Someone from my Kaplan class just emailed me about her interview at BU. I have my own opinions....what do you think. Here was her experience.
It was raining in the morning, so I started out the day wet--not good. I got to the interview and they were interviewing 7 of us. We had a tour of the facilities and I thought that they were great--state-of-the-art and all. Then we had a lecture and then ate lunch while taking turns interviewing. My interview was last. Myself and this girl from South Carolina were interviewed by this one guy while the other 5 people were interviewed by this woman. After the people interviewed with the woman, they all said "she was so nice, I just wanted to give her a big hug"--I'm not kidding, they all said that. When the south Carolina girl came back, I could tell that she was upset--but then it was my turn. The guy was so mean--he was such a jerk. Instead of letting us (me and the SC girl) sit in a comfortable chair, he made us sit on a bar stool with no back support so that we were uncomfortable from the-get-go. Then he asked me if I would retake the DATs and I said "absolutely not", I just took them on Oct 2nd--and then he said, "Oh, I didn't know that, I don't have your new scores". Then he showed me a pie chart--yes that's right, a pie chart showing that most of the applicants had scores of 19/19 and not 17/17. Then he told me that my grades did not count at all because the last time I took a graded course was 4 years ago--so he is not sure how I would perform academically. Then he alluded to the fact that he thought I was too old (he didn't say it in those words, but I knew what he was getting at) and he showed me a pie chart showing that most of the applicants were about 24-26yrs. old and I'm a bit older than that. Then he showed me another pie chart stating that they mostly accept out-of-state applicants. Then he said that he thought that I was a HUGE RISK because I was a non-traditional student. He said that it would be a ton of work and that he would need a lot of luck trying to convince the committee to accept me. He didn't care about my research--unless I had publications which I don't and he didn't care about my jewelry making or anything. He was so mean, I can't even begin to tell you the tone he said all of this in--he made me feel terrible, he made me feel like the biggest loser on the planet. He made it seem like no school would ever even consider me 'because I was such a huge risk--it was all I could do not to burst into tears--he was so mean and he kept saying that my grades didn't count for anything. He almost made the other girl cry too. This is one of the things he said to her "what would you say to me if I told you that I was not at all impressed with your application?" He asked her to retake the DAT too. I was getting so upset with him, I finally stood up (it was uncomfortable on that barstool) and said "Look, I'm great, and I will be a great asset to this school, what else do you want me to say?" Then he shook my hand and said "I like that"
