<p>I think it’s more like a way to promote Brown to the prospective students instead of evaluating the candidates, because the only thing the interviewer asked me was the ‘why Brown’ question, and the rest of the one-hour phone interview was my asking him questions about Brown and his experience there–like a real conversation–with some awkward pauses (he told me I wasn’t obliged to ask him questions but he’s really nice so I wanted talk more about Brown to him but I only had few questions prepared so I sometimes thinking about the questions I wanted to ask :P). I don’t know if it’s bad or not kind of drifting away from talking about ‘why I’m perfect for Brown’, but one of the Brown interviewers on CC has stated interviews carry little to no weight for the admission, so don’t worry too much.</p>