Sample Interview Questions
Academic:
- What courses are you taking this year?
- Which are your favorite courses? Why?
- What is the most important thing you have learned in high school?
- Tell me about the best book you have read recently.
- What are your weaknesses as a student? How do you hope/try to overcome them?
- What are your strengths as a student?
- If someone gave you $1 million to do something to improve
your school, what would you do?
- Tell me about a significant high school experience.
- Which high school teacher left the biggest impact on you and why?
- If I were to speak with your friends – how would they describe you?
Personal:
- How did you spend your summer?
- What, in the past few years, has been a turning point for you?
- Are there activities you would like to pursue but haven’t?
- What extra curricular activities have you most enjoyed?
- Name a person you admire most and tell me why.
- Describe an experience where you dealt with a difficult situation and how you overcame it.
College Outlook:
- Describe your perfect school.
- What criteria are you using for your college search?
- What other colleges have you visited?
- Are you the first person in your family to go through the
college search?
- Have your parents been helpful/anxious/uninvolved with the process?
- Do you have any ideas about what you would like to do after college?
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