<p>Well, I just got some mail from an Alumni at Princeton University who wants to have an interview with me. I'm 99% sure I won't be going there and I do not want to interview at all. I don't really have anytime to do so. Does anyone here have any ideas on how to politely refuse an interview without looking like a complete ********************** to Princeton?</p>
<p>Decline politely. Two possibilities: You would rather not interview or that time is a major issue. Why don't you just rescind your application if you don't want to go there?</p>
<p>Tell them you'll do one, but tell the interviewer you're busy for all the times he tells you he's free. If (s)he asks you when you're free, tell him you checked your calendar and it's so full of amazing and awe-inspiring extracurriculars for the next month and a half that it just doesn't look like you'll be able to squeeze one in at all at this point. =P Maybe ask if (s)he wants to do it over email.</p>
<p>Politely tell them you've decided to attend another school; it's very common. But if you don't want to go there, what do you care what they think?</p>
<p>do the interview. if nothing else, it will be good practice for future interviews.</p>
<p>P.S.
don't burn a bridge you don't even have access to. how about you decide whether or not you want to go to Princeton after/if you get accepted? you might as well since you've already paid the application fee. are you 99% sure that you won't be going there because you doubt you'll be able to get in or because you are already going somewhere else?</p>
<p>I doubt i will be able to get in. Like reallly doubt it, like I messed up on my SAT 2s so bad it's not even funny :(</p>
<p>So what? They're just a fraction of what you have to offer.</p>
<p>If you absolutely don't intend to go to Princeton, why don't you simply withdraw your application? Leaving it in the pool wastes the Admissions Committee's time.</p>
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i had a feeling it had to do with something like that. i think the best thing you could do is not shoot yourself in the foot more by not interviewing. even if it doesn't work out at least you did everything you could do to get in.</p>
<p>Do you not think you are getting in, or do you not want to go there. If it is the first, take the interview, you never know. If you don't want to go, withdraw the app.</p>
<p>^^ agreed.</p>
<p>My friend refused her interview for UPenn but she was accepted(early decision). She said she refused because she knew it will hurt her(she's very shy).</p>
<p>You should just withdraw your application if you know you aren't going. It won't be fair to others.</p>
<p>If you really don't want to go there, withdraw your application. Don't waste the time of the interviewers and please don't play games and waste the time of the busy alum who is volunteering as interviewers. If you don't want to withdraw your app, just politely decline the interview and let the alum know that you've decided to go elsewhere. This isn't going to break the interviewer's heart as the person probably was going out of their way to make the time to talk to you.</p>
<p>lol, i would definitely go if i got in....i talked with the interviewer on the phone and worked everything out. I didn't have the interview but we talked for like 20 minutes on the phone and he was appreciative of taking time out of my day to talk to him for a few minutes..i guess it's all good.</p>