<p>2010, then I don’t understand why you have to take an alum interview being so close. You can interview after Jan 15 after submitting you application, can’t you? My son’s Exeter interview is after Jan 15.</p>
<p>Rad, we live about 45min from Andover and our town is not on the list, I particularly asked while having the tour, whether we could apply for day, and their answer was NO.</p>
<p>I work with students applying to boarding schools and I’ve never had a student get accepted to a top school with a phone interview. There probably have been some kids accepted this way, but I’ve never seen it. Some of the less selective schools do accept kids from phone interviews on a regular basis.</p>
<p>I think it makes a lot of sense though. For example, I work with a lot of kids from China and Korea, who face an acceptance rate which is much more competitive than for US kids. So if you were an admissions officer and had 150 applicants from China and knew that you had 2 or 3 spaces, wouldn’t you pick from among the families who flew half way around the world in order to see the school they would be calling home? Otherwise, the schools run the risk that the student isn’t serious enough to come, that the parents never really agreed to let him go, etc. It’s just safer to accept kids who visit.</p>
<p>Faymom, When I called Andover they said that day students must interview BEFORE Jan 15th for a March 10th decision. I am aware some schools make you schedule an interview before jan 15th but let you have one after the deadline. This is what I am doing for Middlesex.</p>
<p>2010, I see. Good luck with Middlesex! Middlesex was our first interview. :)</p>
<p>Thanks, and good luck at Exeter. The campus is amazing!</p>
<p>@ newyorker22: If you “work” with those students, I’m guessing you do SSAT prep or are an education consultant… so those families should be pretty well-off, right? I’m an int’l (well, Canada) and I need a lot of FA, and there’s no way my parents are going to let me go on campus… Christ, I never thought that a phone interview would hurt my chances <em>that</em> much… 
Have you worked with international FA students (who took the phone interview) before?</p>
<p>Eeeeeek</p>
<p>fm: i read that list on their site. maybe i was mistaken.</p>
<p>dive alive,</p>
<p>I do work with families applying for financial aid too. THere isn’t much aid for international students, unfortunately. </p>
<p>In many cases, there is a sponsoring organization or charity or possibly even the government in a country that covers part of the international student’s tuition. I haven’t heard of any of those organizations in Canada.</p>
<p>If you are from Canada and you are planning to do a phone interview and not visit the campus, I recommend trying to connect with some coaches or teachers in area of interest in the hopes that they will put in a good word for you. That might help show that you are serious about it. Good luck and let me know if you have any questions I can help you with.</p>
<p>I think at Exeter Canadians are considered the same s US citizens for FA purpose</p>