<p>Jamescchen: Could you state how you are affiliated with MIT? (I’m a student at MIT right now) Because your reasoning is completely fubar. MIT Alums (99.99% of the time) want to help the school as best as they can. Do you really think the MIT alumni network in some area is going to suggest a lunatic? </p>
<p>Also the admissions office is not dumb. Usually Interviewers interview for many years. Admissions officers can establish a correlation between how qualified a student is and how qualified a particular interviewer is over a period of a few years.</p>
<p>Finally the interview is also partially to let the student get to know more about MIT.</p>