Information that Your Interviewer Has About You?

admissionsgeek
Sat, 13 Nov 2010 13:57:16 +0000

i do appreciate the kind words - but i just answered this question on a similarly worded thread title a few days ago “Does the alumni interviewer have my full application?”. searching would’ve made this thread unnecessary.

your name, school, school you are applying to, major choices, activity interests. that is all.

interviewers will vary in what they care about - some may be curious about your statistics, but frankly that is not our job as interviewers. it is for you to have a conversation about yourself to a stranger, and us as unbiased individuals to report back how you carried yourself in that conversation; how interested we become in your description of your activity.

i do not suggest bringing anything to the interview besides yourself - from my point of view, when a candidate brings a resume, test scores, or anything, it is immediately written up negatively in my reports. it comes across as too eager, and also just shows the student presumes i have more power than i really do. this is a conversation - great students could be horrible at it and that could impact their application, bad students can be great at it and that wont impact the fact they are bad, but marginal students it may be the thing that pulls you in or takes you out of competition.