1. Tell me about yourself.

2. Why are you interested in our college?

3. What can I tell you about our college?
4. Who in your life has most influenced you?
5. Why do you want to major in ______________ ?
6. What will you contribute to our campus community?
7. Tell me about a challenge that you overcame.
8. What do you do for fun in your free time?
9. What do you see yourself doing 10 years from now?
10. Does your high school record accurately reflect your effort and ability?
11. Recommend a good book to me.
12. If you could do one thing in high school differently, what would it be?
13. What is one challenge you overcame?
14. What did you do this summer?
15. What do you do best?
16. What do you hope to do after graduation?
17. Why do you want to go to college?
18. How do you define success?
19. Who do you most admire?
20. What is your biggest weakness?
21. Tell me about your family.
22. What makes you special?
23. What can our college offer you that another college can't?
24. In college, what do you plan to do outside of the classroom?
25. What three adjectives best describe you?
26. What do you think about the latest news headline?
27. Who is your hero?
28. What historical figure do you most admire?
29. What high school experience was most important to you?
30. Who most helped you get to where you are today?
31. Tell me about your community service.
32. If you had a thousand dollars to give away, what would you do with it?
33. What subject in high school did you find the most challenging?
34. What are you doing this summer? What did you do last summer?
35. If I made you principal of your school, what would be some of the first changes you would make?
36. Is there any one room in your house that best describes your personality or character?
37. If I gave you a three-hour free shopping spree at a bookstore, what kind of books -reading material
would you get? What books would you leave on the shelves?
38. If I told you that you could take one friend on a trip any place in the world, who would you take and
where would you go? Why?
39. Tell me about your family - brothers and sisters. Are you a lot like them? How are you different?
40. Tell me about some of your extracurricular activities.
41. What are some of your favorite classes? Why?
42. What is your school like? How big is it? Do you have one best friend or a large number of friends?
How would you describe them?
43. What do you think are the most pressing issues facing the country today?
44. Do you have any heroes? Whom do you most admire?
45. As you think about all of your accomplishments, what are you most proud of achieving?
46. Please describe for me a difficult time or event in your life -- how did you handle it and what did you
learn from it?
47. If I could get your teachers together and ask them to describe you, what would they say? How about
your three closest friends - how would their description be different?
48. If you had an entire day free - no responsibilities, no homework, no job, describe for me how you
would spend the day?
49. What criteria are you using to choose a college? What is on your "wish list" for the perfect college?
50. How do you judge the academic strength of a school? What sorts of things do you consider?
51. If I were a prospective student to your high school, what would you like me to know about it? What
courses, activities, or characteristics would you describe?
52. What activity or event happened last year at your school would you say received the most attention or
was discussed the most?
53. What do you like to spend your free time doing -- outside of school, clubs, athletics?
54. What is your favorite time in history? Who would you like to go back and meet in that era?
55. Given one hour to talk to the President, what issue/issues would you discuss?
56. If I were to talk to your best friend, how would he/she describe you?
57. What one word best reveals or describes the real you?
58. If you could have a conversation with any three people from the present or from history who would
you choose and why?
59. If I could grant you one wish, what would you want?
60. What one place would you most like to visit?
61. What is the biggest problem in your school? In the U.S.?