<p>does penn send them stuff about u, or do they do into the interview knowing absolutely nothing about u?</p>
<p>Alums interview you knowing nothing about you other than your name, high school, and contact information.</p>
<p>However, don't treat the interview as a time for you to tell the interviewer your laundry list of EC's or how great you are at Math. You should use this opportunity to let the interviewer (and the adcom) see who you are as a person.</p>
<p>Haha, my French teacher does interviews for my area. She basically gave me the choice of having her do my interview or having her do my formal recommendation. I chose the rec. Good choice or bad choice? Even so, how would adcom even know that she went to Penn?</p>
<p>She probably wrote in her rec that she went to Penn, that way she can speak from her own experience that you would be a good fit, etc.</p>
<p>The thing with alumni interviews is that the interviewer does not get to pick who they interview. We can give preferences - ie females applying to engineering - but that's it. Then the Secondary Schools Committee randomly chooses students to interview and sends us a list of however many we said we could interview.</p>
<p>Anyway it's better that she wrote your rec. If she did your interview, which would be hard in the first place, then it would be completely biased and the adcom might just dismiss it. The point is interviewing someone that you don't know so that you can give the adcom an "objective" evaluation of the applicant.</p>
<p>Does anyone know how the legacy interviews work? I have one in early November. What kind of questions will I be asked?</p>
<p>It depends if it is an on-campus or local interviews. The on-campus interviewers really want to get to know you, they work directly for the school and they want you to lead the direction of the interview. However, local interviews can be crazy, my dad's friend used to do alumni interviews and said that he would spend half the times just learning what their grades were and that by the time he knew the person at all the interview was almost over because they go in completely blind.</p>
<p>I do alumni interviews and honestly we aren't supposed to ask about grades because we aren't there to evaluate your academics or how you'll stack compared to everyone else grade-wise. Alumni interviewers are supposed to ask about YOU - what you like to do, where you see yourself in 5 years, why you want to go to Penn, what your favorite class is in school, what you do in your spare time, etc. That kind of stuff.</p>