<p>Anyone else get the call/email for a CALS interview? I got a call tonight</p>
<p>No I haven't yet!
I got a call asking if I had any questions, but not about an interview.</p>
<p>chandler, that's what the OP meant. It's not really an interview, it's just an informational session to ask questions.</p>
<p>Oh ok yeah, I got that call a couple weeks ago.
But aren't I supposed to get a call/email about scheduling a CAAAN interview?</p>
<p>^^^Only if there is a CAAAN rep in your area who is available to meet with you</p>
<p>Besides....I think the admissions office forwards your contact info the CAAAN chair for your area...that takes time. Just try to relax...it is not the end of the world if you don't get a CAAAN interview.</p>
<p>Me. want. CAAAN interview.</p>
<p>:)</p>
<p>hmm what's a CAAAN interview? I know CAAAN is an alum association, but does it help you in the process something? Because the person that emailed me is part of CAAAN.</p>
<p>It's an interview that is purely informational...it's a chance for you to learn more about Cornell. The interviewer writes a narrative statement about you afterward...but it is very rarely used in the admission decision. </p>
<p>The only students who have an interview that is part of the admission decision are AAP, Hotel applicants and ILR transfer applicants.</p>
<p>So if I'm applying to CALS, it doesn't matter much? Reason I ask is I often get nervous during interviews, and if it won't help me I don't think I'll risk it.</p>
<p>I'm not a CAAAN interviewer....yet...so I don't know the specifics of the interview</p>
<p>But...I assure you it's not meant to be a stressful experience. The interviewer will ask you about your activities and why you're interested in Cornell...nothing horrible. It's also a chance for you to ask questions that you haven't had answered elsewhere....there's no reason not to do it ;-)</p>
<p>The point is that an interview is unlikely to help or hurt you. If you are offered an interview, you should go.</p>
<p>Hopefully I'll get offered one, I'd like to know I'm at least SLIGHTLY desirable to Cornell...</p>
<p>CALS doesn't offer interviews. I was freaking out earlier too (as a CALS EDer), because someone in my grade has an interview for Cornell today, but I remembered that she's applying to CAS and I found this and calmed down.</p>
<p><a href="https://admissions.cornell.edu/forms/FreshmanRequirementsChart.pdf%5B/url%5D">https://admissions.cornell.edu/forms/FreshmanRequirementsChart.pdf</a>
(look at the Special Requirements and Recommended Preparation column for CALS: "Interviews are not offered.")</p>
<p>There have been plenty of people who have applied to CALS that have gotten an interview call... check around the forums.</p>
<p>That's not what I mean by an interview. Yes I have noticed some people applying to CALS got phone calls asking if they had any questions.
The phone calls =/= interviews.
I mean an actual interview, like the ones they offer to (probably) all of the other college's applicants, especially Hotel and architecture, whose programs require interviews for admission.</p>
<p>I'm applying to HumEc and got the call from HumEc asking if I had any questions, but im sure HumEc applicants get CAAAN interviews... they're alumni interviews rather than the hotel/architecture on-campus interview</p>
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<p>The phone calls asking if you want to meet somewhere to ask questions is considered an informal interview.</p>
<p>Or maybe I'm just too sleep deprived for my cognitive abilities to function properly.</p>
<p>I don't even know. A girl in my grade claims everyone gets interviews. So I have no idea anymore.</p>
<p>Haha well I just got an email for a CAAAN interview, so again, I guess I don't know Cornell's exact interview (informal, that is) policy.</p>
<p>Still waiting for that email.</p>