Got my call to schedule my interview yesterday 
@MaybeHarvard2022 Why would you get a likely letter?
@harper3125 i dont know. that would be up to admissions to decide
@harper3125 @MaybeHarvard2022 i donât remember anyone mentioning LL last year? You sure this thing exists?
@BrKmNk they do. i know of someone who received one as well as ppl who mentioned receiving one in early March on CC
Positive.
That said, the vast majority of accepted applicants will not receive a likely letter, so your time is better spent doing something other than refreshing your email to see if one arrives. 
Interesting⊠Never caught my eye⊠Thanks for the info @skieurope
If I got deferred from NEU, do you think I could still have a chance at Brown?? 
Absolutely! Because different colleges look for different qualities within their applicants @margaret1515
do you think I should contact the admissions office to ask about the interview? itâs been more than 2 weeks but still nothingâŠ
@ccauth no donât do that.
@MaybeHarvard2022 is an interview compulsory? one of my friends who applied last year say it is.
From Brown:
https://www.brown.edu/admission/undergraduate/apply/first-year-applicants
As @MaybeHarvard2022 says, no, donât contact them. For starters, the admissions office do not coordinate the interviews, so youâd be asking the wrong people.
My D had her alumni interview today. She got an excellent feedback from the interviewer. Will this have any impact at all with the final decision? She is an PLME applicant.
The interview serves for the student to use their voice to indicate whatever they write in their applications are real/legit/same value in a âfriendlyâ environment and how the student actually speaks for himself. Not having an interview might not negatively lower your chances⊠but contrary to popular belief, I think having a really good one does impact your application to a great extent⊠likewise, a really bad one could crack the pillars of your application.
Last year, a friend of mine with 1590 SAT with 3 800 Subjects got rejected without even being waitlisted (he said he got way too nervous in the interview and only talked about success and being the best in the class)
Thank you @BrKmNk
Think of the interview as a blind date ⊠if the candidate cannot engage in a conversation for at least 30 minutes, I guess there wonât be a second date. (rejected) The candidate is supposed to talk about ECs, non-academic stuffs to show soft side of skills. If during conversation arrogance shows through indirectly, no stats would compensate for that. The interviewer needs to write the feedback. If those feedback cannot be obtained from nature conversation, having to be obtained from a question-answer form, the impression might be the candidate is not very helpful. At the minimum, try to be helpful in filling out the feedback form.
I hope you donât get frightened or depressed by knowing the truth about admissions process at âthe fist cutâ thread. I am throwing the information out there so you know admitted or not is not a referendum for your hard works. I do think there has been a paradigm shift at elite colleges. In several information sessions at elite colleges we attended, it was stressed that high test scores and AP courses correlate only to socio-economic condition. So everything is evaluated with a context. In fact, last year Brown admitted 62 percent of incoming class from public schools, a record.
There is nothing one can do about an AO using his gut to decide a candidateâs future. But if you slack off too much now, even if you get in, your admissions offer is subject to final grades. And make sure you donât do anything stupid. Last year Harvard rescinds acceptances for at least ten students for obscene memes (http://www.thecrimson.com/article/2017/6/5/2021-offers-rescinded-memes/). And I personally know one case in that a friendâs daughter was admitted at CMU ED, got changed to waitlisted, and later was rejected at RD because of low grades. Now the person is at a state university (not even honors college) without a scholarship.
Son finally got an interview invite from a Brown alumni and she graduated from his intended major. Does Brown always match up the majors of the interviewer and interviewee? If they do, itâs certainly a nice touch. Son has interviewed with many other schools but has never met an alumni from his intended major, and the conversation tends to go generic.
@bogeyorpar : Probably just a coincidence. In our case, the major does not match. Actually my child has not declare a concentration yet, so it is impossible to know if it matches (unlikely, Câs major probably is Cognitive Neuroscience). But my impression is that interviewer knows intervieweeâs intended concentration. My child always looked up the interviewerâs background (if possible) before going for the interview. Just like a blind date, it is good to know the other partyâs background so the conversation can flow naturally. Best wishes.