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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][b]Keep in mind these are kids and probably their first set of interviews, ever.[/b] This isn't a skill thats taught in schools, you pick it up along the way. Sure, you can practice and that may be a good idea. But I would ease up on the kids. With all the pressure thats been put on them its a wonder they can open their mouths at all.[/quote]

I think that's OP's point -- that college interviews should NOT be a kid's first set of interviews. The stakes are way too high for something like college interviews or scholarship interviews to go into it cold. It would be ideal if the applicant had already gone through an authentic interview experience in the form of a job interview, but obviously this won't be the case for everyone.

It wasn't the case for our kids, so we took on the role of helping them prep. Dh & I helped the kids think of possible questions and how to answer them, then we did full mock interviews with the kids; then we had close family friends do mock interviews with them; then we hired our friend's college age neighbor who had just done grad school interviews to do a final round of mock interviews with DD1 and we asked a distant cousin of mine DD had never met who worked in college admissions at a school not on DD's list to do the final round of interview prep for DD2.

This is a service universities typically offer to their upperclassmen applying to jobs or graduate schools, so it seems sensible to take undergraduate admissions just as seriously and make sure we help the kids be appropriately prepared.[/quote]

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