| Mackie45:
I moved this thread as you posted in the NYU/Tisch forum and it is not necessarily about that school.
When you attend a college interview, you should go into it with your own agenda of what you are hoping to get across. You can plug those things into whatever questions you are asked. In fact, the questions you gave as examples are open ended and will allow you to take the opportunity to "sell" whatever your strengths and attributes are. Think about what makes you, "you". By bringing up your strengths, traits, attributes, experiences, you are showing what makes you who you are and how you may differ from the next person. You must sell yourself and let them get to know whatever it is about you that you are hoping they'll find out. Rather than take each question literally, just take whatever the question is and fit in what it is that you are hoping to get across to colleges.
Try to also talk about why you want to attend and how you SPECIFICALLY think you are a good fit for the program. As far as a role model, there is no correct answer. While King and Einstein are OK, the issue is more the "why", not the "who". I think it might be easier or more "real" to pick someone less far removed from your experience but that is not as critical. You need to tie into whomever you pick to something about YOU. The opportunity in that question and in all the questions, is to sell YOU. Let them learn about you. Go into the interview with points you want to make about yourself and what you are hoping they learn about you and plug these points into WHATEVER question you are asked.
Best of luck. Use the chance to let them get to know you a bit. The questions are not meant to be trick ones but are open ended and give you a chance to sell yourself.
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