Please describe your alumni interview for us

snowysquirrels
Sun, 03 Jan 2010 22:23:20 +0000

My Harvard interview was fairly casual, at Starbucks. I arrived 20 min early and kept looking around for her, but she turned out to be the one who found me (I’d googled her online so I knew what she looked like).

She started out with her life, then we turned to my life; I provided a resume which she accepted, and she started off with the standard questions. Soon I told her I was homeschooled (mainly when the topic turned to EC’s) and naturally she had many questions about homeschool. I don’t remember any particular questions that threw me off guard; it was more my homeschool education that kind of set her off guard. It ended with her not having any more questions for me. Fortunately I’d managed to stuff in a few questions about Harvard before our interview ended.

Overall it was an enjoyable 1-hour interview, though it was tinged with the nervousness that comes when you know that someone is evaluating you… especially based on a single meeting… I’m glad the interview doesn’t count for very much in the admissions decision. :)