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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I'm a former admissions officer and graduate of a top SLAC, and I have gone through the admissions process with my 3 oldest children.  I'm always a little amused by the posts on this forum from alum interviewers who purport to be so savvy and influential w/re to admissions.  Interviews at virtually all selective colleges and universities --including all Ivy League schools -- are not evaluative, but strictly informational.  Moreover, an alum interviewer will usually do just a handful of interviews in his/her area, so will have seen a very tiny piece of the admissions puzzle.  I would treat their comments with a liberal seasoning of salt.                [/quote]

SLAC?

OK, but I've interviewed as many as a dozen kids for my Ivy some years, between Oct. and Feb., and have yet to see one I advised against taking admitted, including entitled sounding legacy kids who probably looked great on paper.  A decade of experience has taught that what I certainly can't do is get kids in.   I have no idea why many terrific seeming MoCo kids with boatloads of 5s on APs (low-SES minority, top athletes, kids with 2 perfect SAT scores etc.) get rejected.

Strictly informational is what the college brochures say about alum interviews, yet we're asked highly evaluative questions via on-line forms.   I don't see a kid's scores, and we talk mainly about extra-curriculars, which, in my book includes AP tests taken outside a curriculum.   I've seen homeschooled kids take 8 or 9 AP tests and get in.

Little Ivies are Amherst, Williams, Swarthmore, maybe Bowdoin.  East coast liberal arts colleges as tough to get into as Ivies.

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