<p>“And some people’s jobs preclude spending an hour in the middle of the day, trying to find a track star in a huge suburban high school…especially if they are doing it because they thought it would be a nice thing to do for strangers.”</p>
<p>? The student offered two places to meet you in the high school – after YOU offered to meet the student any place where it would be convenient to the student.</p>
<p>If you were concerned about not finding the student in the high school, you could have asked the student to meet you outside the high school’s front door, and you could have exchanged cell phone numbers.</p>
<p>Frankly, I don’t understand your concern. At probably every high school in the country, visitors have to sign in. A front office would be eager to make sure that a college interviewer – one for an Ivy at that – and probably one who came to interview a star student-- easily found the room where they were to meet the student.</p>
<p>In fact, my experience has been that the high school has had someone escort me to where I needed to go.</p>
<p>All of this are things that I would consider common sense especially if one has interviewed for an Ivy for 2 decades as I have.</p>
<p>Wow. If OP annelise was unable to discern the primary (pun intended) point of most of our posts – that she provided wrong information about her time and place availability – I can only surmise that she has likely carried a sense of entitlement all her life. It is a shame really when a person is schooled and their narcissistic defenses do not allow for positive change.</p>
<p>Dear OP,
Don’t leave with a heavy heart. Everyone here is just text on a screen. It’s not that big of a deal. I don’t agree with you, but still I admit this was a tad harsh. Yes, even on my part… Some will say you too were a tad harsh, but my reply to that is, “So two wrongs make a right?” and “Then we’re no better”. </p>
<p>I am your alumni interviewer and I look forward to meeting with you to discuss XYZ school</p>
<p>My availibility is this:</p>
<p>After 6pm weekdays, and at the following locations. I understand this is a narrow window of time, but hopefully, we can find a mutually workable time.</p>
<p>Thank you for your interest in XYZ schhol.
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<p>THEN of the student just suggested the school the OP couold be irked, but as it stands, the applicant is the one who should be irked, IMO</p>
<p>the emails make the interviewer look bad, not the applicant</p>
<p>I do understand how the OP got annoyed, as the words of the applicant seemed to gradually get more arrogant. I think the OP was just trying to be nice by saying that he/she can meet anywhere the applicant is comfortable. But the OP’s reactions to the applicant’s response shows that it is always best to be direct and straightforward towards the applicant. Most of my interviewers told me in the first email where they wanted to meet.</p>