GUYS!!! I had a horrible interview and received an interview review form from SUTD, and I really, really don't know if I should write the feedback or should I just glaze them and be like, " Whoa, what great interviewers, and amazing management," and all that?
I genuinely don’t know whether to laugh, cry, or just sleep for 14 hours after my SUTD interview 😭
First of all, my interview slot was at 1:30 PM. They admitted me at 1:45 and then immediately told me to hurry because we only had around 20 minutes left. So from the START I was already stressed and mentally thrown off.
Then they rapid-fired everything together:
“Tell us about yourself.”
“Why architecture?”
“Why SUTD?”
“Share your portfolio.” THEY ASKED ALL THESE QUESTIONS TOGETHER AND THEN EXPECTED ME TO ANSWER EVERYTHING TOGETHER.
also,
PORTFOLIO??????
NOBODY TOLD ME THEY WOULD ASK TO SEE IT LIVE 😭
And the funniest part is that I technically DO have creative work, but not a proper polished architecture portfolio. So I was scrambling trying to show random things while simultaneously explaining that most of my work is conceptual/artistic rather than architectural.
THEN they asked if I had software experience. I said yes, AutoCAD from my furniture design internship. Then they asked me to SHOW the work from the internship.
BRO.
THE FILES WEREN’T EVEN ON MY COMPUTER.
And because a lot of the designs were collaborative/reference-based work from the studio, I said I didn’t feel comfortable presenting them as fully original work. Then one interviewer kind of lightly chastised me and went:
“We don’t expect geniuses.”
WHICH MADE ME FEEL EVEN MORE FLUSTERED 😭
So then I panicked and said I could send the work later through email.
THEN they asked where else I applied and I said NUS, and then they asked:
“Why NUS and why SUTD?”
I answered the SUTD part well actually, but my brain FULLY short-circuited afterward and I literally asked:
“Do you want to know why NUS or just why SUTD?”
LIKE GIRL WHAT 😭😭😭
And now I’m sitting here replaying every sentence I said.
The worst part is I actually CARE about SUTD and ASD a lot, so now, naturally, my brain has decided this was the worst interview conducted in human history.
Guys okay so im international applicant (asd which btw I haven’t seen a lot of students of 😭🙏) I got the interview invite almost a week and a half ago for 30th April but then on 28th they called early morning to tell me me they shifted my interview to 8th may?!??!?!? 😃🤚🤸♂️ I was like what?? sure what the hell 😔🤚 (like what could I even say 🥰🙏) anyways NOW i can’t stop my brain from thinking that did they shift me down because they suddenly realised they had better candidates to review before me 😃🔪🫀😭🙏
Anyways yeah got me overthinking a lot… so am I still being considered properly? Potentially? supposedly? 😭🤚
Also im giving my sat today but I did not mention that in the application, should I mail them the results just in case? (I applied with ielts)
(Applying with predicted, uee went well)