<p>I’m interested in Theater Technology (Design and Production)
Here’s my ideas so far.</p>
<p>• Could you describe any Internship Placement or Career Placement programs?</p>
<p>• Can you recommend some business courses that have a good overlap with the Theater Tech Program?</p>
<p>• Can you describe the advising system</p>
<p>• What percentage of courses are taught by Teaching Assistants or graduate students. Which of my potential courses are taught by TAs.</p>
<p>I used to interview for a living… The questions you wrote are considered “closed questions” i.e. they can be answered yes or no. You are much more likely to elicit a better response through asking what are referred to as "open-ended questions: i.e. questions that can not be answered yes or no.
Examples: Please describe any internship placement or Career Placement programs.
What courses can you recommend that have a good overlap …
Please tell me about how your advising program works.</p>
<p>Key Point: If “you” is 2nd word in sentence it is probably a closed end question.</p>
<p>Another key is to be ready to ask follow up questions such as "Why is that? , “Very interesting, tell me more”. Keep them talking and you win! Good luck.</p>
<p>I’ve had 7 interviews so far, and at all of them I usually ask
“What is the community like at School X?”
“What is the political atmosphere at School X?”
“What is the average stress level of a student at School X?”</p>
<p>and then I piggy back off their answers to ask more questions/think up some more questions on the fly. </p>
<p>Good questions show that you have looked through all the material you could reasonably get your hands on. Your questions are important, but I wonder if some of them are easily answered on your own.</p>
<p>During my interviews, I asked a lot about the extracurriculars that I was interested in, dorm life, the sense of community, campus traditions, outside community, and how attending that school helped them out after graduation. </p>
<p>I need better advice than what I’m getting above.</p>
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<p>Try to make it personal, ask the interviewer about their experience at College X. Ask them if they had the chance, would they go back again? Things like that.</p>
<p>Glad to see I wasn’t the only one with T26’s reaction. </p>
<p>^^^I agree as well. .</p>
<p>^^^^^^^^the advice they gave up there is very good. You just want to start with some general questions, like how is the community at the school, stress level, how going to the school has opened opportunities/helped them after graduation.</p>
<p>You can usually get some good information from these, and the interviewer will most likely touch on another aspect of the school that you may have forgotten about, which you can then ask a question about. </p>
<p>In the interview, it’s also helpful to ask some more personal questions (at least I found it helpful). It was very interesting learning what all my interviewers accomplished after graduating (mostly from Ivies) and it also opened the door for more questions about the school.</p>
<p>What is not good to ask are questions that can be answered very quickly (either with yes/no or a sentence or two) or questions that you can easily find answered online on the college website.</p>
<p>It might also not be good to question about something very specific (like specific business courses that overlap with theater tech). You’re interviewer might have been a biology major…</p>
<p>Ask them what they disliked about the university. My interviewer was pretty honest about it, they might end their answer with something like “… but I think they may have fixed that” or “they improved that though…” But you can definitely tell what they mean. </p>
<p>Ask what they would have done differently if they could go back through it again.</p>
<p>Ask what their average day was (weekday and weekend)</p>
<p>Unless you know for sure what major/program your interviewer was part of, I would refrain from asking such specific questions as they might not know the answer. Also most of these interviews are supposed to be open ended and personal, seeing if you’re a right fit for them but also seeing if they are a right fit for you. </p>
<p>Be ready for some hard hitting questions… I was asked what my purpose in life was… </p>