<p>^ I wasn’t aware that the alumni interview counted for anything at all. </p>
<p>The admissions office explicitly states that not doing an interview (for whatever reason, many times not being offered one) cannot hurt you. If that’s the case, and what you said above is also true, then there must be some formula to disregard the alumni interview score in case the applicant didn’t have one so that it makes no impact on final outcome. In that case, it would actually be advantageous to not do an interview because not doing one will never hurt you but doing one badly can hurt your application.</p>
<p>That would not be very logical.</p>