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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]The parents attacking the interview process should really evaluate if the Ivy League is appropriate for their student. It seems they might be better off at a large state school where their kids won’t repeatedly be subject to peer, professor and club reviews. At my HPY school almost every activity, academic organization or club had a trail or interview by the organizations membership... Mostly “unqualified students” and sometimes faculty.... It’s very difficult to change tradition so be sure that you have your eyes wide open about the environment. As to Mr 3 years it is arrogant and shows a lack of curiosity of learning which is pretty much against the mission. Why not give the spot to someone who wants to absorb as much as possible and create something great. 3 years can go to trade school. [/quote]

Be serious.  For every Brett Kavanaugh conducting an interview there is a young  Christine Blassy Ford being interviewed. The possibilities for a terrible interview mismatch rare not that remote.  The ivy league is not some paragon of i virtue.  It is difficult to change traditions including that crappy traditions.  Get real.[/quote]

Your entitlement is showing. It’s their school and system. My kids had crappy and great interviewers but I never thought entitled to trash the whole system. Wow!  Anyway you are suppose to do it in a public place with people around so that is not really an issue. (Library, Starbucks ... a place a kid would normally go). But really just tell your kid not to apply and you will have protected them from “unqualified” interviewers. At graduation you can laugh at the suckers going Ivy that interviewed. [/quote]

Yeah. Makes total sense. Let’s never question the establishment. That’s led to great things. Thank you Mr. Republican. [/quote]

Oh, there's plenty of questioning the value of interviews on this thread, including from multiple alum interviewers. The simple reality is that how much you want to rail against the system, you aren't going to change it. It is what it is.

The interviews do have value, possibly their greatest value, in helping to filter out the potentially disturbed candidates from your regular students. Beyond that they are largely irrelevant. They probably had greater impact 30 years ago when admissions rates were more like 1/3 to 1/4 of applicants admitted, but in today's world of sub 10% admissions rates, not so much. [/quote]

Really?  My DC, unlike me, went off to college with some self-defense skills and knowing where and when to direct a well placed kick to the you know where.  That is progress.  Sorry boys.  Things do change, allbeit slowly.[/quote]

I'm not sure what you're trying to say. What does having self-defense skills and knowing where to kick have to do with alum interviews? Are you suggesting your daughter would be justified in licking an interviewer she didn't like in the balls in fear that he'd (or she?) would write a bad evaluation?

I imagine most people on here are female, not male but perhaps I'm wrong. But your posts are suggesting you have other issues and are angry about something and it has little to do with alum interviews. [/quote]

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