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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Harvard interviews everyone. It isn't meaningless. Harvard asks everyone to write an essay too, but that isn't meaningless. However, the interview rarely makes or breaks an applicant, because in 90+% of cases, the interview just confirms what the rest of the application says. Every admissions officer has some stories about cases in which the interview made a difference, mostly in finding kids who can't handle college life due to some issue that doesn't show up in the school's glowing report.

Part of the reason for interviewing everyone is PR, to make sure that people have a positive impression of Harvard. Also, logistically, interviews take place before the admissions office has made its first cut. With the volume they get, there's almost no other way to do it.
[/quote]You make sense but I would assume there must be some cursory look over the applicatiion.  Why schedule an interview with a C- student just because they subitted an application for the heck of it?[/quote]

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