<p>I mean, the schools which require this as Adm criteria, how do int students
attend? Or is it normally waived for them?</p>
<p>Alumni will often interview applicants. Schools will often arrange the meeting.</p>
<p>I didn't have a single interview during my application process. But some schools offered me alumni interviews in my country (unfortunately, they would have been either at the other end of the country or in really remote areas that are not accessible by public transportation).</p>
<p>Colleges may also offer you a telephone interview if there is no interviewer within a reasonable distance from your home.</p>
<p>Goodness.. Int by telephone. Isn't that much harder to create an impression than face to face?</p>
<p>Well, interviews are in most cases not meant to 'create an impression' but to create a bond between you and the college and to answer your questions.
My college has a public pin board with articles regarding college admission, and one of them is about the declining importance of admission interviews; that rarely an interview makes or breaks an application.</p>
<p>But you are right, I would not want to have a phone interview, especially since I am a nonnative speaker.</p>
<p>So am I. I am Asian</p>
<p>I had my Yale alumni interview today and I'm in Singapore.</p>
<p>boeing767: How was it?</p>
<p>I had two interviews in Peru and one by phone (it was horrible!!)</p>