what do you wear to a university interview?

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I have an interview next week for a postgrad course. I am really scared but am distracting myself by worrying about what to wear. I have not been to an interview for ten years.

I have a varied wardrobe and nothing is jumping out at me. shall I:

1. buy something new (even though I am about to loose a stone)
2. wear black dress (long, boring) and buy a jacket
3. wear boring dress and black/grey cardigan as they do not award places on what you wear.

help!

Something you feel comfortable in......as you say they don't award places on what you wear, but don't look like you have slept in your clothes either!

something you feel confident in

I favour suits for interviews as they make me feel my most confident and capable.
Whatever you wear amke sure shirts are iron, shoes polished, hair tidy etc, not because the interviewere care but because it'll make you feel better,
Maybe black dress and new cardigan? (cheaper than jacket and more likely to wear it again)

They really don't care what you wear if you are going to uni.

Agree that they won't care how you dress, but make sure it's something low-maintenance and comfortable, if you are constantly pulling at something or worrying about something it will bugger up your concentration and make you look half-witted

thanks everyone, am really really scared still!

I went for a uni interview last year and wore a black skirt and a shirt with smart shoes, but all the 18 year olds were wearing jeans and trainers and no-one seemed to care! I don't think it really matters what you wear as long as it's smart and clean. Good luck!

Oh blimey, I spend ages doing postgrad interviews every year and we so don't care what people wear. We offered a place a few years ago to a bloke who arrived in a sweaty t-shirt with his iPod headphones strewn around his neck. What you say is orders of magnitude more important than what you wear

Agree. We really don't care what you wear. Much more interested in you as a person, your interest in the subject and any evidence that you have thought about it a bit!

Depends a bit on the course, I suppose - if it's a professional sort of course, specially at Masters level, it might be worth making sure you look like you can do the job.
Otherwise it really doesn't tend to be something academics care much about