<p>Post 18 directed to MediocrePerson..</p>
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i take that kind of personally. do you mind taking that back please?
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<p>No, I not only stand by what I said, but having read several more of your posts just now, I'm even more confident in my opinion that you're a terrible poster. And no that's not an "ad hominem attack" -- it's a comment on your abhorrent inclination to wholly mislead applicants on this board.</p>
<p>Simply put, pray tell us -- WITH SPECIFICITY -- EACH BASIS that you have for your understanding/belief that "if you don't get interviewed, you're probably already accepted."</p>
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I'm right. Don't listen to this guy; he doesn't want you to get in.
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this is what you said, immediately before complaining that other people are going after you ad-hominem. Just sayin'.</p>
<p>Furthermore, you are flat-out wrong with your claims in post #7. C02 and I are both Alumni Representative Committee members who conduct interviews on behalf of the university. Based on the stats I recall from last year's interviewing, about 54% of applicants got an interview. Think about that - about half. So the 46% of applicants who did not get an interview - are they golden sure-thing admits? Obviously not. And the 54%, are they all rejected? Well, I interviewed 8 people last winter, and 1 was admitted (and not the one I loved the most, who is now at Middlebury). You will note how little weight the process appears to have, except that the % admitted appears to reflect that interviewees are a random sampling of the applicant pool.</p>
<p>And the distribution is primarily based on where they have interviewers available rather than the applicants themselves. The ARC does not have an unlimited supply of alums in every nook and cranny of the globe. There is a certain amount of randomness to whether there is enough coverage in an area - toronto may have 80% of its applicants interviewed, while texas gets shortchanged. It changes every year. But the limiting factor is the interviewers, so it's silly to interpret "getting an interview" as a key indicator of what Admissions thinks of your application.</p>
<p>Please stop trying to spread information that you don't know anything about, and contradicting people who actually do know what they're talking about. It's annoying and a bad attitude to have.</p>
<p>Agree 110% percent with C'02 and Denzera. As another member of the Alumni Representative Committee who particpates in student interviews, Mediocreperson is just plain wrong. Denzera's statement above is an excellent summary of how the process works.</p>
<p>let's let the voters voice their opinions.</p>