{"id":18,"date":"2008-12-11T10:25:00","date_gmt":"2008-12-11T14:25:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/admissions.me.holycross.edu\/2008\/12\/11\/i-want-an-interview-and-i-cant-get-one\/"},"modified":"2008-12-11T10:25:00","modified_gmt":"2008-12-11T14:25:00","slug":"i-want-an-interview-and-i-cant-get-one","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.holycross.edu\/admissions\/2008\/12\/11\/i-want-an-interview-and-i-cant-get-one\/","title":{"rendered":"I Want an Interview&#8230; and I Can&#8217;t Get One."},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/holycrossadmissionsblog.typepad.com\/.a\/6a00e54ed0db8e88330105365a165d970b-pi\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"at-xid-6a00e54ed0db8e88330105365a165d970b alignleft\" style=\"margin: 0px 5px 5px 0px\" src=\"http:\/\/me.holycross.edu\/blogimages\/6a00e54ed0db8e88330105365a165d970b-800wi\" border=\"0\" alt=\"Lynn\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nTwo months ago I wrote a blog about the importance of the interview.\u00a0 Many of you got the message.\u00a0 You probably got the same message if you attended an information session on campus or if you met a Holy Cross representative at your school this fall.\u00a0 You nodded, you understood, you made a mental note &#8212; and then you missed the deadline.\u00a0 Or you called our office recently and found out that we are booked solid through the end of the month.\u00a0 What now?\u00a0 Remember not just that we told you to have an interview, but what we said about why.\u00a0 We want to know you, and our full schedule does not change that fact.\u00a0 But unfortunately, that fact does not change our full schedule.\u00a0 So you may not be able to have an interview after all, but you can still help us to know you better.\u00a0 Some students choose to submit a letter or e-mail &#8220;filling in the blanks&#8221; that may exist in the absence of an interview.\u00a0 Such letters can provide additional information about accomplishments, interests and passions.\u00a0 They can answer some of the questions an interviewer might ask.<\/p>\n<p>If you write it, we&#8217;ll read it.\u00a0 So start filling in those blanks.<\/p>\n<p>Lynn Verrecchia<br \/>\nSr. Assistant Director of Admissions<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Two months ago I wrote a blog about the importance of the interview.\u00a0 Many of you got the message.\u00a0 You probably got the same message if you attended an information session on campus or if you met a Holy Cross representative at your school this fall.\u00a0 You nodded, you understood, you made a mental note &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.holycross.edu\/admissions\/2008\/12\/11\/i-want-an-interview-and-i-cant-get-one\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;I Want an Interview&#8230; and I Can&#8217;t Get One.&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":615,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[21],"tags":[48,75,122,123],"class_list":["post-18","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-lynn-verrecchia","tag-application-tips","tag-contact","tag-interview","tag-interview-tips"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.holycross.edu\/admissions\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.holycross.edu\/admissions\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.holycross.edu\/admissions\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.holycross.edu\/admissions\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/615"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.holycross.edu\/admissions\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.holycross.edu\/admissions\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.holycross.edu\/admissions\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.holycross.edu\/admissions\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.holycross.edu\/admissions\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}