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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Yale only interviews if in the running.

If you're in the top 2% (athlete or donor etc) , they don't.

If you're in the bottom 80% (not really a possible admit), they don't.

so it's a good sign[/quote]

This isn’t true. I’m an alumni interviewer for Yale and have interviewed kids with likely letters for sports. It is true that they don’t interview everyone, but I have no reason to think they don’t interview the very excellent students. [/quote]

I find this hard to believe.  I interview for another Ivy and was once assigned a committed athlete.  I thought that was strange, and sure enough I received an email from admissions telling me it was a mistake…but if I wanted to talk to the athlete I could answer their questions but shouldn’t ask the athlete any questions because I could ask something violates NCAA guidelines (which they did not expect me to be familiar).

I reached out and asked if the kid if he wanted to talk…as expected he said no thanks.

I don’t know why there are posters that are hell bent on saying alumni interviews are meaningless…they literally are for some Ivy schools now…but for others like Harvard, Yale and Princeton (at least)…they do mean something on the margins.

I would be shocked to see if any kids are accepted with terrible alumni interview reports…which of course doesn’t change that most with tremendous interview reports are also rejected.[/quote]

I'm not sure what you find hard to believe. Yale is on the record (listen to their admission podcast) saying that they assign interviews to kids who might get in, because they can only interview a certain percentage. I have interviewed 6 kids who got in over my years of interviewing. 1 was an athlete with a likely letter. 1 was among the most connected kids (both politically and to the school specifically) that I have ever encountered personally in my life; he was both a URM and a recruited athlete (who ended up playing 4 years at Yale for a non-niche sport) and was the most impressive kid I have ever interviewed. I am no one. So, in my experience, short of maybe Malia Obama, even connected kids get random interviewers. [/quote]

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