He says the Summer School looks for decisiveness, self-confidence, maturity and leadership.
But some students say they think interviewers could gauge those abilities without being so unfriendly.
David A. Sivak '00, who applied to be a proctor two years ago, described his interviewer as "not the most accommodating of people."
During Sivak's interview, the administrator described a scenario in which he is awakened at three in the morning by loud music. He goes into the room from which the music is blaring to discover eight students along with two six-packs of Budweiser on the floor.
A female student starts crying. She says she is from Wellesley summer school, and she wants to go home.
"What do you do?" the interviewer asked.
Sivak says he was caught off guard by the question and by how narrow the acceptable response was.
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