<p>is princeton’s interview more important than harvard or yale’s interview. i was just wondering.</p>
<p>I don’t understand why any school’s interview would be more important than another’s.
If you’d rather get into one school than another… then maybe it’s more of a big deal for you to make a good impression for that school’s interview.
If you’d like to go to any of the schools that you applied to, then, I’d think they’d all be important.</p>
<p>I haven’t seen any info that says that H or Y puts more weight on the interview. Personally I think that after they look at the transcripts, gpa/rank, standardized test scores, EC’s, essays, GC rec, and teacher recs; it is just silly to put much weight on one short meeting with a volunteer alum. I think the main purpose of the interview for admissions purposes is just to make sure the applicant is not terribly arrogant, completely inarticulate, or has two heads. Seems like that could get that from the GC/teacher recs.</p>
<p>Hmm…I’ve heard H and Y actually do care about interviews. Princeton does it, I think, just to have students talk to a Princeton Alum.</p>
<p>My Princeton interview (as was the case for a few of my friends) was 15 mins long. Their H and Y interviews were 1 to 1.5 hrs each.</p>
<p>The competition at HYP is so tough that it probably matters what color your hair is. At some point, you just have to admit that some luck is involved. Even after they narrow the field down to the super qualified appicants based on academics and EC’s, they still have 4 or 5 times more applicants than they have room for. If they decide to take you based on something small like a 1 hour interview or any of a hundred other possible things, then I just call that basically random chance.</p>
<p>The alumi interviewers are doing this because they called up the college and volunteered to do it. If one guy takes 15 minutes and another guy take 1.5 hours, that is pretty much up to them.</p>
<p>Yale doesn’t care about interviews.</p>
<p>PR says Princeton and Yale “consider” them while Harvard thinks they’re “important”.</p>