<p>D just came home from her interview. She was very positive and upbeat about the whole experience. She said that it was less question and answer but more like a conversation. No trick questions were involved. D felt that connected very well and truly like the interviewer.</p>
<p>I haven’t had my interview yet, but I wonder if any interviewer gave anyone an indication of their chances of being admitted?</p>
<p>OH shoot, I brought my resume to my interview but I never showed it to the guy… is it generally good to show them your resume or better to just leave it in your pocket unless they ask you for it?</p>
<p>^ Same for me. Best to only provide it if they ask. There are quite a few people who think highschoolers with “resumes” are presumptuous so it’s better to be safe</p>
<p>I’m kind of nervous cause my interviewer is the managing director of a large investment corporation and has gotten a BA at Stanford and Harvard, respectively. He has also studied in London as both a Marshall and Fullbright Scholar. Does/Has anyone else have/had interviewers who are very high-profile and successful people? Did the interviews go well? I’m afraid he might be condescending or belittling of me because he is so successful (Even had an assistant email me for the interview).</p>
<p>Is it weird/completely inappropriate to ask the interviewer what they think your chances for admission are?</p>
<p>Sorry. MA at Harvard</p>
<p>Please don’t ask the interviewer what your chances are. He or she does not know any better than you do unless they are sure you have no chance at all - and you don’t want to hear that, do you?</p>
<p>Hey guys,
I just scheduled an interview with an alumni… Its going to be this friday and since I am an international I had to contact him myself and ask for one. It seemed to me through his emails that he isnt actually really familiar with the process himself, and he hasnt told me to bring anything along such as a resume. Do you think I should? Or would he have mentioned it if necessary? Cause I assume he must have some sort of interview guideline, right?</p>
<p>shwin - I think that you could have a great or terrible interviewer regardless of their education or job. The vast majority of the comments I read or remembered on this thread were positive experiences. Be confident in yourself and you should be fine.</p>
<p>ecneics - In D’s interview a variation on “chances” came up. The interviewer mentioned how she finds it hard to predict. That there have been applicants she was sure that would get in that did not and visa versa. She has been doing this 12 years so she does have experience to speak of. With that in mind, what would be the point of putting them on the spot and asking your chances.</p>
<p>complicated - You could always have a resume with you and ask if he would like it. D has brought one to every interview. Some will not even touch it. Others have used it as a tool in the interview.</p>
<p>I do Harvard alumnae interviews. I would not try to estimate a student’s chances. The first student I ever interviewed just amazed me: incredible stats, very involved, very bright, wonderful personality. She was a foreign born citizen who had lived in three countries and spoke at least three language fluently. Board scores were in the high 700’s. She didn’t get in. Yikes!</p>
<p>When my H and I do interviews, we do tell students that it’s very hard to get in, remind them of the low admissions rates, and tell that that it’s hard to predict. We do tell them that many qualified students are denied - it’s no reflection on the student.</p>
<p>@ BaystateNutmeg…if i have not been contacted for an interview yet and applied back at the beginning of December…should i be worried. Will i still be offered an interview?</p>
<p>My interview went pretty well (I think). I was invited to her (alumna) house, and we talked almost two hours. She was such a nice person and showed me some books that I might be interested in 
I knew that I had almost no chance to get in Harvard when I submitted my apps, but that interview was worth the application fee that I paid :D</p>
<p>I had mine today. I think it lasted an hour and fifteen minutes or so. He was really nice, but he kept pressing me about career ambitions which I didn’t really have an answer to. Also made a joke about Yale outta nowhere 
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<p>I didn’t give him a resume or anything and we only briefly went over extracurriculars, but it was a pretty good conversation as a whole. I doubt he was “blown away” but eh, what can 'ya do.</p>
<p>^</p>
<p>yeah I don’t get it… why does Harvard consider career goals so important?</p>
<p>I had my interview today. He complicated me on my “numbers” and told me that admissions is basically a crapshoot. And that’s the truth a lot of the time. There’s no way your interviewer will know whether you’ll get in.</p>
<p>Shwincity117: Don’t be intimidated at the person’s position. Being an interviewer is a volunteer effort and he/she derives pleasure from helping students and the alma mater. It shouldn’t be scary</p>
<p>I just had it at my school today! It was about an hour long. Overall it flowed a whole lot better than the MIT interview. This Alumni was at least 60, so I think you know what I want to say about him. He asked basic questions, which was why the conversation went on so well. Seem to me he doesn’t remember Harvard that well and the only thing he emphasized was the reading load at Harvard. I am immigrant, so he kept asking if I can handle the reading at Harvard and am I a fast reader. Later, he saw me reading score on the ACT and it was a 32(I know it isn’t that high), so he was like " oh ok you can read."(basically what he intended to say). I asked a few interesting questions too, and the conversation ended. I would say the guy I had for MIT interview was way more better than this guy, but he asked few hard questions and it was my first interview, so I wasn’t prepared.</p>
<p>one of my friends had an interview and when the guy asked him about his career goals he said “i want to be the president of the united states.”</p>
<p>the interviewer was like – “oh really. haha. so, truly though, what do you want to do?”</p>
<p>and my friend was like – “be president of the united states.”</p>
<p>the interviewer was like – “yea, you’re probably not gonna get into harvard.”</p>
<p>my friend didn’t get into harvard. he went to princeton though. i don’t think he really wanted to go to harvard so he kinda blew off the interview because his padres wanted him to go there. but i thought it was pretty funny. basic advice: don’t be stupid.</p>
<p>ok so i’m meeting my interviewer at a st louis bread company (known as panera outside of the STL, similar to a mcallisters deli or… well its sorta like a starbucks but with a bigger emphasis on food rather than coffee…) anyway i suddenly realized, “should i order food or something, or just a drink, or nothing at all?!”</p>
<p>what do i do?? im thinking just get like a drink but idk. seriously there’s so many details!!!</p>