<p>My interviewer asks me to pick hours, but they are all in the mornings during weekdays. Is this normal? She expects me to skip classes for this interview? </p>
<p>What am I supposed to do? I am generally not enthusiastic about interviews, btw.</p>
<p>Bumping!!!</p>
<p>Call her and tell her that you would be reluctant to skip school in order to attend an interview and ask if she has any time free when you would not be at school. If she does not, I’d probably contact the admissions office or the head of interviews and tell them your interviewer is only offering interviews during school hours.</p>
<p>LOL this is very interesting scenario I’d never though could happen.</p>
<p>^ I second WedgeDawg’s suggestion. 
or contact the interviewer and tell him/her about your scenario, and if you can have one not during your school time</p>
<p>^^ So, it is not normal to have interviews during school hours, right? It would not be rude to ask her to meet at non-school hours, right? I hate to challenge interviwers and need confirmation, pls.</p>
<p>Lol, why don’t you just suck it up and go? That’s a perfect excuse to miss school!</p>
<p>If I were you, I would just skip school and go to the interview. It is not normal to have a interview during school hours, but you don’t have many options. Skipping school to go to the interview may show the interviewer your desire to do all you can to attend Penn. You can ask your interviewer about changing the time, but all people are different and she may take your request as being rude. If you are bent on not missing school, call the admissions office and they will either try to get you another interviewer or just cancel your interview all together. Having an interview to go to Penn is not that important anyway.</p>
<p>As an interviewer for another Ivy, I’d never ask a student to skip school. Nor would I let my kid skip to do so. I would respectfully say that your school days are very inflexible and ask if there’s another time or weekend that’s open. Otherwise, ask if another alum could take your appointment. </p>
<p>My 100% honest opinion is this: the alum is a little full of herself.</p>
<p>Maybe they are testing you to see how committed you are to school.</p>
<p>"Maybe they are testing you to see how committed you are to school. "</p>
<p>No, the interviewer is going against their own stated guidelines in order to make things easier on herself.</p>
<p>what T26 said…definitely questionable behavior on the interviewer’s part, but I would just get it over with. It’s one day unless you have a test daily I doubt it’s that big of a deal.</p>
<p>I think hahalolk was joking…</p>
<p>I skipped school for an interview. It wasn’t really a big deal. I would just do it…</p>
<p>I’ve seen lots of people miss a period or two for interviews. This is relatively normal. Don’t fret.</p>
<p>you go to school everyday…you dont get to interview for an ivy league university everyday. skip school and go. lol</p>
<p>Here is what happens with many of the students who applied to ivies at my school:</p>
<h1>1: ALL (and I mean ALL) of the students who applied to Harvard had their interview DURING SCHOOL. Rejecting the interview or complaining about it, it probably doesn’t make it look good. Our interviewer is a state supreme court justice, he can care less about you if you think your time is more important than his. Especially since there are many qualified and dedicated students to pick out of.</h1>
<h1>2: Cornell interviewed at my school, in other words, the interviewer, actually came to my school and interviewed DURING SCHOOL HOURS.</h1>
<h1>3: Some students had their Columbia interviews were during school hours at Panera Bread.</h1>
<h1>4: Many of the students who applied to Penn at my school signed out and had their interview.</h1>
<p>So it is not uncommon for students from my school to sign out and go to an interview. Skipping 1-2 hours to determine your your life for the next few years is WAY MORE important than to sit in an AP class. PLUS, to an interviewer/admissions counselor, rejecting or complaining about the interview times do not look well. The interviewers are taking their time out from their lives to talk to you and help you get accepted into college. To think you time is more important than theirs would send a wrong message. They can care less about you if they have oh 20,000+ applicants to choose from. Not having an interview for an Ivy puts you at a disadvantage since you will be competing against students who have the same, and even better grades than you do and who has had an interview. </p>
<p>Lets just think about this for a moment:
You are applying for a job (say you want to go to business) and Goldman Sachs contacts you for an interview, but you realize you are in class during that period. Would you ask them to reschedule and make it more frustrating for the interviewer since he has many qualified applicants to choose from, or would you take it?
Likewise for Med/Law/Grad school, those interviews sometimes take a long time. Would you ask them to reschedule for you? Or would you take time off.</p>
<p>I would take time off.</p>
<p>That sounds like an absolutely horrible idea. Your interviewer should be aware of the fact that you have school. I also highly doubt that skipping school will show any kind of “commitment” you have for Penn.</p>