<p>[Free</a> Fashion Advice for College Interviews, From a $15,000 Consultant - The Choice Blog - NYTimes.com](<a href=“Free Fashion Advice for College Interviews, From a $15,000 Consultant - The New York Times”>Free Fashion Advice for College Interviews, From a $15,000 Consultant - The New York Times)</p>
<p>From those pictures, I’m not impressed with the advice.</p>
<p>Those skirts are too short. The girls would be worrying about the position of their legs rather than the interviewer’s questions. And the guy looks silly.</p>
<p>Whatever happened to business casual?</p>
<p>In my opinion, every young man should own a pair of nice khaki pants and every young woman should own a pair of black dress pants. One wears these garments with a shirt with a collar (guys) or a blouse or sweater that is neither tight nor low-cut (girls) and shoes that are not sneakers (both genders). Simple.</p>
<p>It first struck me when I was in Admissions at Skidmore with one of our kids & I noticed what all the applicants were wearing: jeans, t-shirts, hooded sweatshirts & so on. I turned to my H & said “They don’t dress up for interviews, anymore?” He kind of rolled his eyes & looked at me: “Where have you been, under a rock?” One young man looked like he hadn’t combed his hair for weeks! This article, northeastmom, amusing, think of what we spend on gas, hotels, test fees, application fees, we can leave the fashion up to the applicant!</p>
<p>What’s with the ruffles? Incredibly distracting. I agree with everyone, these clothes are too casual and ugly.</p>
<p>on all college visits son has also either gone to a class or met with someone in honors etc and he has worn khakis and polo but he seems to be the only one that does, most students we have seen are in jeans and t-shirts, even cut off shorts and flip flops…maybe they are just taking tours??</p>
<p>SLUMOM, this article gave me my laugh of the day!</p>
<p>You might want to read some of the comments from those who read the article. The one about getting one thing right is spot on…It talks about how these kids are just screaming let me in and my mommy and daddy have $$ to add a new building on campus! There is something to be said for showing family money, if one has it. If one has 15k for this, plus the money for “designer fashion”, hopefully one has money to donate to the school too, in addition to being a full paying student!</p>
<p>Of course, a lot of kids visiting campuses are not doing formal interviews, so you can expect to see plenty of young people in admissions offices in very casual clothing. There is nothing wrong with this.</p>
<p>But if a real interview is on the schedule, I think kids should look somewhat pulled together and should avoid conspicuous, sexy, or silly clothing. The focus of the conversation should be on the student and the college and whether or not they will be good matches for each other, not on the interviewer avoiding looking at someone’s cleavage or ruffles.</p>
<p>I agree that the comments following the article are worth reading. No one seems persuaded that this is good advice!</p>
<p>Great post NEmom, and I love the comments at the bottom of the article. I read the first page and not one positive among them.</p>
<p>I would like to add many times the applicant is interviewed by a student, not an adult.
So who is there to impress? The secretary at the reception desk?</p>
<p>The lollipop stick in the guy’s mouth is obviously de rigeur. If only we’d known.
:D:D:D:D:D</p>
<p>I thought he was smoking!</p>
<p>What is really sad about this is that some students out there will feel a need to either hire a company to “package them”, and to spend money on outlandish clothes. One comment made at the end of that article is that he/she thought that those pictures were about “what not to do”! I think that having a stick in your mouth certainly fall into the category of what not to do (similar to chewing gum on an interview, IMO).</p>
<p>My S wore cargo shorts, a t-shirt & a hooded sweatshirt for his one & only college interview. It seems to have been a good one as he got admission & significant merit aid. I can’t see either of my kids in any of the clothing featured & wouldn’t be interested in my kids hanging out with anyone dressed like these models–yuck!</p>
<p>I also thought the male was smoking a cigarette. Not sure how great an impression a lollypop makes either. Neither of my kids would EVER purchase or wear such outfits or listen to anyone who suggested them. You’d look WAY out of place in HI wearing those getups!</p>
<p>Does anyone think that anyone is stupid enough to pay this “consultant” $15K? </p>
<p>Of course, all she has to do is find 10 or so desperate idiots and she has a nice living for the year. :rolleyes:</p>
<p>As my grandmother used to say, “A fool and his money are soon parted.”</p>
<p>yes, and my grandmother would say, ‘some folks have more money than sense.’</p>
<p>Jean shorts?</p>
<p>JEAN SHORTS?</p>
<p>I should start a company called Cheap College Advice, charge a flat rate of a couple hundred dollars and then walk people through the basics. I’ve learned so much from cc that is saving me potentially thousands of dollars, but not everyone has the time I do to spend poring over these threads.</p>
<p>I do believe that people would pay this woman $15K. People whose heads are turned because she has Yale on her resume. People with money to burn. People who don’t know any better.</p>
<p>I had ds read the article. He didn’t know what seersucker was. He’ll be sticking with the $7 khakis he just bought at Goodwill.</p>
<p>I did my interview right after a presentation in which I dressed up as a confederate soldier. Didn’t change my outfit and still did fairly well in admissions, I reckon.</p>
<p>^I take it that your interviewer was not an African-American…</p>