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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Be careful, OP.  There are Ivy grads on here who do the alumni interviews to feed their egos and keep living their glory days who will insist that their interviews "count" when the rest of us know that they're just being indulged and they don't.[/quote]

I'm of the losers you're talking about and the admissions office showed us data that getting the highest interview score correlates with higher percentage of admission. I admit that's not necessarily causation, but when all of these kids are so impressive, there are cases when the balance can be tipped.

I do not care about this. What I enjoy most post-Covid is just getting to know these kids and telling them that they will do great things because that's who they are, not because the school might be lucky enough to choose them or not.

Having said that, it almost never moves the needle. OP, try your best, take it seriously, look for good advice online. 
It has more potential to hurt you. Adcomms can justify a Denial from a negative comment in an interview.[/quote]

Do you have examples of what applicants did during the interview that made you write negative comments?  Thanks.[/quote]

I think generally they really want kids who are motivated, curious, well spoken, make impact, etc etc

Sometimes you get kids where it's just like you are absolutely pulling teeth. I try my best to write good reviews whenever I can, and understand where they are coming from. But, for example, if they bring up the "activity that was most important to them" or their "favorite class in high school" and I asked some follow up questions, and they really have nothing to say beyond a vague sentence or two, that's not good. I probably wouldn't write anything very negative, but it won't be glowing / highlighting that this kid really has the attributes they're looking for.[/quote]

I interview for Yale, and it’s this. After Yale flipped the interviewing paradigm a few years back (no longer trying to interview everyone) they also changed the reporting sheet and ask more guided questions of the interviewer. I rarely write anything negative but I may point out that it was very hard to get any kind of substantive non-generic conversation going. Some of the interviews epitomize “damning with faint praise”. Also, I see a lot of people who do only a few interviews get fed up and stop interviewing “because these two really great kids I interviewed didn’t get in”, but when you do a lot over time you realize that most of them in isolation are generally qualified and impressive and now you’re seeing the admissions office’s dilemma of how to winnow down the list. My advice to anyone who wants to know how to approach it is “be able to converse easily with someone not your own age, be interesting, and interested in things”. [/quote]

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