<p>Or only possible admitted students are seleced?</p>
<p>It is my understanding that they try to set up interviews for all applicants. The availability of an interview will, of course, vary depending on location and concentration of willing alumni.</p>
<p>They try to interview as many people as they can, but as zeinX stated, it really depends on location and availability of the alumni conducting the interviews.</p>
<p>The Alumni Schools Committee attempts to interview every single Princeton applicant worldwide. Some years 100% of applicants to Princeton have received an interview. Last year the percentage may have dropped to 99.8%. The interview is not required.</p>
<p>^ I find that rather hard to believe (it doesn’t seem like you’re being sarcastic).</p>
<p>^What PtonAlumnus stated is close to what my interviewer told me.</p>
<p>I’m sure the figure includes phone interviews for those students in way out of the way places.</p>
<p>Princeton tries its hardest to provide all students with an interview. </p>
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<p>Yep, same here.</p>
<p>Well, maybe my sampling is just unrepresentative of the typical Princeton applicant, but I know quite a few students whom had no chance at getting into Princeton, but applied anyways, and whom would have never considered bothering to do any sort of interview.</p>
<p>Princeton alumni ATTEMPT to interview each student. If a student declines the offer to interview with an alumnus the alumnus reports to admission that the student declined to have an interview and the reason the student provided for declining the interview. </p>
<p>The interview provides the applicant the opportunity to discuss achievements not discussed in their application. An interview is not required for admission.</p>
<p>Right, which is why I find the statement that “Some years 100% of applicants to Princeton have received an interview…” to be highly improbable.</p>
<p>It’s probably 100% of applicants have received an interview if they wanted one. Is it really that hard to make that conclusion?</p>
<p>First to Matt, the OP. You can expect the opportunity to have an interview. I try to contact the applicant during the first two weeks in January and schedule the interview before February. I have been asked to conduct interviews of applicants in late February because they had not been interviewed.</p>
<p>I have interviewed applicants for over ten years; I have never had an applicant decline the opportunity to have an interview. It is my belief that most applicants believe that an interview will help their chances for admission. I have had the opportunity to interview many outstanding applicants. </p>
<p>Every year the chairman of the Alumni Schools Committee in our major metropolitan area reports that 100% of applicants have received an interview. In a email from the university to alumni interviewers this year Princeton reported Among this year’s applicants: more than 9,820 had a cumulative 4.0 grade point average; about 13,650 had a combined score of 2100 or higher on the three sections of the SAT; and they come from 8,393 high schools in 146 countries, including the United States. Alumni volunteers had personal contact with 99.8 percent of applicants. </p>
<p>The universities official press release in 2008 is The number of applicants represents a 12.8 percent increase over the 18,942 candidates who applied for the class of 2011. Among this year’s applicants: more than 7,000 had a cumulative 4.0 grade point average; 11,000 had a combined score of 2100 or higher on the three sections of the SAT; and they came from 7,436 high schools in 137 countries. Alumni volunteers had personal contact with an unprecedented 98.5 percent of applicants, or 21,052 students. </p>
<p>Princeton has alumni clubs from Peking to Paris, from Mumbai to Malaysia. I can not find the source that reported that Princeton alumni interviewed 100% of the applicants that year. So, it is possible I exaggerated by 0.02%. Or it is true and I will find the source later!</p>
<p>Okay, I’m sorry if I came across as nitpicking, as that wasn’t my intention.</p>
<p>In 2009 Dean of Admission Janet Rapelye said that “alumni volunteers had personal contact with every applicant. Describing that as ‘unprecedented in higher education.’ ”</p>