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So I had a college interview down in NW DC today. My dad and I arrived early, so we hung out at Starbucks for a bit.
Anyway, the guy asks me my favorite classes, hobbies, interests, favorite books and movies. You know the deal. He actually mentioned that he's never interviewed someone who was accepted. I suppose it's kind of a hard school to get into, but it isn't really my #1 choice, so I spent some time just talking to him.
The interview went pretty well, and now that I think about it I should have asked for advice here before I went... meh.
When he asked what extracurricular activities had influenced my thinking or helped with my schoolwork I mentioned Hatrack as one of them.
"So you can just go online to this one place and talk about books, politics, current events, movies, whatever?"
Seriously though, that's pretty awesome. Who knew Hatrack could possibly be a benefit to college admissions?
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quote:Originally posted by James Tiberius Kirk: April, sometime. I didn't apply for early action anywhere (stupid me)
Unless you were really set on going to one specific place, that's probably a good thing. In my opinion, you're better off keeping your options open.
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Wow, I would totally not mention that I hang out on websites to anyone "official". Lots of people, particularly old people, have a real prejudice about that, and might think you're very weird if you tell them. Hopefully this guy was not like that. He sounded pretty positive about it. And I expect that academic people are among the least prejudiced. But honestly most people I know IRL who are my age or older think it's bizarre to have online friends and an online intellectual life. They're wrong, of course, but when you're trying to get in their college is not generally the time to teach people new things.
Good luck with your application, nevertheless. Hopefully hatrack was a help to you, as you feel, and not a hinderance as I fear. Posts: 6246 | Registered: Aug 2004
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quote:Originally posted by James Tiberius Kirk: April, sometime. I didn't apply for early action anywhere (stupid me)
Unless you were really set on going to one specific place, that's probably a good thing. In my opinion, you're better off keeping your options open.
Early action is different from early decision in that while you find out whether you've gotten in months before the regular decision applicants, you are under no obligation to attend there. There's really no downside to applying early action except that you have to get the application in insanely early, and most people haven't narrowed their list down completely at that point.
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whoa... I misinterpeted dag's post. The interview was in the Georgetown area (a friend tells me that DuPont Circle is Georgetown, but he could be wrong) but Georgetown wasn't the school.
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The interview was with an alumnus who worked in DC.
I really don't expect to get in, but hey, their application wasn't as confusing as some of the others; by that point I already had several essays written (groan) and recommendations, so I filled it out when it came in the mail.
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Yale's campus is absolutely gorgeous. I applied there for grad school, but that was my "yeah, right" application. Didn't get in, but it wasn't a surprise. I was just a little disappointed that I didn't get to live with all the pretty old buildings.
Anyway, good luck, and congrats for getting an interview with them!
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