DS wore a solid dark color, long sleeve tee (and pajama bottoms) and it looked perfectly nice on camera. They rocked the interview so I don’t think the top mattered much!
In all seriousness I think it depends a little on the school. For S25’s first interview he wore a polo shirt and I made him comb his hair 
D23 usually dressed in what we call “church clothes” for her interviews. Not too fancy but nice enough.
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D25 got her #1 college interview set up for Labor Day. It will be nice to get that out of the way before the year really ramps up. The school will be in the area so we won’t have to drive back to the school again for that.
School starts 2 weeks from today but next week club things really ramp up. Freshmen orientation, which student council is in charge of, is next week as well as picture day (just for ID’s for the seniors)/laptop pick up day.
D25 pretty much finished her summer reading assignment today. I told her she needs to spend a good chunk of tomorrow trying to get her college essay/short answers done for college #1 so she can get the essay emailed to her teacher to look over.
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Your kid25 has already had a college interview already?
My C25 has their first one tomorrow.
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Mine had one a few weeks ago and has another next week. Some allow interviews before applications have been submitted, others don’t.
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I mean, that’s what I wear for Zoom work meetings, so I can support that…
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Yes, yesterday!
D25 is our youngest, so please indulge me as I post about all of ‘lasts’ this year. So far, last ‘parent homework night’ (all the forms the school sends home the first day), last ASB card purchase, and last yearbook order all happened this week. 
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Good luck to them!
I am a little amazed at how quickly the submitted their application as I think the common app only went live a few days ago.
I’m even more amazed that the colleges have the machine oiled enough that they can intake the application and assign an interviewer this quickly.
So, how would they know who to interview if an application had not yet been submitted?
You can sign up on their websites.
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Ohhhh! Thank you, that is interesting.
Again, impressed that your kiddos are so on point.
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Fwiw, I reviewed our agreement and it is 15 essays.
D25 hasn’t yet played magic (the gathering) or D&D. But, oddly she found a podcast that shows a group of people playing D&D. The podcast has literally consumed hours of her time.
The lone redeeming quality of d&d is time with friends. That doesn’t exist in this scenario as she’s watching others bond.
Utterly baffling.
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As someone who consumes actual play D&D podcasts, it is absolutely amazing getting to observe people working together to create an original story. At some level it’s a form of improv (though not always comedic improv, depending on the podcast).
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Yikes, wait, what? We’re supposed to be setting up interviews for the kids already?
Can someone explain really quickly what the advantage is of doing it now vs later? (I’m really counting on non-linear maturing this fall and also he needs time to practice talking to people without going absolutely beet red and terrified.)
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We have just the one, so we’re doing the first-but-last thing all at once! (which might explain why we’re both clueless and overparenting, all at the same time.)
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My d only had two schools on her list that required interviews. Both recommended signing up as soon as you knew you were going to apply because slots fill up fast and it wasn’t guaranteed you could get one if you waited. IMO it seemed like a way to demonstrate interest.
One of the schools interviewed her when we visited before they even had the application!
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My S25 has done 2 interviews, both at safeties (I recommend this—was really good to have the first interview be somewhere he is probably getting in anyway). He has registered for several more later in the fall (many schools now have the fall signups open). He is going to have a very busy fall with activities & probably wouldn’t be able to interview everywhere he wants to if he didn’t get some done now. Since he’s chasing merit, he needs to show he’s serious about his lower-ranked schools & interviews are a good way to show interest. Plus, as a theater/debate kid he is a good talker. We have booked his reach school interviews for as late in the fall as we can.
I don’t think anyone who hasn’t started interviewing is behind! But it might make sense to book some interviews now, even if the date isn’t for months—many schools’ interview slots will fill up.
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