<p>My family knows someone who is very high up at NU and I was offered an interview.</p>
<p>If I nail the interview how much could this help me?</p>
<p>Well northeastern does’t interview, so… If you got an “interview”, it’s more like you’re meeting with someone high up, not like you’re having a structured interview- so there isn’t really any way to determine how much it’ll help. It obviously won’t hurt, and you should prepare for it like you would any interview for schools/jobs.</p>
<p>the letter said that it will give me an opportunity to discuss my personal goals and accomplishments. it used the word interview with an admissions member</p>
<p>Yeah I get that, I’m just saying that since we don’t really do interviews, you can’t really compare it. At a school that DOES do interviews for every (or most) students they want, then acing the interview is very very important. Some schools (mainly grad schools) will only request an interview from people they are interested in, so acing it is part of the next round of elimination. But northeastern does neither, so they could accept you on the spot or just put a dot on your application, who knows.</p>
<p>oh that makes more sense. thanks for the insight! i appreciate it</p>
<p>“Not doing interviews.”</p>
<p>That’s interesting, considering I have an alumni interview next Saturday that was set up through admissions.</p>
<p>Do the alumni interviews actually mean anything?</p>
<p>Same as I said above, in my opinion. However just cause it’s alumni, it doesn’t mean that it counts for less than directly with admissions. Columbia U, for example, does all of their interviews via alumni for out of state people. The difference isnt a big deal.</p>
<p>Umm, I’m an idiot. I for some reason thought this was a Northwestern forum…</p>
<p>So, hopefully my accident was a decent contribution…</p>