Hi guys! So I just received an invitation for an interview this morning. What do you think this means? Don’t the reports have to be in by December 1 for SCEA applicants? Does this mean the school is on the fence about me, am I being deferred, or what? Any advice or comments would be greatly appreciated!
Don’t read into it too much SAMS friend. If anything, they’re trying to entice you to commit right away.
@FreePariah Hopefully that’s what it is. I literally have the interview in like 3 hours… Hope we both get in!
How did it go?
@DLithium It could have been better it could have been worse. I think the interview decided how he was going to respond to the committee after the first 20 ish minutes because then he began if I had siblings or pets 
Take this with a grain of salt, but I’ve read somewhere on here that a late interview that doesn’t seem like an interview (phrased badly, but Idk how else to put that) can mean that it’s more of a recruiting tool rather than an evaluation, if you know what I mean.
@DLithium I hope so! We’ll see in just 3 days…
None of the interviews mean much for Yale. They are informative vs. evaluative. A late interview probably means the alumnus got a late start or took some time away and is furiously trying to finish up. Good Luck.
^ yes yes yes. NONE of these alumni interviews at selective schools mean very much. It is more a chance to make “connected” alumni (that is, those who continue to feel a strong emotional connection to the school) feel useful, and to give a face of the school to interested applicants. The interviewer was probably just behind and got nudged by the admissions office.
@donnaleighg @preppedparent So my late interview had no intentional meaning in your opinion?
Most likely no meaning. There is another thread where an interview was scheduled for the day before decisions come out — clearly too late to have any impact. There are very rare cases where the admissions people feel that they need more information and request an interview— one alum mentioned that he had gotten one such request over a 10-year period. But it’s volunteers who do the interviews and coordinate them, so they are not always perfectly timed.
I also had one of these with a current senior at Yale who works at the admissions office? She emailed me last week and set up a Skype interview, but didn’t explain why… I tried to ask her what it meant that I had been given such an interview, but she was very vague about it.
I think it went well… My interviewer was British and super sweet and friendly. She asked me a lot of questions about my friend group and non-academic things, which I wasn’t expecting. But I still don’t know why I was given an interview so close to the early decisions coming out. I guess I’ll know in 30 minutes lol
I had the same interviewer! It was very short and hurried, but we talked about quite a bit in that amount of time. I wonder if we can now gather more conclusive evidence as to what a late interview means. I thought it was odd that it was a Skype interview with a current student, b/c student-run interviews ended in october or november, and are only on-campus.