TYPE OF QUESTIONS YOU MAY BE ASKED DURING THE INTERVIEW

1. Do you have any contemporary heroes? Historical heroes?

2. If I visited your school for a few days, what would I find is your role in the school
community?
3. What would your teachers say were your greatest strengths as a person – as a student?
4. Likewise what about your shortcomings or weaknesses?
5. What kind of self-development do you wish to see in yourself in the next four years?
6. What do you feel is the important weak point you would like to overcome in the next
four years?
7. What is the most significant contribution you’ve made to your school?
8. What will be the “good life” for you twenty years from now? Any ideas on this?
9. Where and when do you find yourself most stimulated intellectually?
10. What is your reason for participating in athletics? What are the satisfactions?
11. If our roles were reversed, what would you like to know about me so that you could make
an intelligent and fair decision on my application for admission or, better still, on my
competence as your interviewer?
12. Since you are interested in science, math (where appropriate), why are you
interested in a liberal arts college rather than a more technical institution?
13. How and in what ways do you expect, plan, and hope to transfer your secondary school
contributions, achievements, and activities to the college level?
14. Are you really satisfied with your accomplishments, growth, etc? To date?
15. What books or articles have made a lasting impression on your way of thinking? Have
you read deeply into any one author or field?
16. What events would you deem crucial in your life thus far?
17. What pressures do you feel operating on you in society to conform? Describe ways in
which you and your friends “go your own way.”
18. What are your reactions to current events?
19. Describe some things that you have really become indignant over in the past year.
20. How would you describe yourself as a person?
21. What do you feel sets you apart as an individual in your school?
22. If I could hand you my telephone and let you talk to any one person living, to whom
would you like to talk? Why?
23. Have you ever thought of not going to college? What would you do?
24. Describe your home environment as compared to that of your closest friend.
25. If you were just chosen as the headmaster in your school, what would be your first move?