<p>I forgot all the periodicals and I have a million books on my booklist I don’t remember at all. Character names, anything. It’ll be bad if they actually ask anything… I’ll be like, “Who was Francie again?” “She was the main character. You just automatically failed your interview.”</p>
<p>Not that I’ll get one, of course.</p>
<p>yeah, conflict, issue and criticalanalysis essays are prob most important. future plans is second, then … book list and seminar rankings aren’t as important i think.</p>
<p>… yeah. the essays i’ve read so far are decent.</p>
<p>Just out of curiosity, if anyone happens to know the answer…</p>
<p>If you get selected for an interview, will you be on equal footing again with everyone else at that stage (i.e. the rest of the acceptance process is based solely on the interview)? Or do those with the superior essays still have higher chances of acceptance?</p>
<p>ah i forgot uglies/pretties! i liked those books</p>
<p>i think your not necessarily on the same field but it’s about the interviews.
obviously if you got a interview and like had serious vulgar word salad. you prob will be cut.</p>
<p>and crane: the rankings are important they just dont really apply unless you make it through you know.they might inquire if its something really random you know.</p>
<p>Re: Wink, I remember reading on the 2007 TASP thread that if your essays are a bit weak (but still qualify for an interview) but you have a really strong interview, then you will be given preference over a person with stronger essays but a weaker interview. I’m guessing that the interview constitutes a really important factor in the admissions process, maybe more so than the essays, which can be seen as initial qualifiers.</p>
<p>Okay, that makes sense. Thanks ajkcorner.</p>
<p>In all scenarios that I imagine myself being interviewed, it is always an old guy with glasses and a beard, kinda like Sigmund Freud, and he is looking at me with utter contempt, like I’m a waste of a human mind. Anyway, whole point of this was to ask what everyone’s interview/interviewer looks like in their head.</p>
<p>I think I’m spelling “utter” wrong. It looks too much like cow utter. Or is that udder? What does this sentence have to do with anything whatsoever?</p>
<p>my interviewer was a young woman from michican. she was lesbian and very liberal. she had me draw connection btwn my essays and forced me to think on my toes regarding different ideas. It seems like in most interviews, there is one killer question. mine was at the end, when she was like, “okay, one last question. What do you think is the biggest problem facing the world today?” haha. i was like… uh… givme a second or ten. and a fellow tasp’er of mine had the question - If you could recreate civilization and be the supreme ruler, how would you govern and what five things would you implement? lol he had a great answer i rmmber. </p>
<p>basically, no old-guy-with-glasses kind of character - and sometimes you will get a panel of 2-3 interviewers. u guys sound like awesome candidates, & the way this thread grows reminds me of how ours was last year. have fun at ur interviews all you tasp’ers-to-be!</p>
<p>^agh, that sounds like an impossible question haha</p>
<p>Thanks, it took me awhile to get that you are a previous TASPer. I’m loving the supreme leader question, there is just so many possibilities!</p>
<p>I have already imagined my interview (yeah, I’m pretentious like that) going wrong a hundred different ways. Just a few:</p>
<ol>
<li>I swear. Loudly. In multiple languages.</li>
<li>I say something very politically incorrect.</li>
<li>I forget everything about every single book on my book list.</li>
<li>I pick my nose while I think the interviewer(s) is(are) looking away.</li>
<li>I burp too much and my breath smells like Taco Bell.</li>
</ol>
<p>Of course, the main thing I worry about is that the interviewer will uncover the ignorance and pretentiousness that I have kept hidden for years behind a facade of modest accomplishment.</p>
<p>If I do get an interview (big IF), I hope I have more than one interviewer; I feel like that would lighten the mood a little.</p>
<p>sheesh those questions!
i think for the problem one i’d say ignorance
unless it had to be a concrete problem
then idk
haha</p>
<p>still thinking on the ruler one</p>
<p>Interesting questions.
For the biggest problem, I would say “apathy” – kind of a cop-out…
For the supreme ruler…I guess it would depend on whether I were a benevolent ruler or a corrupt one (knowing me, I would be corrupt).</p>
<p>I honestly don’t know what to say in response to the supreme ruler question. It would be difficult to maintain a benevolent dictatorship; absolute power corrupts absolutely. <em>Sigh</em> I’m so indecisive!</p>
<p>“1. I swear. Loudly. In multiple languages.”</p>
<p>Funny you should say that. In my interview last year, I used the phrase “b*tches ‘n’ hos” in one of my responses; my interviewer didn’t blink an eye. :)</p>
<p>Really? I’m saved!!</p>
<p>i’d probably argue how there are no problems in the world. i have thought about this a long time and i have a long argument for that. but then they’d prob think that im weird</p>
<p>ok my interview wasnt that bad question wise. i had ellen baer, imagine a nice little not too old lady ( yeah i know i sound like im lying but i swear its true, lol.) i remember stumbling and stuttering and using a few collequial (sp) phrases and she had no problems. as i remember she didnt give me an impossible question thought she might have asked what my peers and i feel about the current state of the world or something.</p>
<p>i imagine i’ll get ellen again, which really calms me down.</p>
<p>I didn’t want to say it because I thought people would disagree with me left and right, but I agree absolutely with you, papercrane.</p>
<p>There really aren’t any problems in the world. We’re human, and as such, we have varying opinions and perspectives on right/wrong. There is no law that governs human interaction, and as such we can contribute to the world and the people that inhabit it anything we want, and because of this, anything is possible, as evidenced by the “good” and “evil” in the world. There is no utopia and there is no ubermensch and never will be. There is only imperfection as long as human beings are what the are, human beings, so since our world is imperfect, everything is just dandy.</p>
<p>I really feel like I did this argument justice, and I hope I didn’t misinterpret your stance, papercrane.</p>
<p>There is a great article that sorta touches on this called “In Defense of Prejudice.” Definitely suggested.</p>
<p>I meant to say: I feel like I DIDN’T do this argument justice.</p>