<p>Any tips please???????????????</p>
<p>Thanks</p>
<p>Don't worry about it. That's honestly the best advice anyone can give you.</p>
<p>It has absolutely no impact on your admissions decision. They are for your benefit only.</p>
<p>ok cool.....yea it was really laid back. It was good though. I think it went well.</p>
<p>I wouldn't go so far as to say the meeting with an alumni has "absolutely no" impact on your admissions decision, since the alumni interviewer does actually file a report with the admissions office that becomes part of your admissions file. In fact, the reason why alumni interviewers have deadlines for submission of meeting reports is exactly because they do indeed become part of a candidate's admissions file. I do know alumni interviewers who have actually received follow-up phone calls from the admissions office over the years based upon their reports. Now, that's not to say that this meeting ranks up there with your LSAT score or your GPA, but to the extent that the alumni interviewer does a good job of adding something important to your file (a recent accomplishment, making something clear that may have been unclear in the applicant's file, emphasizing how excited someone is about Cornell, or noting something extraordinary about that candidate attitude or personality) or sends in a report noting how disinterested a candidate seemed (I doubt that this happens very often), it can make a difference as a tipping factor.</p>
<p>I was never interviewed --- i never had the opportunity for an interview (and I live in the bay area, california!) --- yet im currently a freshmen in the college of engineering. Take that for what it's worth. Interviews aren't really important for Cornell.</p>
<p>At the last info session I went to the cornell rep dude said interviews don't count at all.
Most places on the cornell site say interviews are non-evaluative and are purely to get students excited about the school.</p>
<p>I don't think I really impressed my interviewer with much...really jst talked about movies, current things, and a little info about cornell...and I got in...</p>
<p>I never said that the interview/meeting with a local alum is a very important part of your application. All I am saying is that the report of the alum is read as part of the application file, and I know of circumstances where it has been a tipping factor. You certainly don't need to do an interview to get into Cornell (except in the colleges where an interview is required). You don't even need to impress your alumni interviewer. If you impress your alumni interviewer, though, and that alumni interviewer writes outstanding things about you, and perhaps some unique characteristic of yours, then all the better for you. That is emphasized repeatedly in the training that CAAAN interviewers undergo.</p>