AdmissionsAddict

I am a longtime alumni interviewer. Every year, I see kids on CC worry about not having been offered an alumni interview. I am concerned that some applicants are offered an interview via email, but they don't look at their junk emails closely enough or they don't check the email account that they gave Yale on their applications. Alumni interview reports are due to Yale on February 15. Over the next six weeks, please keep a close eye on your email.

Some of you will not be offered an alumni interview because you live in a area without alumi resources. Those of you who live in metropolitan areas may also not receive interviews because there are so many applicants from your area that the alumni can't cover all of you (only a very small percentage of alumni volunteer as interviewers). The admissions office is aware of these problems and won't think that you are disinterested because there isn't an interview report in your file. Also, while some students who have interviewed on campus will participate in alumni interviews, in some regions they are given lowest priority because it's more important to interview applicants who haven't already been interviewed.

I am happy to answer any questions you have. CC posters have asked me what they should expect at their interview and I can only say that every interviewer has a different style. I suspect most interviewers are low-key and ask fairly predictable questions about academic and extracurricular interests.