Interview Guidelines

Write a 20-30 second introduction of yourself.

PERSONAL OBJECTIVES AND ACADEMICS

  1. What do you enjoy most about school?
  2. How do you like to spend your time after school?
  3. Describe your biggest challenge at school.
  4. Do you feel it’s important to be involved in extra-curricular activities? Please explain.
  5. What did you do as a member of ______?
  6. How has participation in ______affected you personally?

ACTIVITIES

  1. Describe the type of community service activities that you are involved in or would like to be involved in?
  2. What meaningful experiences did you have as a ______?
  3. What kinds of skills have you acquired as a ______that will help you in a future job?
  4. In what other activities would you like to have participated: how would they help you in the future?

COMMUNITY INTERESTS AND ACTIVITIES

  1. How do you feel your current activities (school and/or out-of school activities) will benefit you in the future?
  2. What would you like to accomplish in the next five years?
  3. Perhaps you would share with us some of your dreams for the future.
  4. What are some of the things you would like to do upon graduation?

ACHIEVEMENTS

  1. What has been your greatest achievement?
  2. What are you most proud of having accomplished to this point in your life?
  3. What is the most important skill you have developed that will help you for the rest of your life?

INFLUENCES AND VALUES

  1. Who do you consider to be the most influential person in your life?
  2. How has this person influenced your personal growth?
  3. What values do you consider to have most strongly influenced your life?
  4. What is the best advice you have ever been given?
  5. What is the worst advice you have ever been given?
  6. What family traditions are especially meaningful to you?
  7. What is the nature of leadership? Who is the best example of a leader you personally know? Explain what makes that person such a good leader.

MISCELLANEOUS IDEAS

  1. What personal quality do you possess that will benefit society or your community and why?
  2. If you could solve a social problem, what would it be, and how do you think you would solve it?
  3. How do you set the bar higher for yourself and others?
  4. What role do you typically playin group projects?
  5. How do you define "out-of-the-box" thinking?
  6. How do you define a lifelong learner?
  7. Do you have a preference between structured and unstructured activities, and if so, which kind andwhy?
  8. What's a recent example in your life of having to learn a lesson the hard way?
  9. Describe the best day of your life.
  10. Describe the worst day of your life.
  11. What do you believe is the biggest challenge that the world faces today?

FUN QUESTIONS

  1. What is your favorite food or what has been the best meal of your life?
  2. What is your favorite game or activity?
  3. What is your favorite song? Why do you like it?
  4. What is a story, novel or poem that you will never forget? Why?
  5. What physical object in your house has special meaning to you?
  6. If you could travel anywhere, where would you go and why?
  7. What has been the favorite place you have visited?
  8. Which superpower would you want? Why?
  9. What is your favorite movie? Why?
  10. If you could have dinner with anyone in all of history, who would it be? Why?
  11. Imagine that you have just won $50 million in the lottery. What would you do with it?
  12. If you could be any animal, which would you choose? Why?
  13. Do you believe that earth has been visited by aliens from outer space? Do you have any evidence for this belief?
  14. Do you believe in ghosts? Do you have any evidence for this belief?
  15. What do you predict will be the most amazing invention in the next twenty years?