面试中phD学生面试官的作用？

被AdCom邀请skype面试，总共两场，一场是faculty member，另一场是系里的一位phD学生。不太清楚一般面试里面phD学生作为面试官的话考察的主要是哪些方面，求有经验的同学介绍~

补充内容 (2016-2-13 04:57):
补充点：申的是phd，POI已经说我没问题，支持我去他的组，就是想让committee面试后让他们最后做个决定。这种情况下committee卡人的几率还大么？

申请博士？

感觉就是系里人手不够，拿phd来顶。。。

Try to think in this way and you may have some idea about why they asked a current student to interview you: Interview is not necessarily all about someone "testing" or "examining" how good you are, or someone "selecting" you. The most important part of a interview is to discover fit, that is, whether they feel you are a good fit for the program, and whether you feel the program is a good fit for you. Some information and concerns that are crucial to the mutual fit may be inconvenient or difficult to know during the discussion with a professor, but can be frankly talked about between students. Take it easy and think about what you can know from a current student/what you want to let him/her know.

yyd_yahoo 发表于 2016-2-12 01:38
感觉就是系里人手不够，拿phd来顶。。。

可是我POI的postdoc说committee里面有phD面很正常……但她没具体说是怎么样……

songsofsiren 发表于 2016-2-12 05:38
Try to think in this way and you may have some idea about why they asked a current student to interv ...

Thx for the info! That helps a lot :)

chantalchao 发表于 2016-2-12 17:26
可是我POI的postdoc说committee里面有phD面很正常……但她没具体说是怎么样……

对啊，这些年很多学校的申请量都暴涨，导致系里审材料的人手不足，很多学校都开始把senior的phd找来帮忙审材料，没什么好奇怪的呀。听说最早还是berkley带的头呢。

yyd_yahoo 发表于 2016-2-13 01:14
对啊，这些年很多学校的申请量都暴涨，导致系里审材料的人手不足，很多学校都开始把senior的phd找来帮忙 ...

原来乳齿。。。话说如果面试官不是感兴趣的导师，最后他们问有没什么问题要问的话，好不好问关于他所研究的东西或者相关的学术问题？我怕本来就不是很感兴趣，怕装逼失败…但不知道有什么比较好的问题值得提

xiadayang 发表于 2016-2-11 23:18
申请博士？

是的。。。。

chantalchao 发表于 2016-2-13 04:54
原来乳齿。。。话说如果面试官不是感兴趣的导师，最后他们问有没什么问题要问的话，好不好问关于他所研究 ...

不要装逼，也不用专门问跟他们相关的东西，你就把他们当成一个朋友，向他们咨询一些你关心的事情就好。