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kaka22 · 01-24-2007, 01:46 AM

Thanks for all the great advice AA!

My interviewer told me that interviews usually last only 30 minutes and the longest she's ever done has been 45 minutes. Is this normal? I have a whole long list of things I would like to talk about and I don't know if it be covered in 30 minutes! I do understand that I'm not supposed to dictate the interview, but I figured that if conversation flowed well, the interview would probably go over 30 (and 45) minutes. On the Yale 2011 Facebook group, several of the early acceptances stated that their interviews ran from 1.5-2 hours! I'm just worried that my interviewer's report to Yale may not be as complete/enthusiastic as it could have been had I been assigned to an interviewer more inclined to talk.

Oh, and AA, great reference to Heart of Darkness there! I finished reading it a while ago and it was such a great novel!

01-24-2007, 01:46 AM	#67
kaka22 New Member Join Date: Jan 2007 Posts: 14	Thanks for all the great advice AA! My interviewer told me that interviews usually last only 30 minutes and the longest she's ever done has been 45 minutes. Is this normal? I have a whole long list of things I would like to talk about and I don't know if it be covered in 30 minutes! I do understand that I'm not supposed to dictate the interview, but I figured that if conversation flowed well, the interview would probably go over 30 (and 45) minutes. On the Yale 2011 Facebook group, several of the early acceptances stated that their interviews ran from 1.5-2 hours! I'm just worried that my interviewer's report to Yale may not be as complete/enthusiastic as it could have been had I been assigned to an interviewer more inclined to talk. Oh, and AA, great reference to Heart of Darkness there! I finished reading it a while ago and it was such a great novel!
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