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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][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].

Yale interviewer here. [b]Please stop trying to overthink this and look for hidden meaning in the tea leaves. [/b]Yale wants to offer anyone an opportunity, alumni are cheap labor, and even being a C student is not an immediate disqualification. (You never know what someone is doing with the rest of their time)  I don't even get the application - one of my functions is to see what the candidate is like as a person without the baggage of a transcript. [/quote]Not the PP but I don't think it's [b]unnecessary[/b] to be insulting.  I think the questions are legitimate and I, also, wondered about this.

Interestingly, the majority of the posters on the college forum and independent schools would disagree with you about the 'C' student.  A young person was vilified and discouraged from applying to Ivy schools for having a B in English and History.[/quote]'necessary'[/quote]

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