<p>Northstarmom: Not true back at you. You are confusing passion for PC activities and ECs with intellectual “passion” Yuk the mere word makes me cringe. I am sure you value PC activities, but unless there is excellence in academics all the passion for all of the PC activities in the world is meaningless. By the way it’s nice that you conduct Alum interviews, but in that capacity you are there more or less as a cheerleader for the school (and a ready to be tapped source for the school’s fundraising) than, a reliable, valued source of information about the applicant that is relevant, material and probative to admissions.</p>