Interviews

<p>The interviewer makes notes and they go into your application file.</p>

<p>How do I know? When D2 recieved her acceptance letter, there were references to things she had mentioned to her interviewer. (She interviewed off-campus, BTW.) She had also talked about her interest in doing research during her interview and was invited to apply for a PRG (Portable Research Grant, now called a Research and Inovation Grant).</p>

<p>But don’t be freaked out. Very informal. Mostly a get-to-know-you-better conversation. And your chance to ask any questions you have about the school.</p>

<p>Having interviewed for another school for many years, I would say this:</p>

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<li><p>The interviewer fills out a report. In days of yore, we hand wrote or typed them and mailed them. I filled out little index cards in the 80’s. As we moved into the machine age, we were given more of an outline to follow with specific things to concentrate on. Examples would be “focus on interests, not test scores and grades because we have those” or “try to give us a sense of what motivates this applicant to excellence.” I suppose the Harvard interviewers were asked “what makes this applicant egg-shaped” because that was their buzzword for years: we don’t want perfectly round people. (We used to laugh at that.)</p></li>
<li><p>You send it in. You eventually hear what happened to your interviewees. In the horse and buggy days, we’d get a letter or note card telling us or maybe a phone call from the local alumni council head (if you had a really good year and had a bunch of admissions from your applicants). I once got a handwritten letter from admissions telling me what a wonderful submission I’d made and how that gave them such a terrific picture of the applicant. He didn’t get in. I’ve never figured out what to make of that. Now a days, you fill out a thing on line and you can log into the admissions site to see your applicants’ admissions results. I assume UR has something similar. </p></li>
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<p>You do it. It might help. Unless you show up drunk or in costume (without an explanation), it won’t hurt. </p>

<p>To share what is to me a funny story, my interview with a big prestige school was in a guy’s house. It was a beaten-up half-house in a run down section of Detroit. You sat in a recliner with stacks of girlie magazines on the floor around it. He started by telling me what another kid from my school had said, in a way that sounded like he thought that was great. Really threw me because what the kid had said was total BS, which fit because he was full of crap. I guarantee your UR interview will not go like that. The interview for the school where I went consisted of him asking my test scores and then us watching the US Open on TV for an hour while he drank gin & tonic. At least the house was really, really, really nice. Again, your UR interview will not go like that.</p>

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<p>Negative, these slots are NOT open yet beyond August, and I thought that was odd. </p>

<p>That was the point of my original post. I was hoping you could fix that.</p>

<p>Got it. I just spoke with our Office Manager. She has informed me that on-campus events for September and October are going to to be visible at the end of July.</p>

<p>Sorry about that, and thanks for bringing the topic up!</p>