<p>As an example, Harvard Law also does five-minute phone interviews as a “psycho screen” and as a marketing device. I was told by their former director of admissions that roughly 10% of interviewees will do something grossly malsocial, usually within the first thirty seconds – e.g. not pick up the phone (which is fine) only to have the interviewer listen to a voicemail greeting that pretends to be a 1-900 number for adult services (which is not). Or they will answer the phone, while saying “What’s up?” in a manner straight out of a beer commercial. Or be drunk in the middle of the day while talking. That sort of thing.</p>
<p>(Note that HLS interviewees ARE given notice about the hour in which they will be called.)</p>