My theory on interviews

Burb_Parent
Mon, 29 Sep 2008 07:06:37 +0000

During the parent’s interview, we were told “Your son did very well” or some variation of it at every interview. You cannot read anything into it. Some interviewers will go so far as to cite certain qualities and state, “That’s just what we are looking for.” You cannot read too much into that either.

Decades ago, I’m told by veterans that sometimes an interviewer would tell prospective parents that they were looking at the wrong kind of school. Now that everything is so numbers driven, they want applicants, suitable or not, to drive up the numbers. Someone said on another thread that they just want the application fee. Fees are not the numbers I’m referring to. I think the fee does not even come close to covering Admission expenses. They want to increase the number of applications.