Inserting Politics into College Interviews

Fratastic
Sat, 06 Jan 2007 02:38:38 +0000

I applied to seven schools with alumni interviews.

I’m a conservative, and the extra curricular activites on my application were evident of my political leaning.

All of the interviewers I had, incidentally, were liberals. At a point in the interviews, all of them got to politics. I remember my Yale interview:

"You are a bright young man, how can you honestly support Bush, "

I took the opportunity to blow him away and show him that there is a basis to my beliefs I just don’t mimic daddy in the voting booths.

All of my interviews went great. I would hope that an alumni of a prestigious school is openminded enough to respect you, regardless of your beliefs, if they are well thought and sincere.

I’m going to go out on a limb and guess that most interviewers will be liberals. Remember, we conservatives don’t care about education. Instead of interviewing loser 17-year-olds, we are off clubbing baby seals, causing global warming, exploiting third world country farmers, and killing innocent civilians worldwide. And finding tax loopholes. Duh.