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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][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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Bitter much?  [/quote]

Not at all. My colleagues and I found you all amusing and tragic. You read what I wrote and you saw "bitterness"?

Thanks for illustrating my point for me. [/quote]

DP.

Anyone who says he worked [b]at a school he won't name in Cambridge, MA [/b]strikes me as a self centered, self-important jerk desperately clinging to an association with Harvard from days long ago.

As you may be aware, all the Ivy League schools have different practices in this area and for we know you worked at Harvard a long time ago as a secretary or something and were fired.  You do certainly sound like a pompous know-it-all.

For example, here is what Yale says about alumni interviews:  "An interview is not a required part of the application process. Because of limited interviewing capacity, the Office of Undergraduate Admissions prioritizes interviews for students for whom the Admissions Committee needs more information. Students who do not receive an interview invitation will not be disadvantaged, but applicants are encouraged to connect with a Yale alumni interviewer or student interviewer if invited."  You know for a fact that Yale is lying?

By the way, you might want to review the NDA you signed with Harvard before posting here again.  You should be pretty easy to identify.[/quote]

This was clearly a joke about how Harvard grads won't say they went to Harvard but instead say "Cambridge". You've unknowingly indicted the very people you sought to defend. And I am here for it and your public embarrassment.
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