Scheduling an Interview?

bonanza
Mon, 13 Dec 2010 10:36:54 +0000

You might want to consider requesting an alumni interview. On campus interviews are with student volunteers, not admissions officers. Alumni interviewers are more mature (or at least older:) ),have often done interviews for years and often are well known to the admissions office, and they usually do far fewer interviews than on-campus student interviewers which means that they probably spend more time filling out the interview evaluation. Certainly, there is no downside to an alumni interview compared to an on-campus one.

Interviews are not required and because not everyone can be accomodated with an interview, they are not a critical piece of the admissions packet. That said, they pretty much can only help. At they very least, asking for an interview demonstrates a certain seriousness of interest.