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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I am a Yale interviewer. All interviews in this region have already been assigned, so if your child hasn’t been contacted, the AO doesn’t need more information to make a decision (ie the decision has already been made). That does not mean it’s a no (although statistically most will be no’s). From what we have heard, in many cases it’s that they want to confirm that the candidate that they see on paper actually resembles the actual person. Maybe they think the essay sounded too canned. Maybe a teacher rec didn’t match up. The interviewers do not see anything in the file other than a name and a school, so our impressions are relatively unbiased in terms of presentation. The questions we have to answer boil down to variations of “what does this person seem like?”

I know interviewers who get discouraged when they meet one great kid and they don’t get in because they are looking at that kid in isolation. I felt that way in the beginning, but now that I’ve been doing it for many years and do more and more each year, most of them meet that “great kid” standard but fewer and fewer stand out. Now think of an AO who has that problem x30000 relatively unhooked kids. Under this newer process, I’m actually seeing more kids on my list get in, because I must have confirmed something that the AO was wondering about - yes this kid matches the paper version that they saw.

Tell your kid to hang in there and no matter the outcome, they did nothing wrong. They will be fine wherever they go and where they get in is not who they are.[/quote]

Thank you this was very helpful.[/quote]

Harvard interviewer. This is all absolutely true. It is not easy for kids to stand out, especially in a competitive region like the DMV. But the Admissions Office has a far more comprehensive view of the student than we do. We may or may not confirm what's in the file, which we never see.[/quote]

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