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While students do change a lot between freshman and junior year, it can be very helpful for parents who aren't as conversant with the present day college application process to start well before spring break of junior year.  If you want to be able to guide your child (and I'm not talking about making the decision or even driving the decision but providing helpful input) there's really a lot to know these days.  Also, in our experience many of the LAC's [b][u]strongly urge[/u][/b] interviews including Bates, Colby, Wellesley, Smith, Connecticut College, Holy Cross, Hamilton, Wesleyan, Hobart and William Smith.  Other schools suggest them but do not strongly urge them, for example, Trinity, Franklin and Marshall, Gettysburg. Our private school college counselor made the statement during a parent meeting that most colleges don't conduct interviews and it left us scrambling to schedule them when we discovered that the schools my child was interested in did, indeed, urge them.[/quote]

We also found that interviews were strongly encouraged at all but one of the schools my DC applied to.  Hobart actually had an admissions rep locally so that one was easier (had already visited the campus).  I think Wake Forest may have actually required interviews but they did offer them via Skype.[/quote]

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