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[quote=Anonymous]I used to interview for my old SLAC.  I was able to give the school a perspective on their personality and answer questions from the students.  Around here, I typically ran into TJ-type kids who took 6 AP classes and wrote fascinating papers that went to international news journals.  Basically, I wasn't trying to question whether they had the grades/test scores.  I felt like my job was to determine what actually interested the kids.  I wanted to hear about something that excited them, what they do in their "spare" time when they aren't studying for hours on end because they have to.  Some kids made it clear that they had no idea why they were applying to my school.  They didn't have questions, they didn't ask about certain majors/extracurricular activities/social activities or anything that might make them single out my school over any others.  I was able to relay this to the school, whether this kid seemed interested in our school, what they were involved with that wasn't just padding a resume, about their family, whether going to college was a stretch and a dream, or something they were not very excited about but that was expected, etc.  I have no idea if it made any difference in admissions, but I did feel it gave more personality to the application.  [/quote]

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