Sample interview questions
These are questions that have been asked in the interviews.
General Questions:
What is the most important activity to you that is in your portfolio?
Why do you want to be sterling scholar?
Why are YOU the sterling scholar?
Why are good grades important?
What are your future plans?
Where do you plan on attending college? What are you planning on majoring in?
What do you want to become?
What is your biggest (greatest) strength?
Anything else we didn't ask and wasn't in your portfolio that you would like us to know?
Where do you see yourself in five years? 10 years?
It seems like you do a lot of different things, how do you deal with all of it and the stress that comes with it?
How do you do everything you do?
You put this portfolio together months ago. What have you accomplished since then that you would like to share with us?
What makes you stand out among twenty other applicants?
What qualities do you have that got you nominated as a Sterling Scholar?
What attributes do you have that have brought you to where you are today as a Sterling Scholar?
What's the one thing you want us to remember about you?
Are there any questions you think we should have asked?
What challenge have you had in high school?
What question should we have asked you so that you could brag about yourself?
Who was your most influential teacher in high school?
What, in your opinion, defines success?
What lifetime challenges have you had?
What is your favorite high school memory?
Why should we choose you?
What is your favorite class, besides your category?
Tell us about yourself.
Leadership Questions:
What do you believe is your greatest leadership quality?
Elaborate on PLT or your leadership qualities?
How has being MESA president helped you?
What have you learned from your leadership experience?
What makes you a good leader?
When it comes to leadership, what are 2 of your strengths and 2 of your weaknesses?
What leadership positions have you held?
How have you handled conflicts as a leader?
What is one word people would use to describe you as a leader?
What are you most proud of in leadership?
What leadership quality have you developed this year?
What was a significant learership position that you have been in and how has it affected you?
What is your greatest leadership achievement?
Do you think leadership is learned, or are you born with it?
What is the most important quality of a good leader?
Tell us about a time when you had to use leadership in conjunction with your community service.
Service Questions:
How have you been involved in the community?
How has your service affected you?
What have you learned from your service experience?
What has been the most meaningful service project and what was it's effect on you?
How did you find out about this type of project?
What service projects are you currently planning?
What service projects have you gotten together yourself?
Business and Marketing:
What was your favorite business class?
Can you explain to us what "Quiz Bowl" is?
Why do you want to be a business and marketing sterling scholar?
What did you learn from your marketing and business classes that you've taken?
Explain to us what the Jr. Women in business program is?
What type of promotion did you do with your retailing class? Can you give us an example?
Who is a business leader you look up to?
Why should you be the business and marketing sterling scholar?
How will being the business and marketing sterling scholar help you?
Computer Tech:
What do you do best computer wise?
How has computer technology helped you with your challenges in life?
How have you applied your computer skills outside of school and work?
Dance:
What is your solo about?
What was the hardest thing you've had to overcome with dance?
What was the hardest/important lesson you have learned from dance?
Did you choreograph this dance?
What do you think is important when choreographing?
You've been on both dc and drill, so what have you larned from both and how are they different?
Is it important for dancers to get good grades and why?
What does it mean to be in dance academics?
English:
What was your piece about?
Tell us how to write poetry...
who/what is your favorite poem/poet?
Favorite non-fiction book?
Favorite Author and fiction book?
If you wrote a story on today's generation, what would you write about and how would you write it?
How do you think English teachers should get kids excited about reading?
Who is your favorite Author?
What book has influenced you the most in your life?
What book/author should be required in the school system?
Asked about a novel of literary merit
Family and Consumer Sciences:
Why should FACS not be cut from school curriculums?
How has technology changed fashion?
What experiences have you had with FCCLA?
What would your FACS teachers say about you?
What prompted you to take all the FACS classes?
Are you general or specific FACS area?
Foreign Language:
in Spanish:
What Spanish speaking country would you like to travel to and why?
What similarities there are between Spanish and Greek?
Tell us about your summer.
Reenact for us your impromtu speech at the BYU language bowl.
What places do you want to go to that speak Spanish?
What are your interests?
What is your family like?
in the regular interview:
How long have you been speaking Spanish?
What are the differences between the concurrent Spanish class and the non concurrent?
Tell us about the Foreign Language bowl at BYU.
What is your greatest accomplishment in the field of your foreign language?
Tell us about this BYU language bowl.
How will your language affect what you want to do?
Instrumental Music:
How did the piece you play make you feel and what did it make you think of?
What is it like playing in Concerto Night at school?
