How to Ace Your High-Impact Org Interview
At Texas A&M University, the road to success is paved by selection into high-impact organizations: elite clubs with elusive mission statements about leadership and personal development. To gain entry into such organizations, Texas A&M students sit through awkward group interviews and compete to tell the best story. As applicants stumble through the mind-boggling paradoxes of speaking too much or too little, these selection processes prove to be totally vibe-dependent. To help, we have come up with these research-backed tips that will make sure you ace your upcoming interview and achieve extreme intentionality and depth.
1. Get a ChatGPT summary on an overread book before the interview.
Have you read Atomic Habits? What about Outliers? Probably not…get a summary from ChatGPT, pick two to three points from the book and then relate everything back to this life-changing book you may or may not have read. This is KEY in showing that you are interesting, well-read, and leading a purposeful life. Best of all, it’s pretty hard to get caught and extremely likely that everyone in your group interview did the same thing.
2. Master the humble brag…and maybe lie a little?
Did you intern at the White House last semester? Have you co-founded a tech start-up? Are you doing research at the National Institute of Health this summer? If your answer is no…make something up!
3. Use those buzzwords, girl!
Purposeful. Impactful. Intentional. Pragmatic. Transformative. Paradigm. Those Abbott, Fellows, Titans and Maroon Coats interviewers won’t be ready for your stellar vocabulary, and whether or not you know what paradigm even means, using it will make you sound intelligent and cool.
4. Name drop to the deepest depths of your social network.
Yes, having stalked their Instagram once counts as knowing someone. Bonus points if you can shout out their whole friend group, refer to them by their house name or mention every @ in their bio.
Our researchers are sure these tips will take you far into the application process, and maybe even get you in. If they don’t, maybe you’re just not that interesting!
— Panty Hopping & Hump-it Dumpty
For Panty Hopping, nothing feels more liberating than a comforting swim in the waters of Rudder Fountain. Her articles are all written after her refreshing wades in the waters of the many ponds on campus, and the mysterious liquid masquerading as water within these ponds renders her unable to recall writing her articles. She asserts she is not liable for anything written within them, and that the blood, sweat and tears of Aggies long gone that she has absorbed through her swims in the mystical ponds are the lifeblood of her writing. Sure, Panty Hopping might be seen applying to every organization on campus or in the Instagram comments of that girl in your Math 140 class three semesters ago. Still, her true passion lies in swimming in the glorious ponds on campus.