<p>^^ Also Berea. [Visit</a> Berea College | Admissions - Berea College](<a href=“http://www.berea.edu/admissions/visitwithus/interviews.asp]Visit”>http://www.berea.edu/admissions/visitwithus/interviews.asp)</p>
<p>S did several interviews last year, all on campus with admissions reps, none with alumni. Whether the interview itself was key or the willingness to come to campus to do one (aka “interest”), I don’t know.</p>
<p>If there was an entry for “unique college” in the encyclopedia, the editors might put a picture of Berea next to it!</p>
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<p>Okidoki, that is one! </p>
<p>[University</a> of Rochester : Visit Campus : Interviews](<a href=“http://www.enrollment.rochester.edu/admissions/visit/interviews.shtm]University”>http://www.enrollment.rochester.edu/admissions/visit/interviews.shtm)
[University</a> of Rochester : College Admissions](<a href=“http://enrollment.rochester.edu/admissions/ask/default.shtm]University”>http://enrollment.rochester.edu/admissions/ask/default.shtm)</p>
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<p>But you’re not really knowledgeable about how “most adcoms” do things. You may be familiar with a handful. There’s a real tendency on your part to generalize that because you know 2,3,4,5 people whom you believe think X, that everyone thinks X.</p>
<p>Personally, I don’t think it’s a parent’s place to set up an on campus interview with a college. My aunt (she’s more of a mother) asked many times if I wanted her to set up my interview for Barnard, but I wouldn’t let her. Although I had nerves at first, it wasn’t something I couldn’t handle. I called and had to wait for the head of the office to come in to schedule my interview. Then, when I actually had my interview, it was on campus and with the adcom who will be reading my application. So, yeah, it was a big deal. And, she even told me that she knew that it was me who made the appointment. I didn’t think that it was appropriate that my aunt or my father or anyone else should call for me.</p>
<p>At the same time, I can understand the different time zone factor. But, I mean really, your kid isn’t able to go to the bathroom during lunch and call? Your kid has to have time in there somewhere.</p>
<p>To get rid of the “middle man” why don’t you just sit next to your kid or, like others have said, tell your kid what times you have available. Also, see if an interview is absolutely needed. </p>
<p>I think that calling for tours and such is a completely different deal and shouldn’t matter. Otherwise, if your kid has problems with not calling a college to schedule an interview due to his or her own personality or reservations about it, then maybe he or she isn’t ready to go to college where interaction happens everywhere.</p>
<p>swizzle13 – I can think of several reasons why it wouldn’t be a good idea for a student to call from a bathroom. My children who aren’t yet in college don’t even have cell phones, so they couldn’t call from school anyway. However, they’ve found e-mail to be a good way to deal with just about everything.</p>
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<p>My kid didn’t have a cell phone in HS. He was at school, followed by athletic practice/games/meets, M-F from 7:15 AM through at least 5PM, often later. How exactly was he supposed to make calls during office hours? </p>
<p>We ran into a big problem with this when he was a freshman and attempting to complete a science fair project that required some help from a university lab. He did the initial calling. The people at the local U first said sure, they’d help, then blew him off, made promises they didn’t keep, didn’t return calls or emails, etc, etc. When he called them after 4pm, the earliest possible time for him, they were invariably gone for the day. This went on for weeks.</p>
<p>Eventually I had to step in and make calls for him. By then, it was too late to complete the project in time for the science fair, he had to cut it short, and it negatively impacted his grade. My only mistake was not stepping in sooner. There are people who find it a lot easier to blow off a kid than an adult. I would not expect to encounter that behavior in an admissions office, though.</p>
<p>As it happens, S didn’t have to have any on campus interviews. The only U that seemed to want an interview with an adcom was the U of C. He contacted the person for our region via email. They ended up not doing an interview because it was not feasible to arrange it, and he got in anyway. So I guess it wasn’t that important.</p>
<p>If I thought it was significant, and his attempts to contact them via email were unsuccessful, I’d pick up the phone myself to set up an appointment. I would also explain that I was calling because he didn’t have access to a phone during office hours. It’s not like the parent is going to do the interview, for god’s sake. It;s just logistics.</p>
<p>Making a call from the BATHROOM???..oh my goodness…I can just imagine it…Student “I would like to discuss the issue of an interview with you…oh just a moment sir, the next stall is flushing and your voice is being drowned out…okay, they’re done…now, about the interview…”</p>
<p>Maybe it’s just the kids in my school then? Our teachers tell us to ask to go to the bathroom if we need to make a private phone call. It works. That’s what basically goes on in the bathrooms at my school…very few students go to actually go to the bathroom.</p>
<p>^ Fair enough. At most schools this would be…um, let’s just say awkward. Most kids carry cel phones at my kids school, however if they are visible during school hours they are confiscated by security. There are ‘blockers’ in most parts of the building so there’s no coverage anyway. I’d advise my kids to go to their guidance counselor and ask to use their cel phones from their office during lunch. Their GC is awesome and would certainly accommodate.</p>
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<p>For us, it wasn’t a matter of nerves, it was a matter of logistics. Many of the colleges my D was interested in required person-to-person phone contact (no email) to schedule interviews. This phone contact was possible only during the Admissions Office’s business hours. One could even call during those hours and still get an answering machine and a request for a call back. My D’s school did not permit students to carry phones and I did not wish to encourage her to break the rules. She didn’t have time during the day to play telephone tag with Admissions. They don’t care who makes the appointment. Now showing up for the interview with your kid is a different matter. That, I would not do.</p>
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<p>This wasn’t a real issue at my HS as students there could make such calls from a pay phone during their lunch period as we were allowed to take lunch periods off-campus, use the GCs’ phone to make such calls provided we were on good terms with them, or in extreme cases(i.e. Many calls in short period of time)…even take a “sick day” off from school to do it. </p>
<p>Granted, this was from my HS experience which took place well before the internet or cell phones became commonplace.</p>
<p>Claremont McKenna College on Interviews for Homeschooled Applicants:
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<p>I loved it. Had a sub-10% acceptance rate for the class of 2012 and it was the only college S was not accepted to. </p>
<p>S did on-campus interviews with admissions staff at Denison, Wooster, Earlham, Depauw, and in-person auditions and interviews at Duquesne, CCM, BGSU and Capital. In the first group, “interest” and interview ARE very important. In the last group, obviously music schools need to hear you to consider you and the majority favor those who do it in person (if they allow you to NOT do it in person at all).</p>
<p>So in *my *experience, interviews are indeed important.</p>
<p>I am a college prof. and even though I don’t tell the parents, my colleagues and I HATE when parents do the stuff their daughters or sons should be doing. I do have a lower first impression of a student when mom or dad do stuff for them such as scheduling something (the worse is when parents ask for grade changes in a test. Happens every semester and as a matter of principle I NEVER revise a grade if the student has mom call me, instead of coming to my office or e-mail me. But, I digress.)</p>
<p>I realize it’s hard to use a cell phone in class, but it’s not rocket science to set an appointment. Set an e-mail account and use that for the appointments. Most people prefer e-mail to phone anyway, and the e-mail can be sent anytime of the day.</p>
<p>Salander, I agree with you. However, I think many of us are not talking about students who are already in college dealing with faculty, but high school students with different schedules who are dealing with the admissions office and who may live 1000 miles away in a different time zone. Many admissions offices require students to call for interviews (as opposed to setting up group tours online,etc.).</p>