Your alumni interview is a conversation – and it’s a two way street. You should have questions for the interviewer as well, such as:
- What was your favorite class or professor?
- What was your concentration?
- What extracurricular activities did you participate in?
- What's the best thing you remember about your days at Harvard?
- What was the worst thing you remember about your days at Harvard?
There are several sites you can google with Harvard interview questions, among them are:
https://college.harvard.edu/admissions/hear-our-students/student-blog/my-unofficial-tips-interviews
https://signeteducation.com/blog/harvard-interview-expectations
https://www.google.com/search?client=safari&rls=en&q=harvard+interview&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8#q=harvard+interview+site:talk.collegeconfidential.com&safe=off&rls=en
In addition, be prepared for a question interviews are not supposed to ask, but often do:
- What other colleges have you applied to?
This is especially true in the RD round, where an alumni interviewer may awkwardly ask:
- Did you apply to any colleges in the early round?
- Were you accepted early to another college?
- Which college is your first choice school and why?
Also, I think it’s helpful to look through sample alumni interview reports, so you can read what kinds of things alumni say. Harvard doesn’t have sample reports available on-line, but Yale does. Play special attention to the interview reports for JEROD, RICHARD, and THERESA: http://asc.yale.edu/samplereports