What did you wear to interview?

TacYllems
Thu, 01 Aug 2013 17:39:39 +0000

WOWM…Your “Definitely not a suit & tie occasion” made me chuckle. My son wore exactly that last year for his on-campus interview. His exact words after the interview was “Mom, I was way overdressed!” He said other students also there for interviews were more casually dressed, and that they were probably thinking “look at that guy so overdressed”. I told him, I bet that’s not what they were thinking at all. My son walking in with a suit and tie probably caused an internal panic in each of the other kids, and they were likely thinking, “ruh-roh…I’m underdressed”. Anyway, I think somewhere in the middle is probably right. Being overdressed didn’t hurt (I’m happy to say that my son is an incoming freshman), but being underdressed might have. The way I look at it is that this is like a job interview. There were over 17,000 applications received for the class of 2017, and only about 30% got accepted. If you really want to attend UofR, this is your chance to make a good impression.