<p>I have a question pertaining to alumni interviewers: are alumni interviewers people who got their BA/BS at Tufts? Or can alumni interviewers have attended, and obtained a degree from, some sort of grad school at Tufts (TUSM, TUSDM, Fletcher, Sackler, GSAS or Tufts Veterinary), even if they went elsewhere for undergrad?</p>
<p>I would think that the alumni interviewers who are grads of the undergrad ( Medford campus) would have a better sense of the school than those who graduated the professional schools and were in downtown Boston. The graduate programs are very different and in my four years at TUSDM, I don’t think I set foot on the Medford campus more than 5 times…</p>
<p>I know Tufts is a multiple-campus school but there might be areas where the only Tufts alum available graduated from TUSM, TUSDM, Tufts Veterinary, Fletcher, Sackler or GSAS…</p>
<p>I believe the program is open to any interested alum. The more people who volunteer, the more students can get interviews. 18,420 applicants this year!
They have training materials for interviewers and they are invited to campus to meet and hear from the admissions department about the process. Campus tours are offered too so they know about any new and cool developments.
Interviewers are not expected to know everything about the school, if you can’t answer a question you offer to help *get *the answer for the student. It is pretty rare to get a question you don’t know the answer to. Most students ask pretty generic questions.</p>
<p>I don’t know what the official policy is but I don’t think it would make as much sense to ask non-undergraduate alumni of Tufts to give interviews. A large part of the interview is to convey your own experiences at Tufts and answer whatever questions the student might have about undergraduate life.
I know I certainly wouldn’t feel qualified to do that for students applying to Stanford (where I’m at grad school) and I live on campus here.</p>
<p>That said, you’d still get a feel for some aspects of the school (much more so for the GSAS, Graduate Engineering, or Fletcher than for Sackler/Medical/Dental/Cummings) and having someone give an interview is better than no one.</p>
<p>Maybe there are schools that will never ask non-undergraduate alumni to do interviews in a given area unless the only alums in that area are non-undergraduate alumni…</p>
<p>When I lived in a very rural area, I was sometimes assigned to interview students who lived an hour or two away. (My longest drive for an interview was about five or six hours round trip; it was during a winter storm.) Tufts may just make a larger region, and assign UG alums to interview within that region, rather than assigning graduate alums. But the admissions staff would know more about this.</p>
<p>I believe that if a Tufts grad school alum (e.g., med school) is interested in being a TAAP interviewer for undergrad applicants, s/he is welcomed by the Admissions Office.</p>
<p>Once, it was any Tufts graduate. But those days are long past, and as it stands now only UG alums are invited to be interviewers.</p>