Why did you choose the piece?
What service have you done through music?
How can you advocate music in schools amidst budget cuts and such?
How do you apply jazz band to orchestra?
How long have you been working on your piece?
What instruments do you play?
How is playing your concerto with piano different than playing with the orchestra?
Why the accordian?
What do you know about the history or the accordian?
What has your instructor told you your greatest strengths are?
Science:
What was your favorite subject in science?
What was your favorite biology subject?
How can what you learned in biology relate to you wanting to go into the medical field?
What is the difference between cellular respiration and photosynthesis?
What is your background in Science?
What awards have you received?
What research have you done?
Who was your most infulential teacher?
What science are you involved in outside of school?
Do you believe science experiments should be limited or not?
What quality should a good scientist have?
Social Science:
If you could meet any person dead or alive, who would you choose and more importantly what would you ask them?
What is one social issue we are faced with today?
What do you think the Founding Fathers' purpose was in writing the constitution?
What role do you think the Founding Fathers' wanted government to have?
What influence does the constitution have on the world?
Which historical figure do you personally connect with?
Speech/Drama:
What is your acting method?
How do you get into character?
How will your leadership in Speech and drama impact your future?
If you were the size of a pencil and you were trapped in a blender, how would you get out?
Tell me about ASL and how does it relate to theatre?
What is your dream role?
Trade and Technical Education:
Do you have any props?
Have you taken any auto courses in High School?
What is the most challenging project you have accomplished? Explain
How have you used skills gained during trade and tech projects in school and society?
How will your skill set help you and develop in the future?
What innovations do you see coming from your preferred field?
Visual Arts:
What artist influences you or that your work is similar to?
Tell me about your work.
What do you think is your strongest piece?
Vocal Performance:
How will you strive to keep your standards and values as you pursue a career in performing?
Talk about your experience as choir president.
Why did you choose your song?/Why do you like it?
Who is your hero?
Math:
Why choose math? What does it mean to you?
What is your greatest achievement in the area of mathematics?
Logic reasoning examples with doors.
Ring temperature model.
What is a derivative and what is it used for?
Everything from geometry to algebra to calculus to trig....
Find the length of a chord in a circle
The community property is AxB=BxA. Give me a non-numerical example.
solve the following problems-
General Questions:
What is the most important activity to you that is in your portfolio?
Why do you want to be sterling scholar?
Why are YOU the sterling scholar?
Why are good grades important?
What are your future plans?
Where do you plan on attending college? What are you planning on majoring in?
What do you want to become?
What is your biggest (greatest) strength?
Anything else we didn't ask and wasn't in your portfolio that you would like us to know?
Where do you see yourself in five years? 10 years?
It seems like you do a lot of different things, how do you deal with all of it and the stress that comes with it?
How do you do everything you do?
You put this portfolio together months ago. What have you accomplished since then that you would like to share with us?
What makes you stand out among twenty other applicants?
What qualities do you have that got you nominated as a Sterling Scholar?
What attributes do you have that have brought you to where you are today as a Sterling Scholar?
What's the one thing you want us to remember about you?
Are there any questions you think we should have asked?
What challenge have you had in high school?
What question should we have asked you so that you could brag about yourself?
Who was your most influential teacher in high school?
What, in your opinion, defines success?
What lifetime challenges have you had?
What is your favorite high school memory?
Why should we choose you?
What is your favorite class, besides your category?
Tell us about yourself.
Leadership Questions:
What do you believe is your greatest leadership quality?
Elaborate on PLT or your leadership qualities?
How has being MESA president helped you?
What have you learned from your leadership experience?
What makes you a good leader?
When it comes to leadership, what are 2 of your strengths and 2 of your weaknesses?
What leadership positions have you held?
How have you handled conflicts as a leader?
What is one word people would use to describe you as a leader?
What are you most proud of in leadership?
What leadership quality have you developed this year?
What was a significant learership position that you have been in and how has it affected you?
What is your greatest leadership achievement?
Do you think leadership is learned, or are you born with it?
What is the most important quality of a good leader?
Tell us about a time when you had to use leadership in conjunction with your community service.
Service Questions:
How have you been involved in the community?
How has your service affected you?
What have you learned from your service experience?
What has been the most meaningful service project and what was it's effect on you?
How did you find out about this type of project?
What service projects are you currently planning?
What service projects have you gotten together yourself?
Business and Marketing:
What was your favorite business class?
Can you explain to us what "Quiz Bowl" is?
