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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Pre-pandemic,  I was an alum interviewer for Penn, back when they tried to guarantee an interview for every applicant.  One of my interviewees was a young man who I met at a Starbucks in a neighboring town.  He told me his Dad was tired of him doing nothing with his life, and had forced him to apply to a bunch of Ivy league schools.  He worked part-time at a warehouse distribution center, his primary activity outside of work was playing video games and partying with his friends, and he had graduated from high school two years earlier with a 2.5 GPA and bare minimum state-required classes.  He volunteered all this info, as an interviewer I didn't see grades or any application detail.  He was very nice, but I left the meeting wondering w[b]hy my Alma mater wasted an hour or 2 of my time[/b].  With Yale's name recognition, I am sure they have way more applicants like this than Penn.  Probably very easy to make a first cut.[/quote]

Uh, because Yale runs alumni interviews to get YOU, the alum, involved so you will feel empowered and give more money.  All Ivies do this for this reason.  The interviews mean nothing. Your report back to Yale means nothing (they say it does, but it doesn't).  Everyone knows this.  I did it for Harvard.  It's all about marketing you.[/quote]

The point was that I met a wildly unprepared applicant, who had a 0% chance of getting into the school.  I am sure there are a great many of these applicants that Yale is now dispensing with right away.[/quote]

I would have been annoyed about this as well. [/quote]

Be annoyed with the parents.  I don't know what percentage of applications go into elite colleges that are there because the parents tell the kids to send it in but it has to be a decent percentage.[/quote]

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