<p>If a college contacted you for an alumni interview, do you absolutely have to? Does it become part of your admissions criteria?</p>
<p>You normally don’t have to, but it helps. My alumni interviewer at Tufts said that the interview is basically to ensure that you’re not some creepy psychopathic killer, word for word.</p>
<p>You should go. It’s a negative if you do not accept the interview. If you do not go, it shows you are not interested. But if you do go, unless you were absolutely horrible it wouldn’t hurt you, except at a handful of schools.</p>
<p>Yeah, i’m doing it. I’m excited!!</p>
<p>well it depends where you live. If you live in a rural place and have to travel, im sure they would not hold it against you.</p>
<p>Do you know which schools(Ivy League or top schools) absolutely require you to have an interview??</p>
<p>I am an interviewer for an Ivy league school. As a group of alumni, we try to interview as many students as we can with the limited time we have. When a student does not respond to my request for an interview, often after several attempts at contact, I do indeed inform the admission committee that the students did not respond to the interview request. In a competitive environment, I would imagine that is a negative point in the student’s application</p>