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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Tell me about your experience with the US admissions team. My experience when my DS applied for 9th grade was not good and the person conducted the virtual interview was clearly not interested and not able to establish a rapport. But perhaps that was an exception. [/quote]

We had a weird experience pre-COVID in person.  The interviewer wanted to talk more about themselves or about GDS and didn't seem adept at getting to know our child.  She kept making statements about our DC's interests/priorities that were loaded and based on her own assumptions - they were totally off target for our child and we often needed to steer her in the right direction (In that sense, it was good that it was parent/child combined interview).

It's interviewing 101 to let the candidate make defining statements about themselves and for the interviewer not ask questions that don't lean in one direction vs another.  I know this person is very experienced so this isn't like she had a "new to the job" issue.

DC was accepted, and yet was left off the invitation lists that went to accepted students for specific areas that were fully relevant to our DC.

In the end, DC chose to go elsewhere. It was such an odd experience. Same person is still in that same job. [/quote]

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