Interview Panels and Presentations?

[psyhopeful2020]

Hi GradCafe family! 

Have my first of a few in-person interviews coming up this week, and I'm pretty excited and nervous. Question for those who have done in-persons- it looks like generally there's quite a bit of time allocated for presentations and panels for all the interviewing grad students. This might be a ridiculous question, but what are the expectations around participation/asking questions at these presentations? I'm more of an active listener than question asker myself, but want to mentally prepare in case that expectation is part of the process!

[Clinapp2017]

13 hours ago, psyhopeful2020 said:

Hi GradCafe family! 

Have my first of a few in-person interviews coming up this week, and I'm pretty excited and nervous. Question for those who have done in-persons- it looks like generally there's quite a bit of time allocated for presentations and panels for all the interviewing grad students. This might be a ridiculous question, but what are the expectations around participation/asking questions at these presentations? I'm more of an active listener than question asker myself, but want to mentally prepare in case that expectation is part of the process!

It's always good to ask questions if you have them, but don't monopolize the conversation obviously. If you like to listen, that's perfectly fine, too.

[PsycUndergrad]

If you have actual questions, that’s great, but you don’t have to force it. It’s pretty obvious when people ask questions just for the sake of asking questions. It’s more important to have questions for the individual interviews.