Word: reardon
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...interview that allows a candidate to "come to life" can help him get in, but occasionally interviews also serve to reveal serious personal problems that destroy a candidate's chances for admission. Reardon told of a recent interview with an applicant who had "a lot of wacky things to say-I don't know what he was high on, but he was just spaced." Reardon followed up on the interview and discovered the candidate had problems that "the guys in the school were not going to say in writing...
...interview report differs substantially from the other information in a student's file, the admissions committee may disregard it. If the candidate was nervous or too quiet and reserved to come across well, Reardon said, "there is no way we are going to put a lot of concern on a 20-minute talk...
Some alumni, Reardon said, hold some "quite unusual" interview sessions. An alumnus, an auto company president, once complained to him about an interviewer in his area: "Do you know what this fellow does? He calls kids up at 9 o'clock and tells them to come over and doesn't let them out until 3 in the morning. When this one particular kid got home, his mother asked. 'What in the world happened?' and the kid replied. 'I can't tell you. I am sworn to secrecy...
When they encounter an alumni interviewer who is sending back inaccurate reports or damaging the school's reputation. Reardon and Jewett said they work subtly to have him switched to another kind of admission work. They can't "fire" anyone, since the alumni are all volunteers, but they can offer suggestions to the local alumni officials. Though they acknowledged that the committee must frequently compensate for the personal biases of an alumnus (i.e., a retired army colonel who can't stand anyone with more that 1:4 of an inch of hair), they said "bad" interviewers were fairly rare...
...interviewees vary in style as much as interviewers. Some come across quiet and withdrawn while others, such as Boston City Councilor Larry DiCara, make an unforgettable impression Reardon recalled his interview with DiCara at Boston Latin. "I said My name is Jack Reardon and he said [in a deep voice while giving a firm handshake] 'My name is Larry DiCara' and sat down One hour later I had not opened my mouth and I had to physically put him out the door. We both knew he was going to come here, but I couldn't believe he was for real...