Why do you want to be a business and marketing sterling scholar?
What did you learn from your marketing and business classes that you've taken?
Explain to us what the Jr. Women in business program is?
What type of promotion did you do with your retailing class? Can you give us an example?
Who is a business leader you look up to?
Why should you be the business and marketing sterling scholar?
How will being the business and marketing sterling scholar help you?
Computer Tech:
What do you do best computer wise?
How has computer technology helped you with your challenges in life?
How have you applied your computer skills outside of school and work?
Dance:
What is your solo about?
What was the hardest thing you've had to overcome with dance?
What was the hardest/important lesson you have learned from dance?
Did you choreograph this dance?
What do you think is important when choreographing?
You've been on both dc and drill, so what have you larned from both and how are they different?
Is it important for dancers to get good grades and why?
What does it mean to be in dance academics?
English:
What was your piece about?
Tell us how to write poetry...
who/what is your favorite poem/poet?
Favorite non-fiction book?
Favorite Author and fiction book?
If you wrote a story on today's generation, what would you write about and how would you write it?
How do you think English teachers should get kids excited about reading?
Who is your favorite Author?
What book has influenced you the most in your life?
What book/author should be required in the school system?
Asked about a novel of literary merit
Family and Consumer Sciences:
Why should FACS not be cut from school curriculums?
How has technology changed fashion?
What experiences have you had with FCCLA?
What would your FACS teachers say about you?
What prompted you to take all the FACS classes?
Are you general or specific FACS area?
Foreign Language:
in Spanish:
What Spanish speaking country would you like to travel to and why?
What similarities there are between Spanish and Greek?
Tell us about your summer.
Reenact for us your impromtu speech at the BYU language bowl.
What places do you want to go to that speak Spanish?
What are your interests?
What is your family like?
in the regular interview:
How long have you been speaking Spanish?
What are the differences between the concurrent Spanish class and the non concurrent?
Tell us about the Foreign Language bowl at BYU.
What is your greatest accomplishment in the field of your foreign language?
Tell us about this BYU language bowl.
How will your language affect what you want to do?
Instrumental Music:
How did the piece you play make you feel and what did it make you think of?
What is it like playing in Concerto Night at school?
Why did you choose the piece?
What service have you done through music?
How can you advocate music in schools amidst budget cuts and such?
How do you apply jazz band to orchestra?
How long have you been working on your piece?
What instruments do you play?
How is playing your concerto with piano different than playing with the orchestra?
Why the accordian?
What do you know about the history or the accordian?
What has your instructor told you your greatest strengths are?
Science:
What was your favorite subject in science?
What was your favorite biology subject?
How can what you learned in biology relate to you wanting to go into the medical field?
What is the difference between cellular respiration and photosynthesis?
What is your background in Science?
What awards have you received?
What research have you done?
Who was your most infulential teacher?
What science are you involved in outside of school?
Do you believe science experiments should be limited or not?
What quality should a good scientist have?
Social Science:
If you could meet any person dead or alive, who would you choose and more importantly what would you ask them?
What is one social issue we are faced with today?
What do you think the Founding Fathers' purpose was in writing the constitution?
What role do you think the Founding Fathers' wanted government to have?
What influence does the constitution have on the world?
Which historical figure do you personally connect with?
Speech/Drama:
What is your acting method?
How do you get into character?
How will your leadership in Speech and drama impact your future?
If you were the size of a pencil and you were trapped in a blender, how would you get out?
Tell me about ASL and how does it relate to theatre?
What is your dream role?
Trade and Technical Education:
Do you have any props?
Have you taken any auto courses in High School?
What is the most challenging project you have accomplished? Explain
How have you used skills gained during trade and tech projects in school and society?
How will your skill set help you and develop in the future?
What innovations do you see coming from your preferred field?
Visual Arts:
What artist influences you or that your work is similar to?
Tell me about your work.
What do you think is your strongest piece?
Vocal Performance:
How will you strive to keep your standards and values as you pursue a career in performing?
Talk about your experience as choir president.
Why did you choose your song?/Why do you like it?
Who is your hero?
Math:
Why choose math? What does it mean to you?
What is your greatest achievement in the area of mathematics?
Logic reasoning examples with doors.
Ring temperature model.
What is a derivative and what is it used for?
Everything from geometry to algebra to calculus to trig....
Find the length of a chord in a circle
The community property is AxB=BxA. Give me a non-numerical example.
solve the following problems-
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