<p>*During the interview, do I get a lot of chance to talk/ask questions? *</p>
<p>Definitely! It’s more like a “conversation” than any sort of formal question-and-answer session. During my MIT interview last year we spent a lot of time just talking about MIT, what my EC liked/disliked about the school, her research experience there, how her undergrad experience influenced her graduate works, etc. (My EC was really young so it wasn’t intimidating in any way at all.)</p>
<p>During the interview, does the interviewer ask a lot of specific questions?</p>
<p>Most of my interviewers started out with very general questions, then got more specific as I went into details on some of my activities. My MIT interviewer did ask some questions that may be considered specific though, but they were directed towards trying to know me as a person. One of the questions I remembered was “If you’re given a year and as much money and resource as you want, what would you do?”— they’re generally flexible questions like that that you can answer in any way you want :].</p>