No more interviews

[Anonymous]

I mean this respectfully but grow up. Getting interviewed is a life skill that people need to learn how to navigate. Any interview can be staffed by weirdos or people with an axe to grind, and most of us have been through plenty. The first couple should be scary, but after that, you should be able to have a conversation with someone unknown to you in a respectful way. Kids today have so few basic interpersonal skills that prepare them for life in the working world.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:My kid had like 5 last year. I didn’t realize there would be so many. HPDP (ivies) and Georgetown. One was virtual. He generally enjoyed them.

Did you think the interview mattered for the outcome?

Nope

He was WL at Princeton. In at Georgetown. He said he did well and really enjoyed them.

They interview everyone- except Yale. He didn’t get an interview there and was rejected.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:DC had a horrible Yale interview a few years ago. Asked inappropriate questions. Would have turned my kid off from the school, but kid is a double legacy.

My double legacy had a horrific cross-examination of an interview a few years ago as well. Are you DMV? I wonder if it was the same interviewer. I reported the interviewer after decisions were out. I absolutely believe that at Yale a bad interview will tank your application.

Of course you did. But not a peep had they been admitted, right?

[Anonymous]

DS had a good interview for Harvard and received an invite for Penn. nothing yet for Columbia or Yale.

[Anonymous]

Mine has had several and has another to go. I agree they are good practice but they are also a lot of effort for something that likely has no impact at all on admissions.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:DC had a horrible Yale interview a few years ago. Asked inappropriate questions. Would have turned my kid off from the school, but kid is a double legacy.

My double legacy had a horrific cross-examination of an interview a few years ago as well. Are you DMV? I wonder if it was the same interviewer. I reported the interviewer after decisions were out. I absolutely believe that at Yale a bad interview will tank your application.

I’m an interviewer and absolutely support families reporting interviewers who are inappropriate. The colleges want to know. Asking a few tough (but fair, relevant, and appropriate) questions is fine but being a jerk or excessive about it is not.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:DC had a horrible Yale interview a few years ago. Asked inappropriate questions. Would have turned my kid off from the school, but kid is a double legacy.

My double legacy had a horrific cross-examination of an interview a few years ago as well. Are you DMV? I wonder if it was the same interviewer. I reported the interviewer after decisions were out. I absolutely believe that at Yale a bad interview will tank your application.

Of course you did. But not a peep had they been admitted, right?

Nope - as an involved alum and interviewer myself, I waited until after decisions were out so that it did not look like I was trying to change the outcome in any way. I was going to report them regardless of outcome; I did not want that interviewer to be invited back because they were not a good ambassador for the school.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:DS had a good interview for Harvard and received an invite for Penn. nothing yet for Columbia or Yale.

Columbia is not conducting interviews anymore.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I mean this respectfully but grow up. Getting interviewed is a life skill that people need to learn how to navigate. Any interview can be staffed by weirdos or people with an axe to grind, and most of us have been through plenty. The first couple should be scary, but after that, you should be able to have a conversation with someone unknown to you in a respectful way. Kids today have so few basic interpersonal skills that prepare them for life in the working world.

Interpersonal skills on full display…

[Anonymous]

I think the larger issue is that admission to SCEA schools is, for the most part, a farce: the vast majority of applicants have a 0% chance of admission (by definition, this is not a lottery ticket). Yet these are the schools requiring more, not fewer, essays — and interviews to boot. It is all to give the “appearance” that admission is possible for all qualified applicants, but we know it’s not for 80% or more of them. No matter how well the interview goes, or how good the essays are…

[Anonymous]

My DC had a really inappropriate Ivy interview 2+ years ago. The interviewer asked details about my kid's dating life. My kid was convinced the interviewer was drinking at the time of the call (it was after work and online). It led to a lot of stress about how the interviewer would write up the interview but DC ended up getting in.
I reported the interviewer that May. I have no idea what ended up happening. The university thanked me for my email.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:DS had a good interview for Harvard and received an invite for Penn. nothing yet for Columbia or Yale.

Columbia is not conducting interviews anymore.

Good to know, that’s one less to do! Thanks.