<p>It's a 30min... 40min max conversation in most cases...</p>
<p>You'll manage to have a conversation.</p>
<p>Kristina, I don't know about your local weather, but the skirt, and thus by extension, the outfit, looks awfully "summery."</p>
<p>To people like me, who follow strict sartorial commandments (i.e. no summer dress of any sort after Labour Day and before Easter, see the Official Preppy Handbook), this seems just a bit suspect.</p>
<p>Nothing serious.</p>
<p>Would black shoes & black sweater or something help?</p>
<p>You're way over thinking this.</p>
<p>You're definitely right. Part of it is that people keep giving conflicting suggestions/input! ...that I feel obligated to consider :D</p>
<p>Lol, I had a phone interview :D Really makes things easier, doesn't it.</p>
<p>For my Bowdoin interview I wore grey skinny jeans with a nice belt, black ballerina flats, a nice3/4 sleeve black top and a simple long golden locket necklace. Yes, i was in jeans but i think i looked much less ridiculous than some of the girls who were wearing dresses but didn't feel at all comfortable in them. Basically I think people should wear what they are comfortable in as long as the overall appearance of the outfit is professional. Remember, we're still teenagers.....</p>
<p>Last year my D had just about given up hope that she would even be called for a Brown interview, and had her nose pierced! She wanted to do it, but wanted to wait until all of the interviews were done. Well, wouldn't you know it, two days after she had it pierced she was called for the Brown interview. She figured what the heck, and went on the interview. She has her own quirky sense of style, and dressed for comfort. Probably a skirt, lacy top, leggings and boots. She was totally relaxed and said it went fine. She actually didn't think she would get in, given the competition. Well, maybe relaxation is the key. She did get accepted, attends Brown, and is extremely happy.</p>
<p>Worried about a piercing? Brown is not Bob Jones :)</p>
<p>Well, she knew that, but she didn't know what kind of impression it would make on the interviewer. Now she laughs when she thinks of it!</p>
<p>I interview for an Ivy and I had this interviewee with a huge nose ring; NOT a little stud, but like rings that hold up heavy drapery!!!! It sort of made me queasy...which is probably what you don't want to do to your interviewer.</p>
<p>Had my interview today. About 60 min at his house. He was super cute, but his girlfriend was there the ENTIRE time annoying the hell out me. She made tea, though. That was nice. It was so hot today that I ended up wearing a dress. We talked about the dorms (I had no idea the dorm floors were COED! Are the bathrooms coed? Was too embarrassed to ask. Anybody know?)</p>
<p>Oh, and he gladly took my resume and slides. Really nice guy. But that girlfriend. My god.</p>
<p>So I was kind of shocked by the coed dorms. I thought girls and boys were housed on separate floors. At Vassar and Yale all the bathrooms are coed, aren’t they? Hmm… anyway, he coughed on me and now I feel icky. Going to lay down. </p>
<p>Isabella.</p>
<p>P.S. I think a black sweater would go great with that skirt, Kristina. It doesn’t look too summery.</p>
<p>That depends on the dorm.</p>
<p>Did he ask you to bring that stuff, or did you just bring it?</p>
<p>Just brought it myself.</p>
<p>i wouldn't worry about vassar having coed dorms....to be quite frank about it, i don't see how any real men could actually want to go to some formerly all-female place like vassar or sarah lawrence for college.. (or this is just me acting out my rugby-playing all-male school bias)</p>
<p>oh and plus, just join a sorority. I am totally rushing frat ASAP when i go to college. after all, what's college without the intense brotherhood?</p>
<p>Brown's frat scene is not like those at most other schools. It's fairly small (there are like six frats and two sororities, then some literary societies) and a couple students have told me it's very easy to forget it exists. Brown and Dartmouth are basically polar opposites in this respect.</p>
<p>The majority of schools at this point are coed by room, not floor, and in fact at Brown, as log as there is a door you can lock between your beds, suites are coed as well, so you can choose to live with members of hte opposite sex sharing a bathroom or common room.</p>
<p>Hall type bathrooms are generally gendered, though there has been a desire to add more gender neutral space on campus. I'm not really sure how well that's going over with people or how fast that is or isn't happening.</p>
<p>And yes, the frat thing is pretty small in terms of student participation, though their parties are always pretty crowded. WAY different than Dartmouth though, and I can tell you that in three years at Brown, despite going to about a party a weekend, I've been inside 1 frat party. You can completely ignore the Wriston party scene if it's not your thing (it's not mine... too large, too stingy on the EtOH, too many of a certain set of the student body, terrible to interact, etc).</p>
<p>lol... this entire thread makes me laugh.</p>
<p>But I've got to admit, I'm totally hoping that my interviewers are male. Intelligence + attractiveness + interesting personality seems to always do the trick. Over the summer I interned at a company and they just happened to be in the middle of the hiring process for one spot, and I got to observe soo many interviews. The main thing these interviewers are looking to assess is your personality/response to a certain social situation/intelligence, and what I noticed was that the male interviewers were always favorably inclined towards the attractive candidates - especially when they exhibited the above qualities.</p>
<p>And we continue to make such a big deal of these interviews which make close to absolutely no difference in Brown's admissions decisions! Can we move on?</p>
<p>Modestmelody, I just reread your post. Most of the rooms are coed?? Are freshman rooms coed? If so, can you request the sex of your roommate in advance? Why has there been a desire for more gender neutral bathrooms on campus? I don’t get it. Who would want that?</p>