Celebrate or not?

AdmissionsAddict
Thu, 09 Feb 2006 01:42:30 +0000

Big grain of salt. Your interviewer doesn’t know what the applicant pool looks like. He only knows what the people he has interviewed look like. He probably gave you a “9”, the highest rating an interviewee can receive. A “9” is to be given to interviewees who are 1 in 100 in the Yale pool. That being said, I remember getting a statistic in the newsletter they send to interviewers that said 25% (I can’t remember the exact number, but I think that’s close) of interviewees who get a “9” are accepted. That’s because many interviewers just don’t realize how competitive the Yale pool is.