The post-application interview
Okay. So you've submitted your applications, and you receive a request for an interview from one of your programs. What do you do to prepare?
So far I've come up with these definites:
-Take a close look at what you wrote in your application, and be prepared to discuss it in more detail.
-If you mentioned any particular faculty or students in your application, be prepared to discuss them.
-Come up with some intelligent questions to ask about the program.
-If you know who will be interviewing you, read up on them, and maybe read some of their papers.
I also have some maybes.
-Is it okay to ask them, "Is there anything in particular you would like me to prepare for the meeting, or be prepared to discuss?" Their answer could be informative, but asking that could seem unprofessional, or like you're asking for some kind of special treatment or information.
-Is it okay, when they haven't told you, to ask who will be interviewing you -- particularly when it is a panel interview?
How would you prepare? What do you think of asking my maybes?
So far I've come up with these definites:
-Take a close look at what you wrote in your application, and be prepared to discuss it in more detail.
-If you mentioned any particular faculty or students in your application, be prepared to discuss them.
-Come up with some intelligent questions to ask about the program.
-If you know who will be interviewing you, read up on them, and maybe read some of their papers.
I also have some maybes.
-Is it okay to ask them, "Is there anything in particular you would like me to prepare for the meeting, or be prepared to discuss?" Their answer could be informative, but asking that could seem unprofessional, or like you're asking for some kind of special treatment or information.
-Is it okay, when they haven't told you, to ask who will be interviewing you -- particularly when it is a panel interview?
How would you prepare? What do you think of asking my maybes?