<p>“Tell me about yourself”
That question killed me when my interviewer (not for Yale) asked me as the opening question of the interview. I just sort of repeated my resume. I think I would have been more comfortable answering it at the end of the interview. Asking it at the very beginning sort of demanded me to prioritize my life to the interviewer, and ultimately my life’s priorities are basically the same as most high schoolers: family, friends, school, sports; which I felt led to a relatively dull response that left out some “quirkier” aspects of my life that simply didn’t seem very important relative to my GPA or my varsity letters.</p>