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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Note to all the I'm an "Ivy interviewer" folks. I worked for 15+ years in undergraduate admissions at an Ivy league school (I won't name it but I can tell you it is in Cambridge, MA). I really wish you people could hear how we talked about you. Long ago (until maybe the early 90s I'm told) the alumni/a interview was a meaningful part of the admissions assessment. That hasn't been true for decades. Now it is an exercise perpetuated by inertia and our alumni office's desire to continue to keep a bunch of self important jerks engaged with their school. If you aren't a member of one the boards and/or a 7 figure donor the school doesn't give a damn what you say. It never fails that the interviewers who are least important always think they are the most essential voices in admissions. You work in some government office next to people with degrees from UMD or UMass and you think the fact that you majored in English Lit in 2004 from "an Ivy" means a thing? You go through life thinking you are special. Trust me, the admissions officers see you as self centered, self-important jerks desperately clinging to degrees from days long ago.

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