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[quote=Anonymous]I used to oversee my region’s alumni interviews for my top Ivy school. Alumni interviews are a way to engage ALUMNI, who act as ambassadors and salesmen for the schools but whose views don’t influence admissions; unless your kid bombs (eg ghosts an interview multiple times as I had occasionally happen), I believe they make zero difference. (And a student who does that likely isn’t getting in anyway, as it suggest broader poor habits.) Colleges spend enormous sums creating **extremely sophisticated and nuance** rubrics/scoring for admissions, training readers etc. Why on earth, given this, would they give credence to some rando, basically unvetted alum, often someone who graduated in the Stone Ages and holds antiquated views (still regrets their alma mater’s decision to admit women or blacks) when making a decision?!?!  promise you they don’t. My prediction is these interviews will cease to exist in a few years as the only reason alums volunteered to do them (numbers of alums required are enormous) was in vain hope it’d give their **own kid**a leg up in admissions. (I don’t think was true either.) But with elimination of legacy, it definitely isn’t true. And schools get embarrassed by alumns who insult candidates with their arrogance and retrograde views. I used to feel for kids who’d read into their school asking some kids for interviews and not others when the only reason for this was not enough alums in their area (which also happened in any no-rich area becuz rah-rah Ivy alums from Class of 1975 are often rich). Schools don’t share admission info with the alum volunteers who arrange these interviews becuz—of course they don’t for privacy reasons. So process of assigning is completely random. So any parent out there stressing out your kid about this: Don’t. I mean, sure do the interview as a way of expressing interest in the school. But otherwise: It. Does.Not. Matter. This is solely for interviews conducted by alums. I can’t speak to those conducted by actual admissions officers, which I imagine are more impactful. Fwiw. [/quote]

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