Please describe your alumni interview for us

Baelor
Sun, 03 Jan 2010 02:36:41 +0000

I applied last year, but I’ll bite anyway.

My interviewer was dressed far more casually (jeans and T-shirt) than I was, but I had just come from a piano recital. He was a computer scientist at Microsoft, where he said Princeton students were heavily recruited by Princeton employees at Microsoft. He was very nice, and asked questions about the extracurriculars I had listed on my resume. He was very sharp and pointed out a discrepancy between something I said and what I had written down (the mileage on a backpacking trip, I fortunately accounted for the difference). That part of the interview lasted twenty to thirty minutes. He labeled me as a Woody Woo student, funnily enough.

The rest of the interview was my asking questions about Princeton and his thorough and detailed answers. It was actually quite enlightening, and increased my interest in the school.