<p>I recently went to a NW interview, and it is not really what I expected. It was formal, but unformal. There were too many people all at once, and there was no individual attention. I think that happens with all big schools with a lot of applicants. It only lasted about 30 minutes. Nothing was really out of the ordinary, and I didn't feel that I standed out.</p>
<p>Did any of you have interviews and was it like mine?</p>
<p>mine (for another school) was one on one but nevertheless was only 20-30 min. long. definitely wasn't enough time for everything! i think alot of big schools do that group type interview or just a really succinct one on one. my friend visited WUSTL and her interview lasted only 20 min.. and she felt like she didn't get much attention nevertheless.</p>
<p>I had my northwestern interview last weekend, it lasted roughly 30 min but i felt that was long enough. My alumni was like 70 years old so he didn't have a lot of knowledge on the school and he was a painter by profession, where as I am interested in law. Eventhough my interview was only 30 min I think we covered as much as we could and to my surprise he indicated how well I had done. The interview was very out of the ordinary because we spoke about my plans after collge, rather than why I would be a fit for northwestern. I only interviewed for one other school, at WUSTL and that interview lasted over an hour. I think it depends on the interviewer, my WUSTL interviewer was a freshman, more to talk about than with my geriatric nw interviewer</p>
<p>my interviewer for another school isn't even an alumni, so i couldn't even ask questions i'd hoped to touch upon.</p>
<p>my interview went really well (seems like the anomaly here). we talked for close to an hour. even though she was old she still remembered pretty much everything about Medill and Northwestern (she still talks to her freshman roomate). it was very informal - she talked a lot more than i thought she would. it was more like a conversation more than anything.. she asked me like 3 questions.</p>
<p>I don't see anything online about interviews.</p>
<p><a href="http://ugadm.northwestern.edu/aac_intv/%5B/url%5D">http://ugadm.northwestern.edu/aac_intv/</a></p>
<p>i have my interview coming up this weekend. My interviewer called, and we're meeting at starbucks. So what do you guys think i should expect? long/short? informal/formal?</p>
<p>while it's at a casual hangout location, you should still go for a bit formal, but not too much. my friends have had interviews that were as long as two hours and as short as 20 minutes, it just depends on you and your interviewer.</p>
<p>My interview was at a school where all the alumni were assigned students as they arrived. My interviewer said, "I've never interviewed anyone from School X before, so my impression will be judged based on the next 10 minutes!" and I was thinking, WHAT? ten minutes? But we ended up talking about politics and life and we talked for about 45 minutes.</p>
<p>So I think that it depends from interview from interview.</p>
<p>One thing that was slightly awkward was when the interviewer asked what other schools I applied to... and then he said they had better qualities than northwestern in some aspects and I should go there if I got in.</p>
<p>I couldn't help thinking, But I love Northwestern! So.. much...Aghh! </p>
<p>It was very unexpected. Did anyone else have the interviewer ask where else they applied?</p>
<p>yeah...my interviewer asked where else i applied and i said 3 or 4 other schools. I'm surprised that more interviews didn't last long. I got to my interview pretty early, about 30 mins before it started, and it lasted about an hour after the woman said it would be about 20-30 mins. Did everyone's interivewer come from the school they applied to? I applied to Medill and that's where my interviewer graduated from? I think that's how they set it up.</p>