<p>Bingle,</p>
<p>Thanks for the reply and the information. </p>
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<p>Well, Carleton also says on their web site that:</p>
<p>“interviews are informational, not evaluative.” Clearly rating students on an average, good or superb basis is evaluative. The point is not to suggest that the good people of Carleton Admissions are involved in things they don’t mean, it’s merely to suggest that a bit of editing might be in order. </p>
<p>Certainly ALL schools and students should be interested in fit, so the ‘level of interest’ prompt is not about fit. Fit requires two parties/entities, interest only one. </p>
<p>Also, I notice that other schools (such as Amherst and Williams) also checked that they do not consider “level of interest.” Swarthmore does consider it. My guess is that there isn’t a single thing that Swarthmore Admissions is doing around “interest” in comparison to the other schools other than slicing through the nonsense.</p>
<p>After all, if some college president were asked the question: are you interested in college applicants that are greatly interested in your college, what is he going to say? No?</p>