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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I know of one admissions officer at a school who is particularly bad. Again, families aren't turning down the school specifically because of this person as your kid will never encounter them once they start there, but the fact that the school chooses this person to represent them does not reflect well. We have multiple friends who interviewed with this person and notified parents at the school about how bad it was and those parents reported it back to the school.[/quote]

We had a group tour at Riverdale led by two admissions officers *neither* of whom was able to answer very basic questions about the school in anything more than a hand-waving fashion, and when we interviewed with one of them later it was clear they actually didn't know the answers and weren't just trying to keep the tour moving.[/quote]

Interesting - what basic questions couldn't they answer?[/quote]

+1 on being treated second class at Trinity. But I’ve heard bad stories from other schools too. Maybe ppl have bad days and don’t shine as interviewers. Maybe they should interview fewer ppl..[/quote]

We had one particularly bad interviewer at a school - not warm at all, not very responsive to questions, didn't seem very engaged. Our friends happened to have the same person. Also had a bad experience. Some people just shouldn't be interviewing.

Totally agree that everyone has bad days, everyone doesn't click with everyone else (though it is the interviewer's job to try), etc.

The situation I am citing isn't Trinity but I have heard they have different tiers of interviewers. Not sure if it is random or based on their pre-screen of you (and your ranking with others interviewing at the same time) who you get.[/quote]

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