Dartmouth interviews are both, actually. Alumni Interview | Dartmouth Admissions
I do agree you need to worry if you don’t have one…there really just are not enoguh interviewers so that is on school, not kid.
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My understanding is that they are not prioritized at Dartmouth at all. It is all volunteer run - big list of applicants goes to regional “captain” type person who assigns them to volunteers in their region…
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S24 had his last week via zoom. Said it went fine. I wouldn’t read anything into not getting one as it is all based on interviewer availability and they can’t meet the demand. We are located in MA and there are a lot of alumni in New England so I’m going to guess that there is more of a chance to get an interview here. My son’s interviewer cancelled several times before they actually connected (seems like a very busy guy) so that plays into it as well.
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Thanks so much, exactly what I was trying to glean. I know this process is dynamic and always evolving. Thanks for responding.
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I agree. Thanks for clarifying. What I meant to say was that if one doesn’t get an interview it doesn’t hurt your chances. Candidates do get admitted without an interview. I know of one case for sure.
Totally! and each school is different, and can definitely change year to year!
I barely trust info from early cycle haha!
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My son had an interview about 2 weeks ago. He said it went very well. The interviewer is a professor from a university nearby, and I feel she made my son want to go to Dartmouth a lot. He wasn’t too enthusiastic before the interview, now he seems really want to go.
Early is the new Regular. Considering the deluge, schools should rename all Early Rounds as Regular and all regular rounds as delayed. While they’re at it, it doesn’t hurt to start a junior year application round.
Regular application, did not receive interview invitation till today (Feb. 9). Yesterday got a Dartmouth email to school counselor (cc to applicant) to submit mid year report. Anyone got the same email?
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Got an email interview invite from an alumni in my city
That’s good info, which means Dartmouth does need/read mid year report. My son didn’t receive any request, but for some reason his school counselor uploaded mid year report to Common App on 1/31, then most of the school he applied downloaded the report, including Dartmouth. Now it shows in the portal.
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My son was accepted ED and was also asked for mid-semester grades in December. I think it’s pretty routine and wouldn’t read too much into it.
What I’m convinced is a positive signal is if you applied for financial aid and your child gets an email from the financial aid office asking for info. The financial aid office doesn’t have resources to be crunching the numbers for every applicant on the off-chance they get in.
Good luck!
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Thank you so much. Good luck!
Thank you so much. Congratulation!
If you don’t have an interview, there is no way to tell whether you have made the 1st cut, due to possible unavailability of alumni interviewer.
However, if you had an interview, you can safely assume that you must have made the 1st cut.
Is the logic correct here?
FWIW my kids HS sends mid-year reports to all schools you applied to, by default.
Unless something changed very, very recently (which is possible), interviews were offered to all applicants on a space available basis. As already mentioned interviewers are volunteers (as are those who assign individual candidates to interviewees). There aren’t always enough… Volunteers can not see scores/grades, etc… I don’t think getting an interview (or not) means anything.
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You are probably right. Wondering how many interviews they conduct each year. 28841 applicants for the class of 2027, which needs a lot of alumni. If they can’t cover at least a half of the applicants, it’d better for the University to prioritize, otherwise it defeats the purpose of the interview.
no clue how many are completed.
If they were to triage it would take a lot of extra AO time, all at once and they just can’t do that/don’t want to use AO time that way…
I know someone that does interviews. They are assigned kids to interview w/i a week or so of the application due date to allow them time to read their own email, contact applicant, schedule interview, hold interview, write up report. Also reports are due in Feb so AOs have time to read them!
You should remember the interview serves 2 purposes - that are very well equal in their mind. 1) an additional piece of the application they occassionally need 2) to keep alumni happy and feeling involved
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