What do you talk about at interviews?

mf06d
Sat, 20 May 2006 09:50:54 +0000

I had two interviews, one with Penn and another with Columbia. The one with Columbia was with an extremely dry engineer who just stared at me and waited for me to talk without any questions. That lasted for 30 minutes until he started to ask questions. The interview was 90 min long. The Penn one was amazing. It really consisted of my telling the interviewer why I wanted to go to Penn, what I knew about their program, why I am who I am and why I want to go down my career path. And we talked for about 20 min about her experience there. She gave me tips, etc.

I found both of them pretty easy. Again, like above, be prepared to talk about yourself a lot. Also make sure you’re familiar with the stuff you listed on your application. In a list of activities I had political campaigning as like number 9 out of 10+ activities and the Columbia guy brought it up. He also asked who would remember me from my high school and why. Just be prepared to talk yourself up basically, but in a realistic way.

Good Luck

Matt