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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][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]

Because the NCAA has strict requirements of what you can and cannot ask D1 committed, recruited athletes.  I am still surprised they would allow just a random alum to interview a recruited athlete vs. alums who literally have been provided some kind of tutorial of how you need to treat a recruited athlete.

While unlikely, you could unknowingly ask questions that violate NCAA D1 policies, and Yale could be subject to some kind of sanctions/penalties from NCAA in the unlikely instance the athlete complains about what you asked to Yale and the NCAA.

I don't really know the ins-and-outs...just remember getting assigned 1 recruited athlete, followed by a lengthy missive from admissions telling me it was a mistake and a litany of NCAA guidelines that ended with...don't interview the kid, just make yourself available to answer questions if the kid wants to talk to you.[/quote]

I've interviewed multiple recruited athletes and have never been given any special handling instructions. Maybe it's different for Ivys without money involved? Maybe the things you can't ask them are the same things you're not allowed to ask any candidates as a recruiter (we get a fairly level training every year or so)? Maybe Ivy interviewers don't count as on behalf of the university under NCAA rules, since we don't work for them and can't offer anything officially? No idea. But I 100% have interviewed recruited athletes and I haven't even been warned ahead of time. One is currently the captain of a Yale team, in fact.[/quote]

If the captain is the same as the uber connected recruited athlete mentioned earlier, then a quick look at the current Yale captains makes it very clear who you're talking about! There is an exceptionally connected kid from DC who is currently the Captain of a non-niche sports team. Glad to hear he was super impressive too! (But, yes, he was obviously always getting into Yale.)[/quote]

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