About a week and a half ago, I had an interview where I felt mostly not welcomed to the school and I was wondering if anyone had similar experience. During the entire interview process, only the admissions officers seemed excited and showed welcome while rest of others in the process seemed completely uninterested.
Unlike few other interviews where I felt like they really wanted to know who I am, this interview was more like question and answer rather than conversational. I tried to keep the mood up but there was no response from both faculty and the student interviewer.
The interviewers seemed uninterested in asking me any questions. The faculty member seemed tired and was almost zoning out while I was answering the question. It really pressured me to be make my answer as short as possible, which was a bad decision because I could not elaborate on my personality or my vision outside of the designated questions. The questions I got were all just directly from the paper that they had in front of them. It was quite obvious they didn't really care what I was saying or who I was (they were looking elsewhere and zoning out). Only time I saw them interested in me was when I was asking questions related to their research or curriculum.
I felt really discouraged and quite sad because this was my top choice that I wanted to attend since I was freshmen in my undergrad. This can sound too overreacting but I just cannot believe I worked so hard for four years to be this unwelcomed from my top choice school during the entire interview process. I was so happy when I got the interview invite but after the actual interview, I am feeling worse than not receiving invite from the school. Also I was surprised because I heard this school's interview had very friendly faculty and students in the interview and I am now worried if they already didn't like me somehow from my application.
At this point, only thing I can do is to pray and hope. But at the same time, my interest to the school has dropped quite significantly as well.
Please let me know if anyone else had similar experience!
Unlike few other interviews where I felt like they really wanted to know who I am, this interview was more like question and answer rather than conversational. I tried to keep the mood up but there was no response from both faculty and the student interviewer.
The interviewers seemed uninterested in asking me any questions. The faculty member seemed tired and was almost zoning out while I was answering the question. It really pressured me to be make my answer as short as possible, which was a bad decision because I could not elaborate on my personality or my vision outside of the designated questions. The questions I got were all just directly from the paper that they had in front of them. It was quite obvious they didn't really care what I was saying or who I was (they were looking elsewhere and zoning out). Only time I saw them interested in me was when I was asking questions related to their research or curriculum.
I felt really discouraged and quite sad because this was my top choice that I wanted to attend since I was freshmen in my undergrad. This can sound too overreacting but I just cannot believe I worked so hard for four years to be this unwelcomed from my top choice school during the entire interview process. I was so happy when I got the interview invite but after the actual interview, I am feeling worse than not receiving invite from the school. Also I was surprised because I heard this school's interview had very friendly faculty and students in the interview and I am now worried if they already didn't like me somehow from my application.
At this point, only thing I can do is to pray and hope. But at the same time, my interest to the school has dropped quite significantly as well.
Please let me know if anyone else had similar experience!
