<p>How much are interviews weighed? I did amazingly on mine and I just wanted to know if that’d add anything to my application?</p>
<p>Mine said that they didnt matter much; more for us to learnabotu Brown.</p>
<p>I don’t think they would bother thousands of busy alumni if it didn’t matter.</p>
<p>My interviewer said that it didn't matter at all, unless I said "I hate Brown, I never want to go there, it's the worst school on the planet" He said it was more for us to learn about Brown, and it just allows the admissions people another view of who you are. It can't make up for crappy grades or scores.</p>
<p>HAHA...my interviewer told me to my face that she would write me an excellent one and she was impressed with my communication abilities...lol</p>
<p>niicee ... yeah the guy that i was interviewed by was infatuated with me... the guy was practically eating everything up... </p>
<p>just hope that brown takes that into consideration...</p>
<p>hey when are admissions decisions mailed out??</p>
<p>I just want to add this one little thought....
Did you write to your interviewer to thank them for taking the time to meet with you?
All I know is that I interviewed 8 kids in the last 10 days, and only one took the 2 minutes to do this.
Needless to say, they didn't get the most enthusiastic report from me, in the end.
And trust me, none of us are "infatuated" with any of you.</p>
<p>Annelise--That's a very good point you make. Would they write to their interviewer through the college itself? I'd imagine most of the kids wouldn't have a home address for the interviewer.</p>
<p>I asked my interviewer for his contact info at the end and e-mailed him a thank-you right after.. he wasn't hesitant at all to give it to me and told me to get in touch if I had any questions, etc.</p>
<p>I wrote my interviewer a thank you e-mail...since I didn't have her address for a personal note. It's just common courtesy...and really strange that only 1/8 people did so for you, annaliese.</p>
<p>Well, you can see how OLD school I am! I never even thought of e-mail as a way to send a thank you!</p>
<p>most students are contacted via email, and an email thank you is appropriate,if not, by all means send it by whatever means you can think of.</p>
<p>My daughter was contacted by telephone, but I'll ask if she happens to have her interviewer's e-mail. Thanks.</p>
<p>Interviews don't mean jack...JACK!</p>
<p>I did wonderfully in my interview when I applied as a freshman. My interviewer called my mom and said i was truly amazing and could get into any school i wanted, but she hoped i attended brown. I was RE-JECTED. </p>
<p>I'm here now as a transfer. They don't do interviews for transfers.</p>
<p>No, ClaySoul, interviews DO matter.</p>
<p>But having an amazing interview is not a guarantee to being accepted. Neither is being valedictorian or having 2400 SATs. </p>
<p>OTOH, having an alumni write unimpressive or even negative things about you will put up a red flag that the admissions office takes very seriously. It may not be the reason for a rejection, but could be one factor. Just as a truly wonderful writeup could be another point in your favor.</p>
<p>In all my years of interviewing, I have never once gotten a thank-you note. And only twice have students called me to let me know they had been accepted. I don't care as much about the thank-you note, but I would appreciate the phone call from an accepted student.</p>
<p>No, I really don't think they do matter...obviously there's some influence or they wouldn't do them at all, but it's such a small factor it's almost pointless. Nothing even close to being a valedictorian or having 2400</p>
<p>Sly_Vt... I was just wondering how often a typical alumni would write unimpressive or negative things about a candidate?</p>
<p>mikey, that's hard for me to answer, since I don't read every alumni write up. I would imagine it's like a bell curve: most write-ups are positive but not ecstatic, a handful are very negative and a handful are extremely positive. I usually mix positive and negative statements. The worst is when you stare at the computer screen having nothing to write -- the student didn't do or say anything impressive or memorable.</p>