下面是一些典型的面試題目：
1．What are your plan in 5 to 10 years?
2．What is your TOEFL score?
3．Do you apply any other school?
4．Is your research project very difficult?
5．If you are given an offer, can you come here this July?
6．What’s you graduate research work?
7．Why pursue Ph.D.?
8．Please introduce yourself.
9．Where are you from?
10．What’s your major?
11．Please tell me your working experience.
12．What will you plan to do in the future?
13．What’s your hobby? What do you do in your spare time?
14．If we give you this offer, will you accept it?
15．Why are you interested in *** University?
16．Why are you going to USA not staying your homeland to study?
17．Say something about your work, etc.
18．Who is the great person in the world in your eyes?
19．Do you have some question on me or on my institute?
20．Do you have any special or excellent idea during your research experience?
21．Did you use any English textbook in classes?
22．Will you like to study in a small but with high quality university or a big university like Harvard or Princeton?
23．Do you apply for other university or contact with other faculties in the university?
24．How about your ability to be a teaching assistant?
電話面試舉例（加州***分校）：
教授：我找***。
學生：yes, I am.
教授：Are you in your laboratory?
學生：Yeah.
教授：我十年前去過清華，做了演講，好像你那時在中學吧。
學生：Yeah.
教授：Your application material looks nice.
學生：Thanks!
教授：我注意到你用了三年時間完成碩士。##$$%%（聽不懂）
學生：在中國通常是這樣的。
教授：你研究生階段學了幾門課？
學生：十門左右。比如：***，****等。
教授：Good. 我看到你有一門課是%% and ##，是著重於%%還是##？
學生：著重於##，因為%%在本科也學過。（教授是重點研究##的）
教授：Good. 你做過*****研究嗎？
學生：是的。這項研究……
學生：我從網頁上了解到你的研究方向是******，很理論化，難道不和實驗相結合嗎？
教授：***###%%%（大段的論述，基本搞不清在說什麼，大概是說所謂的“理論”是什麼意思。當然還有做實
驗。）