<p>So, what advice would you give to an international student having an interview soon. I know that each interviewer is unique, and thus has his/her own... demans, but I think there are some general guidelines to follow so that it goes well.
Please tell me a couple of them.</p>
<p>Thanks in advance.</p>
<p>every interviewer is different, you sometimes have an interviewer who is very talkative or someone who is very "shy"...</p>
<p>Just be cool... be yourself and show it to him/ her
If you do that right, you will feel the interviewer more as a conversation with an adult than a test....</p>
<p>I got an Harvard interview a week ago... and I thought it went pretty well.. said everything I wanted to say.... It took 2 and an half hour though</p>
<p>2 and a half??? Incredible, because he's only giving me 1 hour. I know he'll be doing 2 or 3 more interview right after me.</p>
<p>Actually we scheduled the interview to last 45 min, but it took a little bit longer:)</p>
<p>I think your interview went exceptionally well: scheduled for 45 minutes, lasted 2.5 hours.</p>
<p>What did you talk about all this time? What questions were the most hard to answer?</p>
<p>We talk about everything, my interest, my background etc...
It were all personal stuff... and they were not hard, because the only thing you need to do is tell them what you did the last few years and what your plans are for the near future</p>
<p>well, are there any... tricky questions? How certain should you be about your area of study/major/department etc. ? What about about other things?</p>
<p>I have this stereotype that the interviewer would not much like to hear sth like "I have yet decided. I might do this thing, or I might do the other thing." or "I think I want to do engineering, but it might happen that I'll switch to research."</p>
<p>By the way, what do YOU most like about Harvard? Or what are its advantages compared to MIT?</p>
<p>my princeton interviewer was so shy...i end up asking questions and she answered....</p>
<p>i wish i had an interview, but i haven't been contacted for one :( (i'm international too)</p>
<p>Same.. I'm a US citizen, but I live in HK. And since so many ppl apply from here, I haven't been contacted either. But its getting late.... :D oh well hope for the best. But I don't understand, Princeton responded within a week after they confirmed my application.</p>
<p>I'm international too and I've got the interview today. To all you international guys: It's not about them contacting you as in America, you have to show some initiative and contact them! I got this brochure showing all the available interviewers around the world, you just pick one that is closest to you and and that's it - everybody can have an interview</p>
<p>Is it ok if we don't contact the interviewer ourselves and instead wait to be contacted?</p>
<p>That should be alright if your country isn't listed on the 'harvard country list of alumni contacts' like Hong kong. But otherwise you're suppose to contact them yourselves.</p>
<p>Does MIT have a list of ECs worldwide that is publicly available? One like Harvard's?</p>
<p>Okay, now i have a problem.... What if your interviewer was an athlete graduating from Harvard? What would you talk about(i mean, i like sports generally but not really have a passion about it and don't play much sports as well...) ? Is he as intellectual as other Harvard graduates?......... I don't know what i should do............... Arg.....</p>
<p>If he's clearly a sporting nut then try and humour him for a bit, ask questions, tell him about your sporting endeavours, then once you've exhausted your efforts on the sports side of the conversation try and subtly turn it away from sports. Alternatively once you're done just say that sports isn't really your thing and you're afraid you don't know much about it.</p>