Rejection and college students

BKSquared
Sun, 18 May 2025 14:25:34 +0000

I have noticed a change within the past 5 years or so for Yale when it began to be selective in choosing interview candidates. When the policy was let’s try to interview as many as possible with the limited number of interviewers, there may have been 1 in 10 of my interviewees who got in. I also interviewed kids that had no real shot. I came to that assessment even though I did not receive grades or test scores because of the lack of depth in their thought process. For the last 3 cycles, 2022, 2 out of 4 got in; 2023 1 out of 4; 2024 1 out of 5 with 1 waitlisted. The total number of admits for my region has been relatively stable over the years, but the number of interviews has been sharply reduced.

Interviews are not part of a prescreen, that was done by a senior AO. If we believe what is in the Yale admissions podcast (why would they lie in such detail), the interviews are adding color to their assessments and whether the app synchs up with how they present themselves live.