<p>So today I had my interview.. and I couldn't help but think that everything that we discussed was on my application. Is that okay? Does that make it a bad interview? Useless?</p>
<p>But... my interviewer did like me a lot. :)</p>
<p>Eryi, you probably just spent time in a useless interview. As do the vast majority of Yale applicants. Unless you're a "1 in 100" amazing type interviewed by a regional bigwig, or an arrogant/antisocial disaster, I can't see things changing your application too much. Which isn't a bad thing. If the interviewer liked you, then you've done all you can do.</p>
<p>Best of luck in late March/early April.</p>
<p>I think the interview definitely matters. People talk a lot about what WONT HURT your application, but what "wont hurt" is meaningless. The interview is a chance to help you out by a small inch or so, just like every other nuance of the application.</p>
<p>My interview was pretty bland as well.</p>
<p>He sort of talked about his own time there and then asked me if I had any questions about Yale (In my head I screamed "OMFG, I'VE BEEN OBSESSING OVER IT FOR 2 YEARS!)....</p>
<p>I asked him about the res. college system, the library (Beinecke), what New Haven was actually was versus what it was supposed to be like.</p>
<p>Meh. There's not much we know about the how the adcoms use information, much less an interviewer (other than them telling us it is the least important part of the application)
Don't worry about it.</p>
<p>I'm not getting an interview by the looks of it, so I hope that they don't make much of a difference. All interviews do is weed the psychos out of the application pool and verify applicants' "identities." In other words, you can get someone to write your essays, but you and you alone have to do the interview. Otherwise, I'm not sure that the interviews are good for much else.</p>
<p>I just had my interview and it was a rehash of many of the stuff on my app too. But I went more in depth about science and really focused the conversation on that just so that my science ECs are more fully developed on a personal level.
She did specifically say that they had already started making decisions and that it depends year to year what they want in a class she even specifically used the celloist example so it seems the stuff on CC is pretty much how the admission office operates. Oh and she said there were 335 applicants from my area. And that if you are admitted then there is a big party and if you decide to attend there is another party.</p>
<p>Wow 335 from your area? What state? </p>
<p>As far as I know I'm one of two applicants from my school. Yale is awesome because it's sort of incognito to the random applications in my area- which all go to Harvard.</p>