<p>just curious. i still can't get over the terrible interview i had.</p>
<p>also, will a generic, boring, obviously sugar-coated interview report hurt you badly?</p>
<p>Not all interviews are evaluative. If it was, then ask yourself whether adcoms looking at your transcript, gpa/rank, standardized test scores, essays, GC rec, and teacher recs are going to decide your fate on a interview done by a volunteer alum. Well, the answer may be yes because the competition is that insane, but the only way you can probably really screw up the interview is by being anti-social. These possibilities are arrogant, extreme shyness to the point of not being able to speak, and drooling.</p>
<p>self-absorbed, confident, and non-engaging</p>
<p>my interviewer....it was for an ivy....
Old, old, old</p>
<p>well....i kinda expecated a fresh graduate and they gave me an OLdd guy who graduated like twenty years ago! huh......try being frenly and a lil' informal with him now..you have to maintain that respectful tone to a higher level!!</p>
<p>Harvard...old, a little arrogant, and really...intense. I told her I loved Jane Austen and she quizzed me on every single Austen book. Thank god I read them all.</p>
<p>Yale...young, pretty nice, but a little boring. She didn't really initiate conversation, and I had to do all of the work. Though I suppose that's what I'm supposed to do.</p>
<p>USC...very nice, funny, and young. I had actually met him before, so it was pretty cool. He was really into what I was saying, and has been helping me through my application process.</p>
<p>yale: young, nice, has good ears.</p>
<p>What is the point of interviewing?</p>
<p>To shine, dear.</p>
<p>how much do the alumni interviews matter really? i was just mad because my interview for my top choice was good, but not great. The interviewer was just a little awkward, I didn't get to say everythign I wanted to. It was by no means bad, but it just wasn't stellar.</p>
<p>^^....alumni interviews do matter!
misoobishi......like u said.....my fren's MIT interviewer was a little same too.
My fren actually LIED about a small event that his club organized (he said that the event was a 5 day megaevent....whereas in reality it was just a 4 hour talk program!)....the interviewer asked him what happened in each and every day......and when he couldn't answer.....the interviewer got em'!!
Yaa...my fren withdrew his app from MIT after that..
Interviews matter in his case....but usually the thing is that interviews play NO role...neither +ve...neither -ve.</p>
<p>IMO the point of interviewing is to make sure that you are not completely unacceptable in person. The people who are in trouble on the interviews are the ones who are arrogant SOB's or something like that. Other than that, I don't think it counts that much. It is also something for the alumni to do. Colleges like to have involved alumni. It means money. A third reason is that it gives the applicants an opportunity to ask questions. A fourth reason is that it is a way of showing or not showing interest in the college.</p>
<p>sorry......neither +ve NOR -ve</p>
<p>how does involved alumni mean money??</p>
<p>MIT - young, hot, chill ;)</p>
<p>That Cornell interview was a waste of 30 minutes.</p>
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<p>Happy involved alumni donate money to the college. I don't just mean the people who are doing the interviews. If you have a national organization of alumni organizations that have events and do things together such as where the alumni will go to a baseball game together, then you will get more money than not. The alumni network of admissions interviewers contributes to this. Once you graduate, you get stuff in the mail all the time from you alma mater asking for donations and information about the alumni events. This is not a bad thing, of course.</p>
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That would make the guy about 42. If he were twice his age, I'd consider him quite old.</p>
<p>42 is not old. mine were 50 and 51.</p>
<p>Yale: sexy, sexy, and ...sexy.</p>
<p>jk.</p>
<p>laid back, casual, funny.</p>