Celebrate or not?

haukim
Thu, 09 Feb 2006 00:34:34 +0000

So I had my Yale interview today. The interviewer asked me to talk on random subjects I was interested in such as history. 15 minutes in, he decided he heard enough and told me " this is the easiest case I’ve seen", that I was the strongest candidate he had seen and my acceptance at Yale was virtually guaranteed. That was rather shocking, and I wasn’t sure he was even talking about the same Yale. He then told me chances are my choices will come down between Yale and Harvard and told me the pros and cons of Yale and told me Yale did not offer him all that much. I’ve seen far more qualified people I’ve known personally get deferred and I know Yale is never a guarantee for anyone. The thing is, the interviewer seemed to break quite a few accepted interview guidelines ( cursing rather often, talking about my chances, telling me other schools may have more to offer me ), and I did not personally feel my interview was spectacular. Should I take his comments optimistically or take them with a grain of salt?