1. What type of student are you now, and how is that different from a year ago?

2. How would you describe yourself as a student in one word?

3. What excites you most about going to law school?

4. What are you going to specifically contribute to the Columbia Law community?

5. Tell me about how you contributed to your community in college.

6. Tell me about your experience with your college.

1. Where are you located and what you are doing right now?

2. Do you have a thesis? What would you like to write about?

3. Why Law?

4. Why Columbia?

5. What do you like to do in your free time?

6. Do you have any questions?

7. What do you learned from your internship?

1. What have you been busy with?

2. Where do you see yourself in one or two years after graduation?

3. Why ED to Columbia Law?

4. Questions for me?

5. Why J.D. since you already have an education background in law and are qualified to practice law in China?

1. Tell me more about your work experiences.

2. How did you end up at your current employer?

3. How would you go about your first few weeks of 1L / what kind of student will you be?

4. Why are you applying to Columbia?

5. Where do you see yourself 5 years down the road?

1. Why philosophy as major? Since it does not seem to be useful in gaining employment (Note: this is a summary, Interviewer said it MUCH nicer than this)

2. Where do you see yourself 5 years from now in your career?

3. Why NYC?

4. Anything else you would like to know from me about Columbia and NYC?

5. I answered "Why law?" and "Why Columbia?" before Interviewer asked me by tying it in to other questions. I also stressed being a non-traditional student and asked questions regarding that. Towards the end, Interviewer asked me if I would be 100% committed to coming to Columbia if accepted. I answered immediately without a pause, mentioning that attending law school is a huge financial and time investment. I don't want to read in to it much, but I hope that was a good thing. The interview lasted 25m40s.

1. Why Columbia?

2. Where do you see yourself 5 years after law school graduation?

3. Why Columbia & why law?

4. Do you have questions for me?

5. [Specific questions tailored to individual's experience]

1. Why did you decide to go to [grad school]?

2. What do you want to do five years after graduating from law school?

3. Why Columbia Law?

4. When did you first start playing banjo?

5. What do you do to unwind?

6. Questions for me?

[The interview lasted about 20 min]

1. How did you end up [across the country] for college?

2. Why law

3. [Questions about professional experience.]

4. Why Columbia?

1. Please introduce yourself and describe your academic background.

2. What did you do in your graduate program? Why did you decide to go to graduate school?

3. What do you look for in law school when choosing law school?

4. What can you bring to Columbia Law School?

5. What kind of student do you think you were in university and graduate school?

6. Do you think you are going be active in the student community at Columbia?

7. How long did you live in New York and what do you think is the difference between the city that you live in and the city of New York?

8. I see that you took the LSAT many times. Can you explain the circumstances?

1. Describe your work history and how you went from [career in science] to [career in marketing] and now to law.

2. Describe your undergrad educational experience and your achievements while in school.

3. What do you look for in deciding to apply to a law school and what drew you to Columbia?

4. What kind of student to you expect to be?

5. Questions for us?

“Columbia basically asked me about things specific to my application. At the end, they asked me why Columbia but that was the only general question.”