<p>We understand that the Jefferson Scholarship committee is not officially affiliated with the university. However, this interview was DD’s second interaction with anything related to UVa. The first was a local Information Session presented by an Admissions Officer. That event was positive, so we were surprised that the interview was such a disaster. DD has not yet been able to visit campus and at this point she is not interested in doing so.</p>
<p>@rebel - DD has had more than a half dozen interviews in the past few months and has enjoyed all the others without exception. The feedback she has received has been uniformly positive and encouraging. She is not political, opinionated or dogmatic in any way. We would also love to hear the other side of the story to understand why this interview went so poorly.</p>
<p>@Moreover - DD would have preferred to have a committee interview so that one individual’s bias would have been mitigated to an extent. Based on your daughter’s experience, however perhaps the scholarship committe’s intent is to observe how the applicant responds when challenged. This seems a dreadful first impression for the intial interview and I question its wisdom. I am curious if other applicants have had interviews that were intentionally confrontational.</p>