How to help your child prepare for college interviews

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Chances are if you have a girl, she will have already prepared for her college interview with the college admissions rep weeks before, picking out her outfit, practicing in the mirror. If you have a boy, you're going to probably have to help him find his shoes if he does have shoes that morning. So start thinking about it. You might also tell your teen to Google the person who's going to be interviewing them the week before or the day before at least and to get an idea what kind of business they're in, ask about why they study their major, don't talk politics. And if you're at Starbucks, don't order a messy drink or a memorable drink that this going to seem like a comedy to them.

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JD Rothman

Author, Blogger & College Pundit

JD Rothman, the author of the L.A. Times bestseller The Neurotic Parent's Guide to College Admissions, started her popular satirical blog TheNeuroticParent.com while on an eight-state college tour with her older son. She frequently appears on panels with admission officers, and blogs about the insanity of the college process for the Huffington Post. A former instructor of remedial freshman composition, Rothman's day job is as an Emmy-winning children's television writer, producer and lyricist, but she also has a famous blog satirizing the college admissions process, www.theneuroticparent.com. In 2012 the blog morphed into the LA Times Bestseller, "The Neurotic Parent's Guide to College Admissions." She grew up in Brooklyn, and resided in several Latin American countries before settling in Santa Monica, where she and her husband live in their emptying nest. She prepared for none of her careers in college.

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Chances are if you have a girl, she will have already prepared for her college interview with the college admissions rep weeks before, picking out her outfit, practicing in the mirror. If you have a boy, you're going to probably have to help him find his shoes if he does have shoes that morning. So start thinking about it. You might also tell your teen to Google the person who's going to be interviewing them the week before or the day before at least and to get an idea what kind of business they're in, ask about why they study their major, don't talk politics. And if you're at Starbucks, don't order a messy drink or a memorable drink that this going to seem like a comedy to them.