{"id":276,"date":"2009-06-01T09:47:08","date_gmt":"2009-06-01T13:47:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/admissions.me.holycross.edu\/?p=276"},"modified":"2009-06-01T09:47:08","modified_gmt":"2009-06-01T13:47:08","slug":"yet-another-benefit-of-interviewing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.holycross.edu\/admissions\/2009\/06\/01\/yet-another-benefit-of-interviewing\/","title":{"rendered":"Yet Another Benefit of Interviewing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-411\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.holycross.edu\/admissions\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/27\/2009\/11\/JuliaSanders.jpg\" alt=\"JuliaSanders\" width=\"105\" height=\"150\" \/> I just finished up my first interview of the new season.\u00a0\u00a0 I must admit, prior to the interview, the rainy day was making me feel a little \u201cblah.\u201d\u00a0\u00a0 But there\u2019s just something about a nice conversation with someone that makes me smile.\u00a0\u00a0 She didn\u2019t have to do any magic tricks or back flips, or cure cancer, or bring me cookies (my favorite is chocolate chip with walnuts). (And no, you are not supposed to bring me cookies). (Unless you <em>reeeeallly<\/em> want to).\u00a0 All she had to do was show up, and have a conversation.\u00a0 She told me about her interests in service, law, and art;\u00a0 we talked about the new <em>Star Trek<\/em> movie;\u00a0 and we reminisced about how beautiful western Massachusetts can be when there aren\u2019t so many tourists around.<\/p>\n<p>She did a great job, and she made my day just a little brighter.<\/p>\n<p>So what should you take away from this?\u00a0 That in addition to helping you get into college, and giving you insider information on whichever colleges you\u2019re considering,\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 interviewing makes admissions folks smile, and that never hurts.<\/p>\n<p>Julia Sanders<br \/>\nAdmissions Counselor<\/p>\n<p><em>On-campus interviews are available now through December. To arrange an on-campus interview, please call the Admissions Office at 1-800-442-2421.\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.holycross.edu\/admissions\/apply\/#interview\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">For more information, please see our Web site. <\/a><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I just finished up my first interview of the new season.\u00a0\u00a0 I must admit, prior to the interview, the rainy day was making me feel a little \u201cblah.\u201d\u00a0\u00a0 But there\u2019s just something about a nice conversation with someone that makes me smile.\u00a0\u00a0 She didn\u2019t have to do any magic tricks or back flips, or cure &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.holycross.edu\/admissions\/2009\/06\/01\/yet-another-benefit-of-interviewing\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Yet Another Benefit of Interviewing&#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":[15],"tags":[122,123],"class_list":["post-276","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-julia-sanders","tag-interview","tag-interview-tips"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.holycross.edu\/admissions\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/276","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=276"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.holycross.edu\/admissions\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/276\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.holycross.edu\/admissions\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=276"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.holycross.edu\/admissions\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=276"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.holycross.edu\/admissions\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=276"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}