Alumni interviewers should work in tandem with admissions, not side by side without any info at all. The admissions officer swore after the fact that she had no idea that kids who applied RD were invited to an alumni holiday party. In the meantime, those poor RD kids really thought it meant something since only a few attended. Stop leading kids on. In this case, the AO seemed upset and at least told us that she will contact our local alumni association and tell them that invite was inappropriate.