<p>How long was everyone's Princeton interview? Mine lasted 2.5 hours, while my others tended to last more like one half hour to an hour. Is this the norm for Princeton or was my interviewer just interested in me?</p>
<p>Mine's was about 2 hours; the typical interview is supposed to be about 45 minutes</p>
<p>mine was about 2-3 hours</p>
<p>It depends on the interviewer. If they interview for companies or similar, it will probably be shorter.</p>
<p>Mine was only 40 minutes; the guy came to my school to interview everyone who was applying, so none of us had much time.</p>
<p>Daughter's was just over an hour.</p>
<p>2 hours and a bit</p>
<p>1.5 and a bit, and that at a company, so yay! :D</p>
<p>15 min.This young guy said he's very busy,phoned(asked for my permission first!!!!)re a later appt during the interview.
Hope his view counts for nothing in the adm process.</p>
<p>This has me worried - mine was less than 45 minutes. I don't know - perhaps shorter interviews are the norm in Malaysia, since my Yale interview was scheduled to last precisely one hour. I would really have liked a longer interview. :(</p>
<p>aprox 1 hour</p>
<p>mine was a very busy guy who is the CEO of a fortune 100 company...so he didnt have a lot of time. it went for about 45 min</p>
<p>I'm having my interview in a little less than an hour.
My interviewer told me in advance that it would probably last for an hour. This is his first year interviewing, though, and so he's kind of already admitted that he's "new to the process" and is still "testing the waters." So maybe the fact that it's only going to be an hour is OK?</p>
<p>Mine was about an hour. It was ridiculously casual. We hardly mentioned college at all... mostly we talked about movies and how we're both procrastinators.</p>
<p>My interviewer told me that it would be about half an hour, but it ended up being closer to two hours. We had a really good conversation, so I'm hoping they'll take it into account.</p>
<p>I just had mine...a little over an hour. I was panicky because I was 5 minutes late but he ended up being like 10-15 minutes late so luckily that worked out. The first twenty minutes of the interview I was staring directly into the sun (we were sitting outside) and I probably looked either a) really angry or b) as if I were crying while discussing my extremely meaningful ECs from my eyes watering up from so much sun.</p>
<p>Finally he offered to switch places with me though, which was nice.
Sorry, random interview anecdote.</p>
<p>j07, that might be a bad thing that you had an interview that was new. My interviewer (who worked at princeton for a bit) told me that more experienced interviewer's reports are taken into consideration much more. Mine was 1:15ish, I don't remember.</p>
<p>My D had a hard time reaching her interviewer, who never got back to her. Finally, yesterday some guy called her who was kind of rude and asked her, "Are you still interested in applying to Princeton?" She had everything in, and had left voicemails for the interviewer and wasn't getting a response. She told him so. He replied, "Well, I know you are busy, but it is getting down to the wire", as though it was HER fault!
ANyway, rudeness aside, he told her that "We are starting to review applications next week so you really have to get this done asap." So here's my question: Wouldn't they be going to COMMITTEE this week? I am sure that regionals have already chosen the applicants from their region to bring to committee by now, or else what have they been doing since January 1st, right? I am wondering if this random guy called on Saturday because her application was chosen to go to committee and was discovered to not have had the interview yet. (Grasping at straws, I know, but it does seem logical.)</p>
<p>My interviewer said that he had lost my sheet, but remembered to call when Princeton asked if he had set up an interviewer. I believe that Princeton has a more diffuse system than other colleges. It gives more independence to the interviewers, but sometimes things like that happen. I wouldn't worry too much, as all indications say that the interview is not that important in the scheme of the application.</p>
<p>I agree. They were pretty determined at the last minute though, because the original interviewer was from our area, (Boston) and when she never got back to DD, then this guy from Princeton calls, and ends up assigning a woman from Washington DC to do the phone interview.</p>