Getting IN by Standing OUT: The New Rules for Admission to America's Best Colleges by Dr. Deborah Bedor

Author:Dr. Deborah Bedor
Language: eng
Format: mobi
Tags: General Fiction
Publisher: Advantage Media Group
Published: 2015-05-30T16:00:00+00:00

How do you stay in control of the interview?

• The usual first question is simply: Tell me about yourself. This is harder than it sounds. If you handle this one correctly, you should be able to monopolize at least ten minutes of the interview describing the things you’re passionate about. If there is one thing you have excelled at, like a business, an internship, an organization you founded, language fluency you possess, or a job you’ve held, speak in depth about it and provide examples.

• Keep moving from one interest or important résumé point to the next so that the interviewer has less of a chance to interject a question for which you haven’t prepared. The key is to start with your greatest talent, intellectual curiosity, or biggest advantage. Is it a business or nonprofit you’ve started? Is it an artistic talent? Is it debate or school leadership? Is it your love of mathematics? Give as many examples and reasons as possible for why it’s important for you to take part in this activity.

• The “why” behind what you do is what impresses. Explaining your why takes the interviewer into the core of who you are and who you’ll be as a student on campus. It shows them how your presence there will improve and enliven the campus. The more you can tie your why into the reason you need the interviewer’s alma mater to fulfill your higher education expectations, the more excited the interviewer will get about you.

If you can keep speaking about interesting things in your life and academic pursuits, you’ll roll through some quality interview time without a sweat. Talk about winning a science fair, founding your business, or founding your nonprofit; winning a leadership award; taking a summer course in another country; backpacking and meeting students from all over the world and how that informed your views as a global citizen; pursuing an unusual art; returning to a grandparent’s place of birth and how that affected you; working after school to make money to help your family while a parent is laid off; spearheading a community project. Analyze the reasons you were compelled to make these things happen.

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