Hi everyone! I just had the opportunity to interview for Princeton University. I thought the interview went relatively well, but at the very end, my interviewer did not give me an opportunity to ask questions and just thanked me for coming and told me to reach out if I have any questions. Did anyone else have a similar experience? And is this a bad sign? Thank you to everyone for reading this!
Can anyone help?
I’d assume he had another interview after yours or a meeting, and didn’t have time to extend. I wouldn’t read anything into it.
@momofsenior1 I will try not to thank you so much!
I hear Ivy interviews don’t help much but can hurt you. Did you sent a thank you?
Most alumni meetings are non evaluative.
Princeton interviews are evaluative. That having been said, different interviewers have different routines, or as mentioned above, maybe the interviewer had something else on his/her schedule. If you felt the interview went well in terms of your responses to the interviewer’s questions, then I’d feel good about that, but understand that the interview is unlikely to be the factor that gets you admitted or rejected…
@Likebikes Yikes…I did send a thank you email right after the interview, along with some questions (as he said I could reach him by email with questions). It’s been a few weeks, and he has not responded 
@BKSquared I felt that my responses were pretty okay (nothing amazing) but I was a little put off from the interview…And thank you for the information!
I’d guess that it’s a sign of a bad interviewer, not a bad interview.
Most alumni interviewers are likely not trained in interviewing. So they may assume the stereotypical model of just asking a lot of questions.
When I was involved in training our client service staff to do hiring interviews, this was a key teaching point - learn by listening and answering questions as much as by asking. It doesn’t come naturally.
@RichInPitt That’s very reassuring to hear thank you so so much! I’m hoping that is all it was…