<p>I have my interview tomorrow. Its my first one, so I'm a bit nervous. I think I'm pretty well prepared for the questions he'll ask me, but I'm worried about what I should ask him. I've heard it said that asking questions is very important, so any suggestions?</p>
<p>I'm thinking favorite/least favorite things? Is it hard to get to know people from other residential colleges? Is new haven as bad as its rumored to be (i like nearby, and I've always liked it, but I've never had to walk around it at 2 am)? </p>
<p>I feel like those are too generic though. Any other ideas?</p>
<p>yeah those sound good. Um just think about something that really puzzles you about the school. You could ask like i dunno, how good the gym/workout facilities are or something. Anything that you dont know about the school i guess.</p>
<p>ooh, newt, i really like that 2nd one. One of the things that most attracted me to Yale was the close sense of community, so it would be nice to see how that continues past graduation.</p>
<p>I've heard that for some college interviews, it is very lax and very casual. Is it like that for yale's?? ...and Kit, how did you <em>prepare</em> for the interviews?? Wouldn't questions just be like "what do you like to do in your spare time?" or something??
...sorry...obviously I don't know too much about this whole process!!</p>
<p>Good luck!! :) I hope the interview went very well!!</p>
<p>It went pretty well. I was rather nervous going in, because it was my first (and hopefully only) interview. The guy was really nice, we went to his living room and just conversed for an hour. We talked about my work, school, church, student gov., and all the other things I do. He asked me what I like to do for fun when I'm not doing these things, and I said that to me, these things are fun, but I also like to read a lot, and just relax with my friends and such. At the end, I told him that I'd been a bit nervous, and he said "Well, you passed. Now I have to go write them a letter telling them they'd be crazy not to take you" which was encouraging until he said "so many people from your school applied early. In this whole region of Connecticut, there was 38 early applicants, and 10 were from your school." Eeep! Hopefully, since I go to such a homogenous school, they'll decide to take 1 girl, 1 boy, and 1 minority :-D (I'm the only one applying. Well, I assume I am. I can identify 9/10, myself included, but I can't think of any others who would)</p>
<p>No, my region. It includes Fairfield, Weston, Wilton, Norwalk, New Canaan, possibly Greenwich and some others. I think it might be the entire county, which, along with some great public schools, also has at least 5 really top private schools. </p>
<p>btw, I go to Staples High School (local public school) in Westport, Ct.</p>
<p>I'm glad your interview went well. Did you ever end up asking him any questions?
I don't think it's that unusual for so many kids to apply to a great college when they are from such nearby schools. We live about 6 miles from Harvard and there are at least that many every year that apply there. Likewise MIT.</p>