<p>My interviewer e-mailed me last Friday telling me I would have an interview, to pick a weekend ( last or current) and a venue. I did all this and emailed her Sunday/Monday ( I did not have internet before that).
I never got an e-mail back.</p>
<p>Who knows? Its all based on the attitude of the interviewer. She might be cool with an honest mistake, or she'll be angry that you couldn't even get an e-mail address right... no point stressing about it.</p>
<p>I doubt that you will be looked down on. Like many kids never even get a Yale interview invite because it goes to their spam mail and they automatically delete it. Like I haven't gotten an invite and I'm kinda scared that I deleted it a few weeks ago without knowing.
:X </p>
<p>but yeah, did you explain to her in the email why it took so long? or maybe you can just apologize when you're at the actual interview and be like i'm sorry for the late reply but I clicked reply and i didn't know, etc. etc. </p>
<p>point is as long as you schedule an interview and show up (on time) and everything else, it should be fine!</p>
<p>Gryffon5147: you don't get it. it's not that " i couldn't even get an e-mail address right". it's that she didn't check the inbox of the e-mail address she sent the interview request from.
i then found an alternative email and emailed her again. yes, i could have found this earlier, but i didn't think twice when i pressed "reply".. and i don't think was illogical of me or 'wrong'.</p>
<p>lawlzatyou: thank you for the earnest reply.</p>
<p>IndiaRubber: I highly doubt the interviewer will fault you for this, most interviewers actually like students (really) and they actually enjoy interviewing them (or else they wouldn't be alumni interviewers). I would say don't freak out and try to have the best interview possible!
Good luck :)</p>
<p>Yeah, Gryffon is right though, there's the occasional interviewer who's nasty, but I really doubt a miscommunication about an email address is going to impede your interview in any way.</p>
<p>I must say this thread helped me out- I had to take a test and one of the words was imbroglio- I wouldn't have known what it meant without seeing this thread first.</p>
<p>Interviews are fairly irrelevant in the admissions process. They are in place primarily to keep alumni involved and to provide a miminal screening of candidates. Interviewers are often instructed to check that basic student data makes sense. For example, if someone claims to play the piano, the interviewer might ask the candidate to play a few notes on their baby grand in the living room (I know someone who was admitted to Princeton who was asked to do this during their interview).</p>
<p>jamescchen: do you conduct interviews or have you been interviewed yourself for Yale College? In NO WAY is the interview to "check on data" or other claims of the applicant. Your piano player anecdote confuses rather than informs, I'm afraid.</p>
<p>Fact #1: interviewers know NOTHING about the student other than what he/she tells them at the meeting (Oh, you're into Irish dancing? If I hum a few notes and move aside these chairs at Starbucks, can you do a little jig for me? I'm sure the other patrons won't mind.) </p>
<p>Fact #2: I agree that it serves to keep alumni involved (a fairly large portion of alums do interview for Yale -- last year about 30000 volunteer hours were logged in by ASC members) but our main purpose is to gauge the overall person, not to follow Yale's instruction to check ECs, data points or other claims.</p>
<p>Now I wish I had thought about the possibility of the mail going into the spam folder! mine automatically deletes all "spam." But I really don't think your interviewer will look down on that...its nbd.</p>
<p>I have conducted interviews for Cornell University and my sister has done so for Penn. In each case, we were sent a condensed copy of their applications, without the essays, Thus, we knew their activities, test scores, academic histories and such. I cannot imagine that an interview would be very productive without some background knowledge of the applicant.</p>
<p>I misspoke earlier when I said "checking of basic information" was part of the instructions. It's a guideline that I would follow when interviewing (even today at work I do this). There were no instructions on exactly how the interview was to be conducted, but explicit warnings on what could not be asked during the interview. Otherwise, the interviewer is free to ask whatever questions he or she wanted. </p>
<p>In return, we were asked to submit to admissions a form very similar to a recommendation, but with fewer freeform questions and more quantitative evals (a series of boxes to check with percentages like: "top 5% of all applicants", etc.). For example, "How would you rate the candidate's maturity?" along with a series of boxes.</p>
<p>Neither my sister or I have conducted any interviews in the past 10 years (we now have children), so I'm guessing that the process is more internet-driven than before, but more or less the same. Common sense dictates that the Yale interview process does not differ greatly than say, Columbia's, but I could be mistaken.</p>