REA/ED Interviews - Have these been scheduled yet?

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DC had a Duke interview last week.

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Anonymous wrote:At this stage, for all those who turned in competitive applications, there is hope. If you got an interview, great: your file is still alive! If you didn't, great: maybe you are a hyper-obvious accept or had a clear file that didn't need any further clarification!

I think you are referencing the Yale interview process for SCEA. They do seem to doing interviews with those for whom they want "additional info." Other schools seem to want to interview all applicants.

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Anonymous wrote:Yes. Yale is still scheduling interviews for EA.

Good to hear. Should students be expecting to hear in the coming week?

It continues to depend on when the Admissions Office sends them out. I just got another applicant added to my list today, so I just sent the email out. So it's not too late, but remind your kids to keep checking their inboxes -- the window to accomplish the interview is still tight. I think that the window for the AO to send them out to an interviewer is tomorrow, so that means it could still take another couple of days, but I've also gotten "red hot can you take one more on pretty please" notes even past the official end date. I'm presuming it means that the kid has made the it past the first pass and is not a hyper-obvious accept/reject.

Interesting that some requests to interviewers go out so late. I wonder if those are cases where the initial interviewer flaked, or where something late in the review process bumped the kid out of the auto-reject pile and into the maybe pile (?). Perhaps both...

They have a crap-ton of files to go through and not that many admissions officers. The only potential correlation that I might see in the order is that the ones that were sent early and due early where those kids who submitted on the early side because those could have been read before the submission deadline and were ready to be sent out. They also have a sense of how many interview slots are available so they may have different criteria in different areas. I wouldn’t read a ton into it.

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Anonymous wrote:Yes. Yale is still scheduling interviews for EA.

Good to hear. Should students be expecting to hear in the coming week?

It continues to depend on when the Admissions Office sends them out. I just got another applicant added to my list today, so I just sent the email out. So it's not too late, but remind your kids to keep checking their inboxes -- the window to accomplish the interview is still tight. I think that the window for the AO to send them out to an interviewer is tomorrow, so that means it could still take another couple of days, but I've also gotten "red hot can you take one more on pretty please" notes even past the official end date. I'm presuming it means that the kid has made the it past the first pass and is not a hyper-obvious accept/reject.

Interesting that some requests to interviewers go out so late. I wonder if those are cases where the initial interviewer flaked, or where something late in the review process bumped the kid out of the auto-reject pile and into the maybe pile (?). Perhaps both...

They have a crap-ton of files to go through and not that many admissions officers. The only potential correlation that I might see in the order is that the ones that were sent early and due early where those kids who submitted on the early side because those could have been read before the submission deadline and were ready to be sent out. They also have a sense of how many interview slots are available so they may have different criteria in different areas. I wouldn’t read a ton into it.

Nerve racking for all those who have been anxiously waiting.

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Anonymous wrote:Yes. Yale is still scheduling interviews for EA.

Good to hear. Should students be expecting to hear in the coming week?

It continues to depend on when the Admissions Office sends them out. I just got another applicant added to my list today, so I just sent the email out. So it's not too late, but remind your kids to keep checking their inboxes -- the window to accomplish the interview is still tight. I think that the window for the AO to send them out to an interviewer is tomorrow, so that means it could still take another couple of days, but I've also gotten "red hot can you take one more on pretty please" notes even past the official end date. I'm presuming it means that the kid has made the it past the first pass and is not a hyper-obvious accept/reject.

Interesting that some requests to interviewers go out so late. I wonder if those are cases where the initial interviewer flaked, or where something late in the review process bumped the kid out of the auto-reject pile and into the maybe pile (?). Perhaps both...

They have a crap-ton of files to go through and not that many admissions officers. The only potential correlation that I might see in the order is that the ones that were sent early and due early where those kids who submitted on the early side because those could have been read before the submission deadline and were ready to be sent out. They also have a sense of how many interview slots are available so they may have different criteria in different areas. I wouldn’t read a ton into it.

That would be consistent with my kid-- submitted at like 11:59 on the due date and just received an interview invitation a couple of days ago!

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Anonymous wrote:Yes. Yale is still scheduling interviews for EA.

Good to hear. Should students be expecting to hear in the coming week?

It continues to depend on when the Admissions Office sends them out. I just got another applicant added to my list today, so I just sent the email out. So it's not too late, but remind your kids to keep checking their inboxes -- the window to accomplish the interview is still tight. I think that the window for the AO to send them out to an interviewer is tomorrow, so that means it could still take another couple of days, but I've also gotten "red hot can you take one more on pretty please" notes even past the official end date. I'm presuming it means that the kid has made the it past the first pass and is not a hyper-obvious accept/reject.

I will add more thing in, that I noticed that since they started this new system, I have had more candidates I interview get in (not all of them, but more than one in the cycle) than I used to. So I think they really are looking for something or to get a human impression of the candidate. It's an audition, so to speak, so have your kid make sure to put their best personality foot forward. So many kids look alike on paper -- I see the alumni complaining about "this kid was so great, and they didn't let them in, they didn't listen to meeeeeeeee", but when you do so many over time, you realize how many qualified, stellar kids are out there and there is a kind of sameness, just at a really high level. I don't envy the final deciders having to make the call.

Still no Yale interview for DC. Assuming the interview window is shut by now. Hoping again hope that this means that DC submitted a very solid file (and hasn't already bene rejected).

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Anonymous wrote:Yes. Yale is still scheduling interviews for EA.

Good to hear. Should students be expecting to hear in the coming week?

It continues to depend on when the Admissions Office sends them out. I just got another applicant added to my list today, so I just sent the email out. So it's not too late, but remind your kids to keep checking their inboxes -- the window to accomplish the interview is still tight. I think that the window for the AO to send them out to an interviewer is tomorrow, so that means it could still take another couple of days, but I've also gotten "red hot can you take one more on pretty please" notes even past the official end date. I'm presuming it means that the kid has made the it past the first pass and is not a hyper-obvious accept/reject.

I will add more thing in, that I noticed that since they started this new system, I have had more candidates I interview get in (not all of them, but more than one in the cycle) than I used to. So I think they really are looking for something or to get a human impression of the candidate. It's an audition, so to speak, so have your kid make sure to put their best personality foot forward. So many kids look alike on paper -- I see the alumni complaining about "this kid was so great, and they didn't let them in, they didn't listen to meeeeeeeee", but when you do so many over time, you realize how many qualified, stellar kids are out there and there is a kind of sameness, just at a really high level. I don't envy the final deciders having to make the call.

Still no Yale interview for DC. Assuming the interview window is shut by now. Hoping again hope that this means that DC submitted a very solid file (and hasn't already bene rejected).

They could be short interviewers in your area. They might have run out of time to get to the file and will defer. Their file may have been obvious. There are so many variables. Just hang in there.

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20.27 PP again: Thanks!

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