<p>How bad would an interview have to be for Columbia to reconsider a candidate who received a likely letter? I received one back in January and had my interview almost immediately following. I've tried, during the past month, to push worries out of my mind, but still feel that my interview was rather stale. </p>
<p>My interviewer asked me questions like: how's your high school; what inspires you; where do you see yourself in the future; what has been some challenges in your life? My previous interviews had never been in such a formal Q&A style, so I was completely unprepared. My answers were incomplete, ambiguous, and there was little connection or flow between my interviewer and me. Furthermore, I didn't mention a lot of my extracurricular activitiesthough I did talk extensively about some of my primary, albeit trivial, passions.</p>
<p>Bottom line: How bad would a post-likely letter interview have to be to merit reconsideration of an applicant? </p>
<p>are you an athlete? cuz then i wouldnt worry too much about your interview. and if you arent, then realize that most colleges (including columbia) use the interview to validate the application. so if your application was that good that it got a likely, then a mediocre interview is nothing to fret over!</p>
<p>so long as your interview didn’t say you hated columbia, or perhaps made it seem as if you were a criminal or had some serious flaw, the interview wont change your status considerably (obviously if you received a likely letter they determined that with even if you were to have a bad interview, they had enough information to conclude you were worthy of admission).</p>
<p>If there weren’t any serious flaws, then I doubt that your interview would hurt you had it come before the likely letter; at this point it shouldn’t matter at all.</p>
<p>You have absolutely nothing to worry about since the interviews are more for informational purposes to benefit the applicant. Since many applicants don’t get interviews given the sheer number, Columbia wouldn’t want to have those people at a disadvantage. In other words, don’t worry about it because it will not affect your chances of gaining admission.</p>