AdmissionsAddict

Interview reports are officially due on February 15. There are usually a few days of leeway, however. I suppose you could get an invitation as late as February 15. As I've said many times before, check your email every day. I bet a lot of invitations to interview wind up in junk mail and are deleted before a student who irregularly checks email sees it. The lack of volunteers explains why many people don't get interviews, but failure to check email probably also counts for quite a bit of confusion.

pswib

Great, thank you. I'll hold out for that notification until the very last day.

theheartyone

Hi, just wanted to bump my question...

when an alumni interviewer says "Please bring all relevant documents to your interview," what should I take?

sunae712

my interview was AMAZING.
my interviewer not only told me great stuff about the school, but it was fun chatting with him.

he told me i was sure to be in.

but ... how much of a say does he have in the matter?

T26E4

theheartyone: you should email the interviewer. Perhaps he/she means a resume -- that's all I can think of. AA's crystal ball hasn't been returned from the cleaners.

sunae712: I find your interviewer's prediction of your admission to be very unwise -- I would NEVER say such a thing because there is practically NO WAY I could predict it and all it could do is raise hopes without reason. If you read through the bulk of this thread, you'll understand the relative importance of the interview in your overall evaluation (very little). A great interview doesn't fortify other areas that may or may not be lacking in the applicant's file. Since your interviewer doesn't have access to any part of your file, any guess by him of your admission is wildly speculative.

Nonetheless, I'm glad you enjoyed the time and best of luck to you.

AdmissionsAddict

sunae--Your interviewer SHOULD NOT be telling applicants that they'll get in. His/her interview report matters only a very little and it's unfair to get an applicant's hopes up, especially if the applicant isn't on CC, hasn't been following this thread, and doesn't know that alumni interviews are the least important part of the application. It could really crush someone. I get very grouchy about bad interviewers.

heartyone--Agree with T26's advice, but add that the interviewer shouldn't ask you to bring anything. Hopefully, s/he reads the ASC newsletter that came out online today that reminded interviewers not to ask for resumes.

ChandlerBing

AdmissionsAddict: Just a warning to all prospective interviewees, my Yale interviewer did not ask me to bring anything, yet asked for my resume about halfway through the interview. Bring it just in case guys!

icfireball

AA:

Just curious...

Does Yale prioritize interviews in areas where there is a high volume of applicants/limited capacity of interviews? That is to say... does Yale request interviews with applicants they are specially interested in, or is it all random?

AdmissionsAddict

icf--Check my many previous posts on this topic throughout this thread (and T26's as well). Short answer: it's random.

icfireball

AA-- thanks for the response -- I'll try looking through the thread. That being, it's undoubtedly frustrating for you to answer questions repeatedly just as it's frustrating for me to search through a 30+ page thread. I feel like there should be some sorta of quasi-official FAQ from you T26E4 to collect and condense the questions that have been asked and their answers.

What do you think?

AdmissionsAddict

icf--This would work if there could be a locked thread that only T26 and I could post on. Otherwise, it will just turn into RD Applicants: Interview Advice 2.0. I'll check with the moderators and see what I can do.

ysbera

ahh my interview for Yale was, how can I put it eccentric.... My interviewer was a college history/english professor and we talked so much about epistemology, hamlet, Chinese government and etc... Not a normal interview. We didn't even talk about Yale and he never asked Why Yale?

ChandlerBing

ysbera: That's not a bad thing, interviews really don't matter much in the admissions process, and the fact that you could talk about somewhat obscure topics at length could be mentioned in your interviewer's rec.
Don't worry about it.

ysbera

oh I am not really worrying about it. It was just a very interesting interview or actually more like a discussion but yea I enjoyed it.

bicyclekick

questionnn

my interviewer mentioned to me that he'll find out my decision before i do, but he's not allowed to tell me what the decision is...is this true?? why would yale torture us by telling everyone except us about our decisions lol