<p>Hey all. If possible, I would like to know definitively and specifically what information my alumna interviewer will have about me. I know information of this nature is floating around in various threads, but what I've read is somewhat vague, and I also thought that it would be helpful for other anxious applicants if this discussion could be consolidated in one thread. </p>
<p>Knowing this is obviously not that urgent at all, I only really ask because I want my interview to be a helpful supplement to my application, not a pointless repetition. I do not want to discuss statistics and thoughts that my interviewer will know simply by reading my file for a whole hour. </p>
<p>Thanks to all that respond, and especially to those benevolent alums who tirelessly answer our questions, making our lives as applicants that much easier.</p>
<p>i do appreciate the kind words - but i just answered this question on a similarly worded thread title a few days ago “Does the alumni interviewer have my full application?”. searching would’ve made this thread unnecessary.</p>
<p>your name, school, school you are applying to, major choices, activity interests. that is all. </p>
<p>interviewers will vary in what they care about - some may be curious about your statistics, but frankly that is not our job as interviewers. it is for you to have a conversation about yourself to a stranger, and us as unbiased individuals to report back how you carried yourself in that conversation; how interested we become in your description of your activity.</p>
<p>i do not suggest bringing anything to the interview besides yourself - from my point of view, when a candidate brings a resume, test scores, or anything, it is immediately written up negatively in my reports. it comes across as too eager, and also just shows the student presumes i have more power than i really do. this is a conversation - great students could be horrible at it and that could impact their application, bad students can be great at it and that wont impact the fact they are bad, but marginal students it may be the thing that pulls you in or takes you out of competition.</p>
<p>sorry, i definitely should have searched for that, but thanks a ton anyway for your info and advice. i am excited, as a marginal/relatively weak applicant, for the opportunity to present myself more fully, maybe even more appealing…but i’m also crazy nervous. at this level of anxiety i’m worried that i’ll become either extremely inarticulate or pretentious. hopefully neither, but we’ll see. thanks again!</p>