<p>email...that's a new one!</p>
<p>improvisator's comment worries me AGAIN </p>
<p>SBmom, what is the usual procedures for an alumn when he/she encounters a situation like mine? He told me he would call Brown, but what else I don't know.</p>
<p>Try not to worry!!</p>
<p>The interview is done to answer an applicant's questions and humanize the process. That is why 'in person' is preferred over phone or email-- more human. Seriously, the interview has no real weight in the admission decision. </p>
<p>About the only weight it could have would be if the "picture" of you in your interview was radically different than the "picture" of you in your teacher recs, essays, etc. Then it might prompt a closer look at your application. This could swing either way; for example, a kid who was inarticulate and dull in person but who had an eloquent, sparkling essay-- is the essay really his work? Or a kid who really blew the interviewer away, with only so-so GC or teacher recs-- is that because the high school staff is inexperienced w/ elite admissions?</p>
<p>99% of the time the interview is right in line with every other part of the application.</p>
<p>I am sure your alum called Brown if he said he would. We really try to be the applicants' advocates in this process. I still remember some of my scary interviews from 25 years ago-- and my D just went through this process in '05. In general, interviewers have nothing but empathy for you guys. </p>
<p>Do not worry! Please! :)</p>
<p>Thanks for calming my paranoid mind down again SBmom :)
Just out of curiosity, what graduation class are you from? (Please don't feel you have to reply to this if you don't want to reveal your age :) --
"I knew I was old!"</p>
<p>I graduated in the early '80s</p>