<p>Apparently schools that are covered by Yale ASC get interviews. I live in a smallish city in Northeastern Texas, and the closest ASC is in Dallas, about 3 hours away. Will they send an alumni up here to interview me or will they just not offer me one?</p>
<p>I'm kind of nervous about the interview and I kinda want to know now whether or not I'll have to do it.</p>
<p>Yale interviews everyone it can. In some places, it doesn’t have enough alumni volunteers to interview all the applicants. (By the way, the word alumni is plural. No Yale Club would send “an alumni” anywhere; they’d send an alumnus or an alumna.)</p>
<p>If Yale works the way my alma mater works–I used to interview for a different Ivy–the nearest Yale Club’s school committee will assign you to a volunteer if one is available. That person will contact you, and you’ll try to work out arrangements for an interview. If it’s a great distance, you might have to travel, or you might meet in the middle, or you might interview by phone or Skype. But Yale won’t just “send someone” to you, because the people who interview are volunteers, and neither Yale nor the nearby Yale club would presume to send an alum on a 6-hour round trip at his or her own expense.</p>
<p>FWIW, when I applied to college a generation ago, I had a Yale interview. I didn’t get in. I was never contacted for an interview at the college I eventually attended. Most of the time, alumni interviews matter very little.</p>
<p>Sikorsky is spot on. Even within a large metropolitan area, there may be several ASC territories with differing abilities to interview all applicants. Neighboring territories could range from a 50% to a 100% interview rate in that areas that are popular for alumni to live have a much greater pool of interviewers. Unless the director has an interviewer that frequently travels up your way that can be assigned, expect that you will need to do the traveling if offerred an interview appointment. The best way to improve your chances of getting an interview is to apply earlier than the deadline (early October for SCEA or November/early December for RD). The applicants are typically assigned in waves as they are received and at the deadlines we may just run out of interviewing capacity.</p>
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<p>I got over 4000 posts. It was bound to happen some time!</p>
<p>Can I just say something that make you guys feel better? Interviews mean absolutely NOTHING to adcoms in about 95% of all applicants. Ivy Leagues and Stanford are actually losing interviewers because interviewers are tired of writing lengthy and amazing recommendations only to go 8 years without getting one student admitted. My interviewer had interviewed well over 100 applicants and I was the first one he ever had admitted. Another Yalie i’m friends with got to his interview and the interviewer LITERALLY said “this interview means nothing, so what do you want to know about Yale?”. Trust me, interviews are not to strengthen your application…they’re just to prove you’re not extremely socially awkward or too strange or incompetent in real life. Very few applicants actually get admitted based on interviews. And if you dont get an interview, Yale(or any other Ivy) won’t count it against you at all. They understand that not everyone can be interviewed, and they also know (like I just said) the interviews dont mean much at all. Good luck.
-Luke
Yale student</p>
<p>Interviews at Ivies and other schools really have no bearing in the process. Schools like Yale make it very clear that not being able to interview because of lack of available alums has no effect on your chances if admissions. Now some LACs may put more emphasis on the interview, but it really depends on the school.</p>
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<p>This is pretty much why they lost me. </p>
<p>Interviewing applicants actually made me like my alma mater less. I saw all kind of smart, motivated, ambitious and well-meaning teenagers going through all kinds of contortions so they appear to be who they thought the College wanted them to be, and they still weren’t getting in. I came, reluctantly, to the conclusion that by being so insanely choosy, my alma mater was kind of wrecking these young people’s lives, and they weren’t getting anything but stress out of the deal.</p>
<p>I actually discouraged my own kids from applying to my college or its peers.</p>