<p>am RD applicant. i actually got contacted for the interview on last wednesday (the 4th) and had my interview the following friday. it was disappointingly basic (was hoping for the type of interview people rant about: i.e. having amazing intellectually discussion about string theory, or in my case, maybe sharon’s stroke), and held at his office at the university near my house (since he’s a professor). it definitely depends on the interviewer…he went to yale 35 years ago (!) asked very standard questions like what’s your favorite class, what’s your least favorite, what do you do outside of school, why yale?, etc. </p>
<p>We didn’t have any ‘amazingly intellectual’ discussions, although i did ask him to compare yale and berkeley (because he went to berk grad) and got him to ramble on about his pet peeve of students not coming to him for help and stuff. but yes, i asked about study abroad, and they didn’t really have study abroad then, so that question died. but he was part of the last all-male class at yale, so he had some interesting insights there. all in all, it went well until i screwed up at the end with some blabbing…but it went OK. <em>shrugs</em> </p>
<p>That interview really reaffirmed some of the things i love about Yale (he really sold me on the residential colleges and the quality of Yale’s undergrad program), so i hope that didn’t just kill my chances…</p>