<p>My interviewer graduated from Wharton 25 years ago. I'm at loss at what to ask hims about...obviously he is unaware of the detail of certain programs and I think asking him about his fav EAs or the people he met there or the academic quality just seems WEIRD.</p>
<p>What suggestions do you guy have?</p>
<p>Well, he probably has been interviewing for a while so stays current on what’s important to HS senior/UPenn candidates. Ask him about his undergraduate days and what led him to make his choices. Ask about things he would have done differently. Ask if he knows about areas that you’d like to investigate (area of study, ECs) and his opinions about them at UPenn. Ask him his impressions of UPenn before entering, as a student and now in retrospect. Ask him his thoughts on the best and worst aspects of UPenn.</p>
<p>Most alum interviewers probably wouldn’t have detailed info about specific programs anyway.</p>
<p>Remember: his job is twofold. 1) to evaluate your level of enthusiasm, intellectual and social strength, and to allow you to inform UPenn admissions anything outside of the confines of your application and 2) to sell UPenn to a potential admit</p>
<p>I suggest you mature pretty quickly, if you can;t figure out how to relate to a elder who may possess some insight into how the school made sensce for them, you are not Ivy material…</p>
<p>That said, ask him/her exactly that, how did the Penn education pay off ( how did you use it after graduating, did it pay off in mid-carreer, I can think of thousands of q’s.</p>
<p>Good luck</p>
<p>Thanks T26E4, that was very edifying! I have loads of ideas now. :)</p>