ***** disqualifies me from attending their.) But even if I were a girl I still would rather go to Brown.</p>
<p>Hey the difference though is I want to study science and you probably want to study literature. So for us technical people the name really does matter. (Despite what your counselor tells you.) However, Liberal Arts is one of those iffy ones. </p>
<p>Now, you probably hate this top school cause you went to a summer program there. Well, summer programs such in general. Every year colleges makes millions of dollars by sending pamphlets out that let kids know they can attend some prestigious university over the summer. The parents gasp and go, “O EM GEE my kid can go to Stanford over the summer?” Now, the kids go and get some crappy excuse for an education while they are stuck in “dorms.” Really, no one comes back from a summer program liking the school any more. These schools literally are renting their name and space during the summer to make a few extra bucks.</p>
<p>Okay but the choice is yours so here’s what you can do.
Don’t send in a crucial piece of paper work. (For example don’t give Brown your midyear report.)</p>
<p>It definitely isn’t Brown. They don’t do scholarship interviews like that.</p>
<p>^^haha you’re so off-base I don’t even know where to start.</p>
<p>Anyway, I really want to emphasize that although I started out with a joking attitude, this isn’t really a joke to me- like most people on CC, the whole college thing is a huge deal to me. I apologize for what some may have seen as irreverence or trollling (I wish I’d spent 3 years on CC just to become a ■■■■■ :)) Of course I’m not going to scratch dandruff onto the interviewer’s table. I don’t have dandruff.</p>
<p>In regards to the money thing, my parents have ensured me that they can quote “pay for any school”. I prepared the FAFSA and PROFILE by myself with full access to their up-to-date finances and my college fund, so I can tell what’s going on. They have said over and over they will pay for schools like Dartmouth and Brown (which isn’t the other school lol) which will undoubtedly be full price because they give terrible financial aid to people who make within their ranges of income. They wouldn’t be using the full scholarship as a legit reason to save money but as an excuse to make me go to what they imagine is a better school (according to US News). I’m not trying to demonize my parents or run them into bankruptcy, I just want to ensure that I get a good education at a place where I can flourish and be happy. Maybe botching an interview isn’t the best way, but again, you don’t know my parents. If you have any suggestions, i’m totally up for anything.</p>
<p>Thanks for those who gave suggestions, legitimate or not. The funny ones were hilarious to read and put me in a good mood, and the serious ones made me question my acting skills. And I especially appreciate the concerns of the parents who are worried about my parent’s ability to afford the schools. If that was the reason they’d given, I would have been fine with that. I’m not so selfish that I don’t care about my parents financial wellbeing. But it wasn’t.</p>
<p>“Don’t send in a crucial piece of paper work. (For example don’t give Brown your midyear report.)”</p>
<p>That’s playing hard to get-and they might come looking for her. Now, Litsen kid, what do you think she has to say when they call her up? She has to say the same things she could have said to the interviewer, or better yet, the adcom himself. </p>
<p>It’s funny how it takes you 500 words of complete nonsense and failed attempts at humor to conclude with quite possibly the worst-and most lame-advice anyone could give to a girl with emotional issues who simply does not want to be stuck in a school picked out by her parents. </p>
<p>“Mostly because my ***** disqualifies me from attending their.”</p>
<p>Hm, perhaps you should have sold your soul to the devil to pass the grammar test.</p>
<p>Be respectful as has been said before, and tell the interviewer that you’re only there because your parents are making you go and you hope that they’ll give the money to someone who wants it.</p>