<p>You mean the group interviews? I'm pretty sure the topics change (and I don't remember the topics from mine anyway). It isn't the sort of thing you have to prepare for. It's just a chance for them to watch the team communicate and work together.</p>
<p>I must note that the PR rankings are very unscientific, based on a very small population sample, so they are not the most reliable source. I often hear of students planning to prank/rig them every year.</p>
<p>Olin's rankings are certainly based on an especially small population sample, but they aren't rigged.</p>
<p>True, but I must also add that the entire measure of the PR rankings is student response to the PR questionnaire. Now, when a school is brand new, like Olin, many times its students have extra high school spirit. I sense that school spirit in Oliners very much. Make no mistake, I think Olin is a fine, fine school. However, perhaps the students are highly biased, even for a typical college student, because of how their school is new and fresh, and thus they have fresh spirit and pride in the school. Again, I repeat, Olin is a fine, fine school, but all those excellent PR rankings need to be taken with a grain of salt.</p>
<p>The subjective PR rankings shouldn't be taken as gospel at any school, but I maintain that at Olin the only real reason to doubt them is sample size.</p>
<p>As far as enthusiasm goes, isn't it good that students are enthusiastic? If the partners who are on their 5th year (because they took part in a planning and experimentation year prior to their freshman year) are still enthusiastic about Olin, then that's a pretty lasting enthusiasm.</p>
<p>There are a few threads on the Olin board, including one about a great video of life at Olin, prepared by a senior student there.</p>