Anonymous wrote:15:02 here. I, too, feel as if my interviews are a waste of time in the all-too-frequent cases in which an applicant is obviously not qualified, judging from the scores, gpa, and extracurriculars. My college's policy is to interview every single applicant, regardless. . . . But then I remind myself that my role is also as a local ambassador for my college, and every applicant should come away with a positive experience and impression of the college even if he or she is rejected.
I interview only MD-school applicants, so I have no idea how the DC-school and VA-school applicants compare.
Anyway, the plethora of unqualified applicants reassures me that, for the qualified appllicant, the odds of admission are not as low as the single-digit percentages that are publishedmake them seem.