STANFORD: I interviewed for Stanford around the end of January 2018. The interview was set up to be held in a restaurant. It took almost an hour to reach but I still managed to reach 15 minutes before my interviewer arrived. The interviewer was a highly qualified businessman with his own start-up and I expected the interview to be a difficult one. Before my interview, I brushed up on news, start-up scenes in India as well as around the world, and read the latest technology trends. I got quite nervous right before the interview, but all my nerves calmed down once the...

DUKE: My interview was scheduled at a nearby Starbucks. I reached 20 minutes before the interview and just sipped on some water to cool my nerves. After he arrived, we had a casual greeting – he asked me if I wanted some coffee, I said I’m fine, thank you. As I did do some stalking, I came to know he was an engineer at a top firm, so I prepared on my technical knowledge and prepared for whatever questions that I thought he might throw at me. BUT, my interviewer was this really chill dude who was pretty young and he...

Princeton University: I applied to Princeton RD, and had my alumni interview in Mid-Feb. On the Princeton website, it says they try and interview 100% of the applicant-pool so getting an interview is not an indicator of your application status, unlike other universities. I had a phone interview with an alumnus who had just graduated in 2017. My interview experience was pleasant overall...