<p>DD had an on-campus interview a few weeks ago. The interview was with a current student and DD reports that the interview went very well. Does anyone know if the on-campus interview has any impact on admission? I suspect that it is just an informational interview and that it has no impact.</p>
<p>On-campus and alumni interviews do have an impact on admission, albeit a small one. Because not all applicants can travel to Yale and because the alumni interviewing network (Alumni Schools Committee) can't interview every applicant for a variety of reasons, Yale does not hold not having an interview against you. Most interviews confirm what is already in an applicant's file. However, a very poor interview could raise a red flag and a very strong interview might be the last little nudge an applicant needs for his or her application to make it into the yes pile.</p>
<p>This is my understanding as a long time alumni interviewer.</p>
<p>Thanks for your response AA. DD has not yet applied, although she intends to, and I am now wondering how Yale would track interviews for potential students that have not yet applied? When we were at Yale, I got the impression that at least six potential students were being interviewed in one hour intervals. This leads me to believe that hundreds of potential students are interviewed during the summer before application season. Do you think that they track these interviews? I can certainly understand tracking alumni interviews as these happen after an application has been filed by a potential student.</p>
<p>I don't know exactly how the system works, but they do track on-campus interviews. FYI, in some regions applicants who have had on-campus interviews are put on the bottom of the alumni interviewing list so that as many people as possible have some sort of interview report in their files.</p>