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[quote=Anonymous]Unless Harvard is vastly different than my Ivy alma mater (though according to DCUM, a "lesser" Ivy), a.) you are not an admissions employee and b.) alumni interviews count for very little unless you have 2 equally qualified students to choose from and need a tie breaker - one's alumni write up says the student was hard to engage in coversation, gave one word answers, etc. and the other write up says the student spoke intelligently about a range of subjects, looked the adult in the eye and kept the conversation going. The latter gets in.

Having been an alumni interviewer for over a decade, I have always understood this and use the interview to get a sense of the student as an actual person off the paper they have submitted to admissions and to give the student a chance to ask about the college, even down to simple things, like "Are the winters really that bad?" I always hope that if the student is in a tiebreaker situation that whatever I have written up will be useful to the admissions officer looking at the package. Also, we are specifically instructed not to ask the student their GPA or SAT scores and I certainly would never request that an applicant provide me with a resume or the essay they wrote for admissions. Instead I ask them about the last book they read for fun and what they spend their free non-resume building time doing.[/quote]

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