<p>Featured discussion, so flattered.</p>
<p>I've been doing alumni interviews for a few years. I like to see the resume. It gives me a few things to ask questions about. And, I like it in advance, so I can prepare with a couple of questions.</p>
<p>I don't think it is necessarily good or bad to have grades/SAT scores -- we're not supposed to be making a judgment about the interviewee's academic competence. I would hope the focus of the resume would be on things that I could talk with you about. Nonetheless, a comment on human nature may be in order. If your grades/scores are really good, they are likely to favorably influence the interviewer's perceptions about you (without their necessarily being conscious of the influence) unless you are really dull in person, in which case the contrast could be pretty harmful.</p>
<p>It's fine to bring resume to an interview. If the interviewer doesn't want to use it, that's also fine, but many interviewers are like me and find it helpful to use a resume to get a quick overview of the applicant so as to be able to use the limited time to go into depth on the more interesting aspects of the applicant instead of having to spend 10 mins. or so getting basic info.</p>
<p>Fine, too, to put gpa/test scores on the resume. That particularly is helpful to Harvard alumni interviewers since Harvard asks the interviewers to obtain that info (presumably so that interviewers have some factual basis for ranking applicants on their intelligence, one of the characteristics that interviewers are asked to rate the applicants on).</p>
<p>i just had an interview with a college and it went extremely well. i didn't bring a resume. the interview was fairly informal and they had a form i had to fill out anyway where i could list my accomplishments, but the man barely even looked at them. it was more like a conversation than an interview.</p>
<p>like i said, it went extremely well. he even remembered my name afterward.</p>
<p>bring one if you want, but depending on how the college conducts its interviews, i wouldn't shove it in every person’s face.</p>
<p>Just got back from driving DS to an interview at the Marshall School of Business at USC. He said it went very well, as he met the interviewer last spring during a tour (and she remembered him).</p>
<p>Brought: Resume, a printout of the press coverage on his major EC (have to say this was the deciding factor on booking an interview -- this is good stuff they would not otherwise see), transcript, test scores. She took it all and it was a good springboard for discussion.</p>
<p>Wore: Slacks, dress shirt and tie. Originally thought the tie may be too much, but in retrospect thought it was good.</p>
<p>I think the interviewer may be the difference. College students, parents, and alums often are the interviewers. In most cases, those interviewers do not see your stats, and don't need to. Their purpose is to answer questions for the student and also find out how interested the student is in the particular school, while also highlighting areas that may be of interest to the student. I don't believe personal academics are discussed in those interviews. </p>
<p>On the other hand, if the interview is with the college admissions staff, that might be completely different. </p>
<p>My son was interviewed by a senior student, and it was more of a comfortable discussion, giving my son the opportunity to ask questions and show his interest. I have interviewed students and it was the same.</p>
<p>Ok, I just read the above posts, and it definitely depends on the school!</p>
<p>My alumni interviewer told me not to bring one.</p>
<p>USC was with an admissions director, and all brought material was appreciated. I don't think it could ever hurt to have a resume, if only to put your best-and-brightest accomplishments to one page in your mind. It needs to be a seat-of-the-pants decision wether to offer it up or not. I just fear the awkward pause of "what are we going to say next?" and think it's good to have a card up your sleeve, so to speak.</p>
<p>For what it's worth, I didn't bring mine and it didn't seem to hurt me at all. You're going to submit it with your application anyway, so why give more things to have stuffed in your file? MHC doesn't expect them from applicants at interviews (same for my other colleges), nor does it make any real difference. As long as you know yourself and can talk about what's on that r</p>
<p>I just got back from driving s to an admissions interview in Chicago with an admissions counselor from Case Western. My son mentioned that the first thing this admissions counselor did was ask him if this was his first interview. S said yes and so the counselor explained the whole process to him - why interviews are good, what type of questions s should ask, and what type of answers he should give (yes and no answers are not good!). Since s hasn't yet applied to Case, he took along a resume and transcript, but was never asked for them, so he didn't pass them along. We owe a big thank you to this very kind admissions officer from Case who took the time to really build up some confidence in my s by taking away the mystery of it all.</p>
<p>As an aside, I dropped my son at the door of the hotel and waited outside in the car for him. The mother of the boy who interviewed before us went into the interview with her son. Is that typical?</p>
<p>^^
Yikes, I don't think mommy going in with you is a good idea. I drove to L.A. with my son, but wandered about campus until he was done.</p>
<p>I brought them to all my interviews. Sometimes the interviewer would set them aside purposefully, saying "Thanks, I'll hang onto it and read it/put it in your file later, but I don't like to look at these during interviews in case it affects how I see you".
Some (less experienced?) interviewers really enjoyed looking at them. At safety schools it changes to tone from interrogation of you to trying to convince you of how great the school is, which takes a lot of the pressure off of you :)</p>
<p>what should you put in the college resume?</p>
<p>^I simply listed my activities, awards, honors, etc. and the years I participated or received such. Also add work experience, if you have it. =)</p>
<p>For my three interviews (Conn, Wes and Smith), I brought along a copy of my transcript and resume, and gave them to the senior/adcom at the beginning of my interview. They seemed to appreciate it.</p>