Just how important are the interviews? (from an intl student)

dancepsychlove
Tue, 25 Jan 2011 10:59:04 +0000

Definitely email them to at least show interest.
When I visited Bates, the director of admissions said that they throw away about 1500 unqualified applications right away without reading them. But then there are still a ton of people with great stats, and the way they sort that out is through essays and interviews. What’s really important to them is understanding who and what a Bates student is, and convincing them that you are one. So I think that’s why interviews are so important, because it gives an extra push of interest. As an international student, you obviously have less ability to interview. At least contact them to show them that you want an interview.if you can’t have one, they will recognize that it is out of your control.