<p>So my best friend had her interview yesterday at a bookstore. Her dad dropped her off, and had told her, “wow, its packed, best of luck with seating.” There was not a lot of seating, so her and her interviewer sat in the Children’s section.</p>
<p>I told her and her mom some tips, because I had interviewed for schools before- and to come to pick her up until at least 45 minutes afterward, but stay in the car, and possibly be prepared to wait. Parents should not really go in with their kid for college interviews.</p>
<p>SO, her mom completely ignored what I said. She barges into the store after 30mins and doesnt even look to see where her daughter could be interviewing. She didn’t thoroughly scan the whole store and she starts freaking out. Her mother called me, and asked me if I heard from her daughter. I told her, she is prolly still interviewing, and quietly look through the whole store.
Instead, she called a Code Adam. Meaning the store gets locked down to find my friend.
She is 18.
So a sales associate finds my friend and brings her mother to her. Her mom is crying and screaming and told her, how do you know this guy isn’t a rapist.
The interview did not continue after that. </p>
<p>What should my friend do, besides call and apologize. Should she ask for a possibility to continue the interview?</p>
<p>No she shouldn’t. No offense, to anyone involved, but a paranoid mother cannot be one’s excuse for demanding more of an interviewer’s time especially when it’s an informal, largely non-evaluative and optional session. It would be unfair both to her interviewer and to other applicants in your area who might not have been offered an interview yet. As ridiculous as this entire situation seems to me, the only smart thing to do might be to call in order to apologize and to ask politely if he had any other questions planned before paranoid mum interrupted, offering to answer over the phone.</p>
<p>This story has to go in the Hall of Fame for college interviews gone bad.</p>
<p>I am sure once adcom found out about it, they would think twice about admitting a girl with a crazy mom. I actually feel bad for the interviewer, must have been very embarrassing.</p>
<p>I would email/call the interviewer, apologize and see where it goes. If the interviewer asks for another interview, DEFINITELY go, but if he/she does not, then I would just let it be. Also, a overprotective mom won’t hurt your friends chances and in fact may help them. Often times applicants are unable to put down parent problems in an application as they don’t want to come of as whiny but if the interviewer saw this mom have a panic attack or what not than he may put down that it seems like her daughter has overcome some type of adversity and/or is independent. This of course requires the other aspects of the interview to back that part up.</p>
<p>I’m sorry golfer3, but your rationality is way too stretched. Admissions officers are hardened to the piles of sob stories they receive each year from kids who’ve overcome ‘real’ adversities - life-threatening diseases, abject poverty, death of loved ones. If overcoming a paranoid and overprotective mother is an adversity, then the dog eating your homework would be a travesty of biblical proportions. And more often than not, an overprotective relationship between parent and child is a two-way process that requires at least subconscious participation by the child as well.</p>
<p>Actually, I think srrinath has a point. Brown saw a large boost of applicants, ergo I can see why re-interviewing would not work out and technically be unfair…</p>
<p>While it is not my friends fault that her mother did this to her, It would also be unfair to put a strain on this areas Brown interviewer. It isnt his job to reschedule everything when someones interview gets screwed up.</p>
<p>Furthermore, I dont think an overprotective parent could be a serious adversity in this case. While different things effect everyone differently, Im sure this situation pales in comparison to the gravity of others.</p>
<p>I referring to certain posters who are obviously in high school and pose as admissions experts online. One of those traits all too common in young people…they know everything!</p>
<p>srrinath, this is an open forum and you are not posting anything offensive. Please continue to share your opinions. We are smart enough to decide on our own if they are useful or not.</p>