i feel terrible.... please help

[rodain]

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During an interview, I started to feel extremely unwell. I could barely get it together and was sluggish
and aloof during the final tour part of the school, and I feel terrible about it.
I felt awful during the flight there and near fainted on the plane, but couldn't really cancel or rearrange
as I had spent a fortune to get there.
Should I contact the tour guide and explain my situation? This is torturing me, as it may come across as
if I was uninterested in the school and the tour, when it was the last thing of the sort.
Now that I've recovered, I feel numb in reflecting how I may have come across as, and I don't know what to do.

 

[Lannister]

I don't think the tour guides normally report to the admissions office unless you do something really bad.
Sorry that happened to you, I had this experience at my interview for my top school as well, it stinks 🙁

 

[rodain]

Would it hurt in contacting the tour guide though? This was my dream school for so long, and I feel so awful about this, seeing as this
guide was also part of my panel interview, and in general just the loveliest human being who went all out to make the day special.
I don't usually do this but thoughts @Goro @gyngyn @LizzyM ?

 

[Goro]

It can't hurt to contact the admissions dean.

 

[The Knife & Gun Club]

This happened to me on my Tulane interview. Ate some sketchy street food in NoLa the day before, and was an absolute wreck all day. Sneezing, blowing nose, and aweful headache plus a million bathroom breaks. I thought I had bombed for sure, and emailed the student interviewer to apologize the next day. She was super nice and said apparently it actually happens alot and not to worry! It was probably way more apparent what was going on to you than anyone else.

 

[rodain]

It can't hurt to contact the admissions dean.

Sorry to bug you again @Goro , but I pm'd you what I thought I would write to the dean; could you take a quick glance at it?
This school means so much to me- it was surreal for me to even set foot there- cost an arm and a leg to get there at all,
so words can't describe how sh-t I feel at the moment.

 

[moisne]

As a student who does tour guides, we don't care. We don't even care if you said "Hey... I have a flight to catch, can't stay, bye!"

We have 0 say in your interview.

For your actual interview, you should probably have best said something at the beginning. Possibly should contact admission. I don't know - part of life is either 1. Being mature enough to call them and tell them you are deathly sick. 2. Tough it up and ride it out.