hiii rafaela

does anyone known how brown weighs the interviews in their decision?

my interview with my brown alum was amazing and we talked for almost 2 hours and it really made me love the school. but my interview for another school -which shall remain nameless- was so bad (actually when i was asking the guy a question i accidentally said brown instead of the real school haha...i couldn't really tell if he noticed though i didn't say it too loud... that might be a deal breaker). but i felt like he wasn't trying to get to know me, just going through a list of questions, he was nice though. the interview lasted 25 minutes max and the guy was late. so sometimes interviews can reveal a lot about the person, but other times it doesn't. its basically asking them to make a judgment of the person and you cant do that too well in 25 minutes. anyways im ranting...

my dad was interviewer for brown and he said that they just ask them to write a paragraph about their impressions of the person, how interested they are in the school, etc.

sammy2

My son appiled to Brown, did not get an interview... he has at the other schools he has appiled to ... good sign? bad sign? Please tell me.

jmldouglas

sammy2
my daughter also applied and did not get an interview so I would be interested
also in what that might mean.

akybaky

i doubt it means anything. a girl at my school go into Brown ED without an interview this year. they probably just didn't have any available alumni in your area that could interview you guys.

BunsenBurner

It probably means that there were no alums in your area available to interview your kids. I would not treat is a big rejection sign. Interviews at Brown are "optional".

treemaven

Hopefully, the lack of an interview isn't a death knell. My daughter received a contact for an interview date, but it was for a location half a continent away. She contacted the interviewer and explained that she couldn't possibly make the travel arrangements for that interview on that short notice as they would be both cost prohibitive and she was due in another city for an audition. The interviewer very kindly said, "no problem" and that she would forward my daughter's material to the correct place to (hopefully) arrange an interview in the city in which my daughter actually lives.

In addition, the interviewer explained that my daughter's information was originally sent to Florida because that is the address of her high school. We actually live in a midwestern city, which is where this interviewer was. So, the assignment made some sense, but my daughter lives in a city on the West Coast where she is in training for the year after graduating high school early. But she didn't put a 'school' address anywhere on her college applications--which was a good thing because at the time she actually did the applications, she lived on the eastern seaboard. We thought it best to have all mail come to her home address.

Ultimately, I'm not sure she was able to get the interview set up in her city or to have a phone interview with the midwestern-based interview due to travel and time changes . . . .

(Just a little complicated for purposes of this college deal. Oh, and her guidance counsellor from the Florida school is located in Texas . . . . Yes, we definitely had fun trying to co-ordinate times for phone calls, snail mail for signatures, deadlines to each coast. That's why we did everything in October . . . . .)

purplegirl

My D called the admissions office the end of Feb. They told her they were overwhelmed with applicants this year and the alums couldn't interview everyone in our area. She was told therefore, no interview but it would not be held against her. Hope this helps.