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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I did alumnae interviews for Princeton for 10 years. I interviewed some amazing, amazing kids and raved about them but have yet to have any of my interviewees accepted. My sense is that they don't factor into the decisions at all but rather are a way to engage alums.  [/quote]

Same for Harvard (one objectively amazing interviewee waitlisted last year). But alums don’t see the files, and have no idea what the other applicants look like comparatively. DMV rates are especially low due to all the super high stats, talented kids, many with very impressive national/international awards. There usually isn’t much an alumni interview adds that isn’t already evident in the essays and LORs, but it is possible to ask probing questions to get a sense of which aspects are genuine or just box checking. My best interviews are the ones where I learn from the student’s passions and get a sense of real intellectual depth. Now that student might not end up aligning with institutional priorities in a given year, and oversaturated majors are tough to overcome, but I’m happy to do my best to help those students. Some admits who’ve looked at their files once on campus have said there were positive notes about the alumni interview—sometimes even a “let’s wait and see the alumni report.” So the vast majority of time interview reports won’t add anything, but occasionally they do. Of course the question of institutional priorities is by far the most consequential thing.[/quote]

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