<p>We live in the mid-Atlantic states. My daughter is a good candidate for Brandeis. We visited last spring, and she loved the place–even in a cold, steady rain.</p>
<p>We know Brandeis tracks student interest. If traveling to Boston to interview on campus would show Brandeis more love than having an alumni interview, we’d do it happily. But if an alumni interview really is just as good as an on-campus interview, then we’d be happy to save our money (for tuition, I suppose) and keep our carbon footprint just a little bit smaller.</p>
<p>Can anyone–including, but not limited to, Jeff–offer knowledgeable advice?</p>
<p>Hmm…maybe it’s moot? </p>
<p>According to the Brandeis Admissions web page, there’s no admissions officer assigned to Pennsylvania, Delaware, Maryland, D.C., West Virginia, Virginia or North Carolina!</p>
<p>Sikorsky,</p>
<p>Here at Brandeis, alumni interviews are valued the same as on-campus interviews, so feel free to contain your carbon footprint. If your daughter wants to come visit campus anyway, and chooses to have an interview while she’s here, then that’s great. But, an alumni interview really is valued the same. So many people can’t make it to campus that it’d be unfair to value them differently.</p>
<p>Also, we’ve just been redoing our website. So no need to worry, all the aforementioned states do indeed have admissions officers assigned to them. You can see the assignments on the Brandeis.edu/admissions website under the staff section.</p>
<p>-Jeff</p>
<p>Thanks for both answers, Jeff.</p>
<p>I did figure there had to be an admissions officer assigned to those states. That’s just too many high-school students for any college to write them off completely, you know? Plus, my next-door neighbor’s son is a Brandeis junior, and <em>somebody</em> must have admitted him.</p>