Decision from Duke Ellington?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Prepping by asking potential questions to my DC, as we would for, say, a job interview. Best I can think of. I’m an experienced interviewee…my 13yo, not so much.

The family interview is for you to ask questions, not really the other way around as much. You should be prepping questions, not answers

On the contrary…just completed our family interview, and yes, my child and I were asked a series of questions. As with most interviews, we were offered the chance to get our questions answered at the conclusion of the interview. Thanks for the suggestion though.

Did not suggest you would not be asked questions, but you are being evaluated on the strength of the family's interest and support of a very different kind of learning. That is generally displayed in the content and context of the questions you ask.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:If you signed up for an interview, did you get an email confirmation right away? (I did not, wondering if it didn't go through.)

Yes I did. I also found DESA admissions responded quickly to phone & email during work hours, so they may also be helpful in figuring this out.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:If you signed up for an interview, did you get an email confirmation right away? (I did not, wondering if it didn't go through.)

Yes, received confirmation pretty much immediately.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Prepping by asking potential questions to my DC, as we would for, say, a job interview. Best I can think of. I’m an experienced interviewee…my 13yo, not so much.

The family interview is for you to ask questions, not really the other way around as much. You should be prepping questions, not answers

On the contrary…just completed our family interview, and yes, my child and I were asked a series of questions. As with most interviews, we were offered the chance to get our questions answered at the conclusion of the interview. Thanks for the suggestion though.

Did not suggest you would not be asked questions, but you are being evaluated on the strength of the family's interest and support of a very different kind of learning. That is generally displayed in the content and context of the questions you ask.

“Not really the other way around” suggested - to me - that perhaps there wouldn’t be many questions, and I’m just saying there were several for my child and several for me. If it wasn’t your intention to convey that, apologies for misunderstanding. In my experience, and as another poster commented, the interview felt as though it was mainly intended to reaffirm the level of commitment required of students and families. It felt like a standard job interview (former hiring manager here) - there is the expectation that you have some question(s) that indicates your level of interest in the organization and alignment with its values. But that didn’t feel like the main focus of the interview. Thanks for the feedback.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Prepping by asking potential questions to my DC, as we would for, say, a job interview. Best I can think of. I’m an experienced interviewee…my 13yo, not so much.

The family interview is for you to ask questions, not really the other way around as much. You should be prepping questions, not answers

On the contrary…just completed our family interview, and yes, my child and I were asked a series of questions. As with most interviews, we were offered the chance to get our questions answered at the conclusion of the interview. Thanks for the suggestion though.

My interview was mostly spent me interviewing them. Not the other way around.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Prepping by asking potential questions to my DC, as we would for, say, a job interview. Best I can think of. I’m an experienced interviewee…my 13yo, not so much.

The family interview is for you to ask questions, not really the other way around as much. You should be prepping questions, not answers

On the contrary…just completed our family interview, and yes, my child and I were asked a series of questions. As with most interviews, we were offered the chance to get our questions answered at the conclusion of the interview. Thanks for the suggestion though.

My interview was mostly spent me interviewing them. Not the other way around.

It makes sense that different families may have slightly different experiences. Seems there’s value in specifying what “my experience” is versus THE experience, which can suggest a uniform experience. After all, different disciplines have different panels to conduct the interviews. Regards.

[Anonymous]

The audition and interview experience are highly department dependent.

[Anonymous]

If we have not heard re camp interview, does that mean we are out?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:If we have not heard re camp interview, does that mean we are out?

I can’t say for sure as I’m not an agent of the school, but I would imagine that all who have passed the artistic audition portion would have been contacted for the next step already (as results on MSDC are due to be posted in about 3 weeks). We received the email for interview sign-up last week.

[Anonymous]

For Visual Arts, will the school notify applicants if they didn't make it to the next round? With 3/15 the deadline to order schools, assuming we would have heard by now if continuing in the process.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:For Visual Arts, will the school notify applicants if they didn't make it to the next round? With 3/15 the deadline to order schools, assuming we would have heard by now if continuing in the process.

Last year they did not notify you if you “passed” the family interview. So you’ll have a couple of weeks of waiting to see how the “lottery” shakes out.