<p>Thanks for all the advice everyone! I feel much more comfortable now with my upcoming interview!</p>
<p>My interviewer just emailed me and suggested the next Tuesday (2/24) as a date for my interview. What has me worried is that he is an English professor at a local college and my English for someone who was born in this country is on the poor side. The SAT backs this up as somehow I always do worse on the reading part.</p>
<p>sorry for bringing back this old-ish thread :)</p>
<p>my interviewer told me NONE of the people she’s interviewed in the last 15 YEARS has gotten in (about 50+!!!) 
otherwise it was great, though :)</p>
<p>sometimes i wonder how important these interviews are.</p>
<p>For some reason I still haven’t been contacted for an interview. Should I call them up or something?</p>
<p>My interview (which I just got back from) was ok, not terrific but not terrible. I had a few odd questions, though – among other things, I was asked to defend anthropogenic climate, solve the global economic crisis, solve the US recession, create a means by which climate change could be feasibly averted – namely in how the poorer nations might be involved, and improve the driving skills of my interviewer by sharing how he might hypermile better.</p>
<p>Oh, and he had a degree in economics, so every step of the way he was poking holes in my impromptu arguments, which I tried to patch up but did so imperfectly, so in the end it was a wee bit leaky.</p>
<p>Lasted 2+ hours.</p>
<p>^ That actually sounds like something that could be really fun (if it wasn’t in a situation where you were being evaluated)</p>
<p>Moodrets your interview sounds very similar to mine. I know we live in the same city so I wouldn’t be surprised if we had the same interviewer haha.</p>
<p>Mine was 2.5 hours, and I was also asked to solve the U.S. Recession and explain Reconstruction in U.S. History, to which I started, “Well that was in the 1930s…WAIT, post-civil war!” (fail…). Of course he didn’t ask me to explain Markovnikov’s rule or the major plotlines in Shakespeare’s The Tempest, things that I know really well.</p>
<p>Mine was borderline catastrophic. Got asked about 2008’s notable global affairs and that was fine. I went on about Obama’s election (even though i’d have voted McCain) and economic downturn. THEN, the interviewer asked about notable events in my own country and I started stuttering -__- I came up with some lame excuses and said some crap i couldn’t even recall. Sigh</p>
<p>Ahahaha, yes! I know! I wish he could have asked me things that I have experience debating (ie, anything in philosophy – metaphysics, ethics, epistemology, the like – also, I’d have done really well on any non-fiscal political issue, but noooooo, he just had to have me determine US fiscal policy, eh). I’ve never really bothered to study economics in depth, so I could have done quite better with a topic I had greater familiarity with.</p>
<p>Oh, and *climate change</p>
<p>Yeah I’m afraid I came off as a bit clueless during his grilling, which I was completely unprepared for (compounded by the fact this was my first interview ever). </p>
<p>I still take solace in the fact it lasted so long. I mean, he must have thought I had a decent enough chance to tolerate me for so long, right? haha. My friend was interviewed by the same guy and his interview only lasted like 45 minutes, which doesn’t seem like a good sign =/</p>
<p>Wow, I feel bad for you all - those sound like terrible experiences. D had interviews with Harvard, Brown, and Dartmouth and was lucky enough to get what she felt were very nice interviewers from each school. No ridiculous questions - just more like a 45" chat about each school. She came out of each one very happy. They were short so maybe that was a bad sign, but each interviewer told her she would give her a great recommendation.</p>
<p>Haha, it was my second (college) interview ever, the first being one that I took earlier that day! Which was completely different, as it lasted a mere 35 minutes and involved only impersonal questions, lol…</p>
<p>I have mine coming up soon. Oof.</p>
<p>Interview went fantastically! We talked about medical systems in Europe; specifically the need for decentralization in the GB system, and the effects of the recent introduction of market-based economy within the EU member-states’ health systems as a result of the European Working Time Directive (run-on! eep!).</p>
<p>Although it’s all virtually meaningless in the greater span of the admissions process, I had a stimulating conversation and got free coffee!</p>
<p>Good luck to all.</p>
<p>My D just got called for an interview today with the interview being on Sunday at a Starbucks (I hope Starbucks is appreciating all the business they are getting with these college interviews). She had pretty much given up hope of being called so was pretty excited to be contacted today.</p>
<p>Length of the interview doesn’t determine whether or not it’s bad or good. My interview was no more than 30 minutes, and it went fantastic. Some alumni are just busy, or prefer not to have extensive interviews when they can write the report with 30 minutes worth.</p>
<p>My interview was great. It lasted 2+ hours and that was only because it was getting late and my interviewer did not want me to get home too late. The whole time she kept saying how she loved students like me (came out of a bad childhood to be something positive). And she also said that my interview schools were very good. I have a few questions for you guys (and pleased don’t take them as me trying to show off)
- After my interview, the interviewer (head of interviewers in her region, and also sets up events for all Long Island students accepted to Harvard, so I’m guessing she is pretty prominent) said that I shouldn’t be worried, I would be fine? Is this a good thing or am I reading too much into this.<br>
- My interviewere also said, more than once, that I was one of Harvard’s priority applicants and that harvard was very interested in me. Has anyone ever heard of this or is the lady blowing smoke up my butt.<br>
- Lastly. 3 different interviewers contacted me about an interview, 3 separate times (the last being my interviewer), however I was in Nigeria during this time. Anyway, my question is, could I really be a priority applicant since I was contacted so many different times or does that usually happen. </p>
<p>Sorry for the long posts, I’ve just had so many questions. Again please don’t take this as me trying to show off and good luck to all of you March 31st. </p>
<p>Thanks</p>
<p>never heard of any of that, but lucky you</p>
<p>I’m pretty sure the interviewers have no grounds giving anyone a “good chance”. My interviewers was also the regional director, and he flat out told me he’s had great interviews get in, and bad interviews get in, and terrible interviews get in as well- but he’ll do his best to be an advocate.</p>
<p>Priority applicant? Even if you came out of a terrible childhood, were black, first generation, and has a family income of string cheese you wouldn’t be a ‘priority’. Priority means development- which means your relative is on the Committee on University Resources- which in turn means 1 million on donation or more, with the prospect of much more.</p>
<p>Not my intention to come off harsh but that post screams ■■■■■ to me, especially if you’re from Long Island, which is an incredibly competitive area anyways.</p>
<p>I could be wrong though. But if you are ‘priority’- you get a likely letter. What is your situation exactly? Are you the child of that Nigerian prime minister with the millions needing help transferring?</p>
<p>**In addition just remembered way back I got a call from multicultural recruitment saying they were interested in me- but thats usually spam lines given to national hispanic scholars on the list collegeboard puts out.</p>