<p>Anyone want to share their interview experiences? Thx</p>
<p>Good or bad experiences?</p>
<p>Sorry - should have been more specific.</p>
<p>I'm just wondering what it's like to go through an interview, so I know what to expect.</p>
<p>(So to answer your question - all experiences)</p>
<p>pre_lives, you/we may have to bump this thread. Your question is excellent. The only problem is that very few people are currently on this area of CC. As we get closer to prepare for visits, apps, etc. this thread will be booming.</p>
<p>By the way, we had a negative experience at a school that shall remain unnamed. The day we were interviewing, they had a headmaster day off. Of course all schools have this surprise during the year. The only problem was that we felt we got the bums rush. Traveling 2000 miles to recieve this quick treatment was not inappropriate in our view. Needless to say, theywere quickly crossed off my d list.</p>
<p>I never proof read what I write, so please forgive me. I meant to write that we felt it was inappropriate. Of course you never know when these days are comming. My suggestion would be that they never consider these surprise's when propspective students are visiting. Just think if you came from another continent. Bush League!</p>
<p>Oh, that's not good. What was so inappropriate about it? Did they cancel your tour (that would make sense if the students were off...)?</p>
<p>And I apologize if it was Andover. For some reason I get that impression from the posts.</p>
<p>No it was not Andover. They rushed us through the whole deal. Whe a prospective student travels a long distance to tour and interview, you expect to get just that. You don't expect to get excuses and then rushed quickly. The bottom line, no students were available and the quick tour was packaged with an interview at the same time. It was ridiculous.</p>
<p>HI, I interviewed at ten indipernedednt schools last year and now consider myself an "expert" on the topic, not to be obnoxious... I'm going to Exeter as a 9th grader starting in a few weeks. Anyways the interviews for me were really easy, though, I am good at speaking to adults. In the interviews some common questions were: "tell me about your classes", "what do you do in your spare time" "what did you do last summer". They were simple questions and the most important thing to do is be honest. I was asked several times where else I was applying (be honest, they might check) and why I was interested in the school. Be prepared Ti tell them what you liked about your tour and to ask questions... Read the information carefully, you want to show the admissions officer that you are sincerly interested. Most of all relax, they'll know if your nervous or reciting memorized lines..Good Luck!!</p>
<p>rbupe, wow thanks for the specificity of your comment.</p>
<p>The only thing I really remember about my interview (I only interviewed / applied at Exeter) was that I talked about my love of Bonsai... although that can't have taken up the entire time.</p>
<p>d had a question as to who's idea it was to attend boarding school. She also had a question about the last good book she read. </p>
<p>Please note: if you apply to Middlesex, there is no long type esay question on the app, however, during your interview you will be given an essay. </p>
<p>They asked if we knew anyone that is currently attending their school or ayone who has attended their school. My recollection was that at least 2 schools asked this type of question.</p>
<p>In addition to the above questions I was also asked a couple hypothetical questions like "if you could be anybody in history who would you be?" Since I'm from Colorado they usually asked a couple questions about that. Every interviewer asked me if I had any siblings and how I get along with them. I think this is to see how you would do in a dorm situation since your dormmates are basically like siblings.
I even wound up talking about stem cell research for 10 minutes at Andover and comparing and contrasting a couple different towns in my state at Taft.</p>
<p>thx everybody - these posts are exactly what I was looking for</p>
<p>please keep them coming!</p>
<p>hey, i'm going to exeter this fall too as a 9th grader
well, i applied to 6 schools [exeter,choate,hotchkiss,lawrenceville>accepted; taft, andover; wait-listed], and all of their interviews were fairly simple, just info about you, what you do in school and out, describe family and activities, etc. etc.</p>
<p>you should try and get an interview on campus [i live in nj, so i had to get off campus for most of the upper new england schools....which i think hurt me pretty bad, since the off campus interviewers can judge unfairly]</p>
<p>umm my advice to you would just to tell the truth, try not to "rehearse" anything unless you are bad with adults or something, and usually they'll kinda try and find out exactly <em>why</em> you want to go to their school. be yourself, because otherwise you'll just be another bland applicant.</p>
<p>also, make sure you take the interview seriously. make sure you watch what you say, because anything offensive/really stupid stuff/makes you look crazy type of stuff is just, bad. personally, my stats were pretty normal for an asian-american, ssat scores below average, but the interview is a huge factor, because it's the admissions only way of knowing what type of person you are</p>
<p>best of luck to you, hope you get accepted</p>
<p>Blee, what did you get on your SSAT score?</p>
<p>lol well i think i'm a pretty bad example, i didn't study for it at all
umm i think i had 2250 or so, but i remember it was 93 percentile</p>
<p>which scared the crap out of me, since a friend i had up there said most koreans were 97-99, but i guess ssats didn't break it for me
[he said caucasians were 90's, some minorty groups were mid 80's]</p>
<p>but i think 95 and above would be a great score to have if you're looking at schools like exeter, andover, lawrenceville, milton, etc.</p>
<p>make sure you study vocab, because it was surprisingly hard and it pretty much brought my score down about 75 points
math should be fine, it's about elementary algebra 1 level, with some really easy geometry</p>
<p>I'm just starting Algebra 1 next year... ahh! (I go to a public school, our seventh grade teacher picked about the top 25% of the grade to put in this class).</p>
<p>In my SSAT Prep book, the vocabulary seems REALLY hard, but in the lower level SSAT, it seems really easy. lol Too bad 8th grade doesn't count as LL. :(</p>
<p>My goal is to get an 85 or higher. I don't want to be overconfident and think I'm going to get a 95%, but I end up with a much lower score.</p>
<p>If the verbal part is not that easy, go to the SSAT website every day. They post an analogies question. You can start to grasp the logic that way.</p>
<p>Thanks, Burb Parent. I've been doing that everyday for the past two months. lol.</p>
<p>Has anyone seen/used Peterson's online SSAT Prep? <a href="http://www.petersons.com/testprep/code/prompt.asp?sponsor=1&test_id=123&referer_type=CC%5B/url%5D">http://www.petersons.com/testprep/code/prompt.asp?sponsor=1&test_id=123&referer_type=CC</a></p>
<p>It's only $20, so I'm thinking about buying it. I think it automatically scores for you, which is good. :)</p>