My theory on interviews

Alexz825Mom
Sun, 09 Jan 2011 03:27:00 +0000

Mountainhiker–my d had 3off campus interviews in our city. One was due to on our visit dates, they had no interviewing time. I think it was a positive that my d had “home-court” advantage. The other two interviews were due to the inability to visit the campus, one in NJ. The NJ school interview was tough. My d felt that the interviewer was really not interested in her. It was the shortest of all interviews. When I spoke with the AO, she also gave me the intitial feeling of "bordem. I was to find out later that the AO had been on the road for about 5 days, we were the last city and she was just plain exhausted.

Seeing how you live in Colorado, we are in Chicago, I beleive many schools realize that not all families can visit. That is the reality of life.

I was happy that we did get to visit some schools and see the process from the campus side. The visits got us a feeling the campus and the students. After being accepted in at the NJ school, we did the revisit day. I loved the school/campus etc. My d didnt. But keep in mind that at that point my d was accepted in her first choice school, thus bias. If she didnt get her first choice that school would hve been a great posibility.

We didnt apply anywhere that my d would not have loved to attend.

Hope this helps, Good Luck!!