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[quote=Anonymous]I also do interviews for an Ivy League school.  One thing I would suggest, especially for introverts, is to make sure they're comfortable holding a conversation with adults. This is acheived by practice, and doesn't have to be about "deep" topics.  I'm going to write the best reports on those with whom I've had the most interesting conversation, even if it's about something fairly trivial.

Make sure they can look the interviewer in the eye, have a balance between being able to steer a conversation and allowing someone else to speak, and have worked on removing some of the annoying verbal tics out of their repertoire.  Again, this is best achieved by practice throughout the child's life, not by coming up with preselected, canned responses.  It's not about the kid who is trying to blow smoke up my a** -- I've got a good BS detector -- but the one who is thoughtful and can get their point across.

I don't ask a lot of hardball questions, and I'm not given, nor am I supposed to ask for, transcripts or brag sheets. I'm not going to write a negative review based on one misstatement. In fact I'm probably going to be favorably inclined to someone who can recover from something. I'm also looking most for the answer to the "why" questions - why you enjoy something - rather than a list of what you do. I've had a bunch of candidates for whom when I've tried to get at the "why" of any issues, it seeps from every pore that "it's what I'm supposed to do".[/quote]

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