College Counselor Interview Questions
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College Counselor interview questions shared by candidates
Q: "There are three boxes. One contains yellow balls, one contains white balls, and one contains box white and yellow balls. You can't see in the boxes, but as soon as you pull out one ball from one box, you know which boxes contain which balls. How can you explain this?"
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Before I answered, the principal explained that "anyone can think creatively if they are familiar with the material, but this question allows us to measure creativity with structural ambiguity." So, there's that. I offered several answers that I thought were pretty creative -- but incorrect. After offering five or six different solutions, all of which were incorrect, I explained that I did not know the answer although I appreciated the point of the question. We never discussed the "answer" of the riddle and the interview concluded abruptly after that. Less
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You forgot to mention the most important point" you are told that each box is labeled incorrectly. And you can look inside of each box; it's not "take one ball out." Once you look in and see if they are white, yellow, or mixed, you mentally switch the labels on the other two boxes (which you have been told are labeled incorrectly and you know which box contains the two other categories. Less
Why do you want to work for UFC?
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Passion for education, experience, interest in foster population
How would your former supervisor describe your strengths and weaknesses?
