Interview performance and Decision

[BOAO523]

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I've read on SDN that oftentimes interviewees feel great (or poorly) about their interview performance and are blindsided by a wait-list/rejection decision (or acceptance).

Can anyone familiar with the interview process comment on why they believe someone's self-rated interview performance might not coincide with the end decision?

 

[LizzyM]

Your perception of what the other person thought of the experience is not necessarily in agreement with what the other person thought and felt... and what they wrote to the committee and how the committee interpreted it in light of the other information available your application.

 

[Goro]

I've read on SDN that oftentimes interviewees feel great (or poorly) about their interview performance and are blindsided by a wait-list/rejection decision (or acceptance).

Can anyone familiar with the interview process comment on why they believe someone's self-rated interview performance might not coincide with the end decision?

It's because people are terrible judges of their own performance.

Also, desperate people hone in excessively to remarks made by interviewers that are given out as mere politeness.

Lastly, most people are unfamiliar with how the acceptance process works; just because two interviewers liked you doesn't meant that the entire Adcom will (and at DO schools, thge Dean's decision get added to that well in the final Nay or Yay.)

 

[Geomamaearth]

Felt I interview poorly earlier this month, and got my acceptance today.

I nit picked everything I did that day. Everything from what I said (or did not say) during my interview, to what I said around faculty, my tone, body language, tie choice, parking space, breakfast, etc.

Do something else to get your mind off the interview.

 

[Angus Avagadro]

1) People are terrible at assessing their own interview performance. "connecting" with the interview may have no indication on how they are evaluating you
2) Interview performance is not the only factor in consideration. A school may interview everyone who has a pre-interview assessment on some classification systems of say 85%. That means you may be the one with 85% while others were assessed at 98%.
3) Your interview assessment is then added to overall assessment, then voted on by team, subcommittee and/or full committee.
4) This is an olympic class event and only the top few finishers get medals. you could be just a fraction of second behind the leaders but no medal for you

Well said.

 

[Matthew9Thirtyfive]

EDP?

Or DO.