<p>Does it mean much if yale emailed me to have an interview or is it just a mailing list?</p>
<p>Did you receive an invitation to go to New Haven? Are you a student with a strong science background?</p>
<p>Otherwise, no one is offered an interview unless he/she has completed an application. Frankly your scenario sounds out of the mainstream</p>
<p>I also received that email. It invites students to New Haven to interview with a senior. I’m not sure who receives that email, it’s possible that it is sent to everyone on their mailing list. I did do the interview and spent the day at Yale attending the information session, tours, and a forum with students. It was a lot of fun! If you have time I would do it. Good luck!</p>
<p>My son received the email as well and we are scheduled to go in October</p>
<p>Does it mean we have a better chance of getting in because personally i do not have the SAT scores to get in nor is there anything unique i did. I dont understand why they want to interview me but i might as well take the oppurtunity. Thats why im not sure if its just a mailing list and they send this to anyone just interested.</p>
<p>Since you’ve not submitted anything, they don’t know your relative chances. I would suspect it may be targeted marketing – towards students that fit certain profiles. But I think you’re aware that no one’s chances can be characterized as “good”.</p>
<p>However, good luck to you.</p>
<p>what mailing list could that possibly be? I’m only a junior in high school, but that experience sounds amazing, and I would love to be offered that oppurtunity next year.</p>
<p>Is there any advantage to interviewing on campus before my son applies SCEA? Or should we wait until he applies and then interview? It would be alot easier to set up an alumni interview near our home than to take a day off school to drive back and forth to New Haven. But if its the best thing to do, then it seems like a small price to pay. :)</p>
<p>On-campus and alumni interviews carry equal weight. Yale knows that most people can’t interview on campus and won’t hold it against them.</p>
<p>I called Yale yesterday. They said that off campus interviews with alums are not guaranteed. They suggested that if we had an on campus interview scheduled and we really wanted the opportunity to interview we should keep it.</p>
<p>twoboys: you’re not going to New Haven solely for the scenario to interview are you? If it’s part of another reason to visit, then go ahead. To travel some distance to Yale for an on-campus interview that 97 out of 100 times won’t mean the slightest in your child’s admission chances – would be unadvisable, in my opinion.</p>
<p>Also, a very large percentage of eventual admits were never interviewed.</p>
<p>There is no difference in the admit rate between interviewed and non-interviewed students. Agree with T26E4 that you shuld not travel to New Haven just to ensure you will be interviewed. Nevertheless, if contacted by the alumni network for interview, I would not turn the opportunity down.</p>
<p>We only live a couple of hours away and I think going back to see the school again will help to either confirm that Yale is his first choice. Or, perhaps, it wont. But wither way, I think that it is a good lesson for these kids to decide to make an effort. My son is very personable and is a great public speaker and loves to talk, so I figure its not going to hurt. But obviously if he didnt have the other “stuff” he needed, I wouldn’t be schlepping up there in the middle of the week :)</p>
<p>Then I think visiting would be a great idea. Make sure he can get a chance to interact w/other students. Have him ask them the things they were considering/thinking about when they were HS seniors. Have him ask them if they’d do anything differently. </p>
<p>Does he know anyone there at this time? Maybe he can schedule an informal overnight to really get a feel of campus. Good luck to you.</p>
<p>T26E4, thank you those are great suggestions. We do not know any current students but I will look into the possibility of having him sit in on a class if possible. I think it might also be good if we could try to eat lunch on campus and see the students in their “natural habitat”</p>
<p>I just started my freshman year, so the feeling of applying to college is still relatively fresh in my mind. PM me if you need someone to show you around campus, I’d love to show you what makes Yale absolutely amazing!</p>