Typically, two or three distinguished public servants, a university president, a former Truman Scholar, and the Executive Secretary or the Deputy Executive Secretary take part. A. Generally serious and sometimes challenging. Panelists pose questions to enable candidates to reveal their understanding of issues, breadth and limits of knowledge, thinking processes, and analytical abilities. They often take issue with one or two statements in the application.
Finalists frequently have to defend their opinions and priorities.
A. Typically, less than half, but it can vary greatly. Some questions, based in part on what you have presented and on courses you have taken, could be asked. Questions that seem irrelevant to you often help panelists make their assessments. Interviews sometimes resemble free-ranging town hall meetings or press conferences. Panelists rarely spend more than a few minutes asking questions on the policy proposal.