Terrible Alumnus interview

FrozenShardz
Sat, 11 Jan 2014 16:21:20 +0000

Hi everybody,
not sure if it was just me that was terrible at answering interview questions under pressure or it was my interviewer being unfair.

Started off by asking about the other schools Im applying to, listed 10 of them and included northwestern saying northwestern is the school I’d want to go to the most because of x,y,z. He then asked me about how I would choose schools given decisions and I said it would have to depend based on where else I get accepted. So when explaining why I would choose to go somewhere, I started off badly and I said i would consider the location of the school at which point he cut me off and said that’s not a good enough reason (I would’ve gone on to explain that academics and opportunities on campus are the main reaasons but again he cut me off because of my bad start). This continued for the rest of the interview, throughout which he said he was continuously confused as to why I would even apply somewhere even though I outlined why I did in the first place.

In the end, the conversation wasn’t about northwestern at all… I told him I’d like to go to NU for HPME and after that he concentrated on why I’d want to pick to apply to other schools and asked me where Id want to go given all my options and truly I didn’t know because again it would depend. He said that regardless I should know and that in the end it is clear that I do not know where I want to go, and said I don’t want to go to Northwestern at all.

I don’t know why this happened … maybe I was just bad at answering the questions. Does anybody have any input as to why this happened? Should I do anything about this? Was it fair that it did happen, and does it have any negative effect on my application? Thanks for all the critcism/support in advance.