My S always brings his resume with him to the interview just in case. Princeton and Yale interviewers asked him to bring but Standford and MIT didn’t. Harvard will be next.
He does memorize his SAT scores break down, maybe because he took once.
My advise is be honest!
I am genuinely surprised and baffled to learn this. Harvard (like pretty much every other school in the world) won’t accept self-reported SAT scores. So any score reported to Harvard by an interviewer is meaningless. The Admissions Office has the official score report and the official transcript. I thought the point of the interview was for the Admissions Office to maybe learn some things that don’t come through in the application, not to garner non-verified versions of officially confirmed, quantifiable documents it already has.
^ exactly — so why should an interviewer be clouded by this injection of bias? You can’t tell me if there were two exactly similar interviews but one started by saying she got a 2400 and the other said she got 2050 SAT – that the write up would be exactly the same.
Why doesn’t Harvard tell its interviewers to stop this practice?
Many Harvard alumni clubs ask for a “Pre-Interview Form” (my local alumni club asked for one, and there are plenty of pages on CC that refer to this form). The form had a section that asked for my SAT scores and GPA.
That’s interesting that folks don’t provide a quick little resume anymore. Both my sons presented all their interviewers with a one-page thumbnail with GPA, test scores, and a few academic highlights. However, none of their Ivy or MIT interviewers even glanced at it before or during the interview. With the exception of one Ivy with my older son, all their interviews were good experiences.
@T26E4, I completely agree. I had mine today, and it really felt like we were rehashing my common app.
My interviewer asked me to bring a copy of my grades and test scores.