Alumni Interviews for ED Applicants?

craisins4lyfe
Fri, 19 Nov 2010 03:20:01 +0000

stalkermama - i guess i wouldn’t necessarily say it went badly. my interviewer was really nice, she lived in upstate new york as a child, and she said that she’d give me a positive recommendation. however, thinking about it afterwards, i feel like i was so nervous that i rambled about stuff not particularly related to whatever the topic at hand was, wasn’t very articulate, and maybe seemed a bit over-energetic or even obnoxious. also, her saying that she’d give me a positive recommendation seems like it could’ve been something she says (kindly) to everyone.

i could be being a bit hyper-self-critical, as i often am in retrospect, but mostly i just felt that i needed to have a really excellent interview to set me apart with my lackluster rank etc., and i wish it had gone better. on the other hand, there wasn’t anything totally horrible about it, not really enough to have a negative impact, although i did have one kind of painful gaffe when she asked me what my weaknesses as a student are and i replied, honestly but probably not very wisely, timeliness and organization (i did go on to explain that the timeliness thing is related to my perfectionism/obsessiveness with certain assignments, but she did seem to take note of that). i dunno. we’ll see what happens, i didn’t have a very good chance of getting in anyway.