<p>Late last week I had my Yale interview, and my interview did not go very well. My interviewer was a professor at the local university, and this is how it went.</p>
<p>I walked into his office and greeted him, but he didn’t shake my hand. We was in sweats, and the room was extremely disorganized–he had to spend some time clearing stacks of junk out of the way just so I would have somewhere to sit down. Prior to the interview, via email, he had asked me to send him a word document with something similar to a resume on it, and he started the interview by asking the same thing he had asked me to write in the document: “What do you consider your greatest high school achievement/s?” So I talked to him about it, and after briefly mentioning just one or two things, he cut me off to ruminate over his experience at Yale. Then, “Any questions for me?” I had worked hard to prepare some legitimate questions, so I asked them, but he dismissed all of them with vague, "Ohhh, it doesn’t reeeaally matter…"s. When I tried to bring up Yale itself, and why I wanted to go there in particular, he cut me off to talk about how I’ll be happy no matter where I end up and I shouldn’t care about where I go.</p>
<p>That was the only question he ended up asking me, because a mere fifteen minutes later I found myself dispelled from his office with a, “Mmmmokkaaay, that about does it, I think. Yeah…I’ve got some other stuff…mmm-hhmmm.” Throughout the interview (if you could call it that), he made it exceedingly clear that he had not so much as opened the document I had sent him (which he had requested himself), and he showed no interest in me as an applicant. I left feeling as though there would be no way in the world he would be able to write anything about me at all in his write-up; the guy barely said hello before trailing off and wrapping up the “interview”. </p>
<p>It was not an exchange of information, nor an engaging conversation–nothing an interview is supposed to be. It was so disappointing, and very concerning. I ended the brief conversation feeling chastised, bewildered, and alarmed.</p>
<p>Last summer, when I visited campus, I had an interview in the admissions office with a current student. Bearing this, and all of the above, in mind, do you think I have a reason to worry? How should I handle this situation? My interviewer was so disorganized, I’m concerned his report won’t even make it to the school–and if it does, it will most likely be dreadful!</p>
<p>Advice? Consolation? Anyone else have a similar experience?</p>