<p>Just curious...</p>
<p>My interviewer asked me all of my stats, and said the admissions office wants them. Is this true?</p>
<p>The interviewer also said that I was "marked down" as a serious applicant at the start of the interview. Did anyone else hear this?</p>
<p>that’s interesting</p>
<p>my interviewer explicitly stated “I’m going to do all that I can to help you with your application. Unfortunately, this interview doesn’t carry much weight.”</p>
<p>My Harvard interviewer asked for my stats (only one to do so), but said they were strictly for his own curiosity. At any rate, the admissions office has all of your stats anyway so they don’t exactly need to hear them from the interviewer again. Unless they’re trying to check if people are really bad liars or something.</p>
<p>“My interviewer asked me all of my stats, and said the admissions office wants them. Is this true?”</p>
<p>When I was an alum interviewer for Harvard, this was true. I assumed that was because one of the things that the interviewer has to rate students on is something having to do with intelligence/academic potential. </p>
<p>Anyway, why are you thinking that the interviewer might lie to you about something like this?</p>
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can you elaborate on this?</p>
<p>“The interviewer also said that I was “marked down” as a serious applicant at the start of the interview. Did anyone else hear this?”</p>
<p>I have never heard of this.</p>
<p>I can’t really elaborate on it. That’s all he said.</p>
<p>My interviewer said that I have a 1 in 3/4 chance of getting in … :)</p>
<p>My Ds interviewer told her that he was not given all of her application materials and asked for her stat’s. Perhaps he did not really known them or was testing to see if my D new her own scores. The interview lasted approximately 1 hr and 20 minutes. He commented that her strengths in math and science combined with her strong background in the arts made her a strong candidate. I know she was pleased with the interview but I am not sure how much the interview plays in the decision process. I guess she will know by April 1 - (also April Fools day…do you think they realized that when they picked the date?) Good Luck to all.</p>
<p>I don’t understand why all of the schools say April 1st is the decision date when they actually release decisions on the 31st.</p>
<p>don’t take as gospel estmates of chances that alum interviewers offer. Harvard asks them not to do that.</p>
<p>The only people with the knowledge to accurately estimate are admission officers, but they don’t estimate chances.</p>
<p>My Harvard interviewer was disappointed that I didn’t fill out prior interview forms or something apparently. He said it was fine, and he would do it instead, asking me for my SAT score, grades, etc. I have no idea what he’s talking about.</p>
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You did your math incorrectly.</p>
<p>the / means or</p>
<p>My interviewer asked me my test scores and religion…then said that I would get in to 80% of my schools (all selective) but who knows about Harvard</p>
<p>Interesting to read about all these alumni interviewers who handicap your chances. Harvard does ask them not to do so, on the grounds that they, not having access to the applicant’s complete file, have no basis for doing so. Maybe interviewers, being human, sometimes get carried away when they like an applicant, and they want to give the applicant some assurance?</p>
<p>I got the impression that my interviewer was not estimating my chances. He made it sound as if the admissions office had marked me down as a serious applicant.</p>
<p>Inexplicable to me, how he could say that. At the interview stage, applicants’ files have not been evaluated or ranked or “marked” one way or another, and all applicants are equally “serious.”</p>
<p>i wish they meant what they said</p>
<p>my yale interviewer told me i was a serious applicant, but i got deferred. go figure.</p>
<p>I think interviewers should just NOT say anything about whether they think x kid will get in or not. 
I mean at the end of the day, our guess (and that of random strangers on the Internet! teehee) is just as good as theirs…</p>