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01-14-2008, 10:29 PM
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#1 | | Junior Member
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| Interview For All?
does brown have an interview for all their applicants? just wondering if i should be extra excited
ps. how was the interview? those who had one | 
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01-15-2008, 12:30 AM
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#2 | | Member
Join Date: Mar 2007 Location: Columbia '12
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| No not everyone gets an interview.. | |
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01-15-2008, 01:31 AM
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#3 | | Member
Join Date: Nov 2007 Location: Los Angeles Gender: Female
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| akiiriah!! hi :-) | |
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01-15-2008, 01:53 AM
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#4 | | Member
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| Hey fringey! =)
It's been a while! | |
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01-15-2008, 06:23 PM
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#5 | | Member
Join Date: Jul 2005 Location: Long Island, NY, but son at Brown and one at Five Towns College
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| Interviews usually depend on if there is an alum in the area who can schedule it. If not, don't sweat it but if you can, it's good to have one and have some questions answered as well as they getting to know you. | |
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01-15-2008, 10:15 PM
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#6 | | Senior Member
Join Date: Dec 2004 Location: Oregon / Providence
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| everyone gets an alumni interview if they request it
they have little to no bearing on admissions, unless they were to report you were a total crack pot.
because here's the deal: almost every applicant to brown is articulate, well spoken, interesting, and accomplished. almost everyone has a great interview. so how do they differentiate?
they don't.
they are to satiate a nervous applicant population and nothing more imho... | |
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01-18-2008, 03:31 AM
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#7 | | Member
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| ^^^^
The same argument can be made about the rest of the admissions process. Ultimately, the decision for most candidates hangs on rather arbitrary and subjective choices. | |
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01-18-2008, 08:34 AM
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#8 | | Senior Member
Join Date: Dec 2004 Location: Oregon / Providence
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| but the difference is that anything in your actual application is seen first hand by the adcom, not a third party. and i would wager they are better trained to pick out what they want, and less likely to go bonkers over everyone they see.
the arbitrary and subjective choices of interviewers probably don't matter. the ones of the adcom determine who gets in! | |
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01-19-2008, 07:15 PM
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#9 | | Junior Member
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| Wait, you have to request an interview? On the website it just said they would contact you once you submitted your application. They haven't contacted me yet so I was wondering.... | |
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01-19-2008, 07:44 PM
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#10 | | Member
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| Wait... I thought Brown didn't offer off-campus interviews. I've been contacted for a conversation with an alumnus about Brown, but he said it wasn't an interview. I don't think they're actually considered in the admissions process...? I could be wrong. The US News World Report book also says that off-campus interviews aren't offered for Brown...Hmm. | |
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01-19-2008, 09:41 PM
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#11 | | Member
Join Date: Mar 2007 Location: Columbia '12
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| well this mom of a girl at my school is interviewing all the applicants from my school.
the interview is scheduled to last 15 minutes each...which sucks because 15 minutes is like nothing haha. | |
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01-19-2008, 10:54 PM
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#12 | | Junior Member
Join Date: Mar 2007 Location: Somewhere awesome.
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| Getting an interview doesn't mean anything---I was contacted for my interview less than 24 hours after I submitted my appliaction because there are a lot of alumni in my area. I don't think it's considered a huge part of the appliacation process---my interviewer spent basically the entire time gushing about her experience and barely asked me a question about myself. Haha. | |
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01-20-2008, 02:30 AM
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#13 | | Member
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| ^ I think it's more of a resource for the applicant to get to know more about Brown. That's probably why she didn't ask you much about yourself. | |
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01-20-2008, 08:00 PM
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#14 | | Junior Member
Join Date: Dec 2007
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| #9: I don't think you can request one. I didn't get one (my friend who lives in the same area did) and I emailed them. They basically gave me the templated answer of how it wont affect my chances. But i still worry. Bah. | |
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01-21-2008, 12:28 AM
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#15 | | Member
Join Date: Nov 2007 Location: Los Angeles Gender: Female
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| I want an interview.... I live in LA, so hopefully that will work for me, rather than against me.
P.S. Miss you akiiriah! Haha and i miss the crazy post-wars on the Yale thread | |
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