<p>so basically, people at my school generally know who the interviewers for several ivies are in my general area. many people from my school have applied to college X (noone ever gets into any ivies and so its funny, but it doesnt hurt to hope), and so i know our areas interviewer for college X as someone who has had 2 children pass through my school. </p>
<p>now, im the captain of quiz bowl at my school. my area is limited in terms of significant ec opportunities, and so quiz bowl is my main ec. my main basis of saying i contributed to it is that in 2 years weve gone from dead last to almost winning under changes ive made. now, the problem is, that we used to be really good, but then the interviewers daughter was fairly negligent during her term as captain. and so her senior year (my freshman year) was the year when we did our absolute worst, when wed randomly have meetings every now and then and it was bad. we made a big deal about it at the time because she said she didnt want to focus on it because she and the interviewer apparently thought it would be more beneficial to her to spend money and effort in her attempts to help disadvantaged people in our area and whatnot. </p>
<p>the problem is that the interviewer was insanely involved in her daughters activities (apparently she really cared about quiz bowl too at the time). as far as im concerned, she probably recognizes me as someone from that team. im trying to be able to make my case that ive played the biggest role in getting our team back on track but trying not to offend them in any way possible. how should i approach the interview as a result?</p>