norcaldds said:
hey thanks, i got my interview in early october. the interview really seemed like a formality and they really didnt seem to ask me that many relevant questions. also the interview was like 10 minutes long. so i figure that they had already made thier decision of me befoe i even walked into the door. i dunno im still waiting on another school now, but i really liked my chances here, okay well im over it... okay im not !
If your interview was only 10 minutes long, then there is your potential acceptance killer. I always tell applicants, although not a law, but rule of thumb, your interview at Nova here should be more than 20 minutes in length. If your interview is only 10 minutes long, then that means you as a applicant bored the heck out of the interviewers or that you were not very talkative in answer or asking questions.
At Nova here, your interview should be 20 - 30 minutes of chatting to your interviewers like they're your family members at a family reunion. Chat and shoot the sh1ts with them. You should be smiling, laughing and having fun. Any dead air or "silences" are bad signs. I believe your numbers are fine, but unfortunately, the interviewers must not see you as outgoing or interesting if your interview was only 10 minutes long. In the years that I've been interacting with the admissions personal here at Nova, everyone's interview that lasted 10 minutes or less had a negative outcome.
Listen bud, not to cause you any more stress or discourage you, but we hardly move our waitlist. Each year, we only remove around 10 applicants off our waitlist out of 200+ applicants on that list. Other characteristics of Nova's waitlist:
1) there are no rankings like who's next off the list and who's second...
2) you won't find out if you're in or not until the end of March 2005 when all applicants have been interviewed (meaning Nova adcoms will not even look at the waitlist until everyone has been interviewed in late March 2005)
Good luck and you never know!
