<p>at the end of my interview, the lady said "You know, if you don't get into (blank school) it's not the end of the world. there are many opportunities. You don't need to go to (blank school) to get a good education. blah blah"</p>
<p>does this mean she doesn't think I'm going to get in?</p>
<p>maybe i'm overanalyzing?</p>
<p>No, she's just interviewing for a highly selective school... in which not all qualified applicants will get in. :)</p>
<p>What school?</p>
<p>She must think you either
A. Love the school A LOT and she is just trying to warn you
B. Are under-qualified and need to prepare for rejection</p>
<p>Don't worry either way...the interviewer doesn't make any admissions decisions, she's just giving her personal opinion/judgment</p>
<p>wow, one word comes to mind. "owned"</p>
<p>Don't worry about it. I got the same warnings from my Duke interviewer and now I'm at the school.</p>
<p>they want to be sure they don't give the impression you are in, so maybe they go the other direction a bit, so you don't put all your eggs in one basket</p>
<p>haha wannabazn88, it was at duke. hopefully the same outcome will come for me!!</p>
<p>I used to say that to all students whom I interviewed because virtually all were wonderful, outstanding students, and I knew that the odds of admission to Harvard were long for everyone, and I wanted to see those students at least apply widely enough to get into some excellent college.</p>
<p>I stopped saying it, though, because students seemed to be thinking that I was telling them that they were losers who'd flubbed the interview, which wasn't at all my point. I knew that no matter how outstanding they were, they still had slim odds of getting into Harvard because of the overabundance of excellent applicants.</p>