<p>Hey all, am applying SCEA as well...have my oncampus interview tomorrow, and im not really sure what to expect...</p>
<p>psychicspies, good luck with your interview! I can't wait to do my interview. I really wish I had done one on-campus, but I'll have to settle for an alumni interview. In my experience, on-campus interviews (at least at the schools I did them at) were better than alumni interviews...because sometimes if they like you they'll have you chat with your regional admissions officer. They'll talk to you about your stats and make recommendations about your application (happened to me at UChicago and I was thrilled!).</p>
<p>Cookie, that is SO cool. Not expecting that at Yale though... Which schools did that for you, if you don't mind sharing?</p>
<p>UChicago, Wash U</p>
<p>My on-campus interview is next Friday. <gulp></gulp></p>
<p>My on-compus went well enough I think. She started talking about pizza and whatnot. I will have to admit that the pizza was exceptional. No one from around here (northeast MS) ever applies to Yale (or any ivy) so I'm kinda solo down here. glad this place exists.</p>
<p>Did you get pizza at Pepe's? It's awesome. I'm gonna go there for the third time when I go for my interview. =P</p>
<p>I've only visited Yale once. We hopped on an early-morning train from Boston, I think it was (some city reasonably far-off from New Haven), got to Yale where the weather was crappy (made the campus look TERRIBLE) and did a lame tour with a preppy, show-off-y tour guide. The info session was pretty good but the rest of the visit sucked. I love Yale, though...so who cares!</p>
<p>I hate Boston because it always rains when I visit. By always, I mean two for two.</p>
<p>How do you schedule an alumni interview?</p>
<p>You don't. After you apply, a Yale alum from the ASC contacts you if they're available. It isn't held against you if they're not available, though. So basically all you have to worry about is getting your app in.</p>
<p>You don't have to schedule interviews yourself? Weird. Are you sure about that, theoneo?</p>
<p>For alumni interviews. Well, you schedule the interview with the interview yourself, but they contact you first.</p>
<p>See <a href="http://www.yale.edu/admit/visit/interviews/index.html%5B/url%5D">http://www.yale.edu/admit/visit/interviews/index.html</a></p>
<p>I think Yale will be the one for me, but I'm also considering MIT (I'm worried about MIT because I want to maintain a small, BUT EXISTENT social life.</p>
<p>I'm applying SCEA too! I'm really nervous though. I really like Yale and it'll be tough to get a rejection. I just had an Alumni Interview, so I can tell you that you can sign up for an interview yourself, but I don't think you have to. If you are really nervous though, it;s better to sign up for one for yourself because you'll definitely get one that way. And to fhimas, I was considering MIT too, but I heard it has a high suicide rate, not a good sign for me. Plus I'd like to have a more balanced curriculum than all Math and technical courses.</p>
<p>As for senior year, BRING IT ON! I can't wait for it all: senior prom, senior week, freshmen days, etc. It's gonna be great. 07 baby!</p>
<p>Does Yale have rolling admissions - as in if you get 'rejected' in scea, will you actually get deferred and get additional consideration in regular admission.</p>
<p>nope, if ur rejected in scea, ur rejected period.</p>
<p>chris what kind of questions did the alumni ask?</p>
<p>chris07 - how did you get an alumni interview this early? Also, MIT doesn't have only math and technical courses... it has a stellar business program from what I hear.</p>
<p>Um, I know this is the Yale forum, but to those of you worrying about MIT's perceived lack of social life/high suicide rate: I have a friend at MIT right now and she LOVES it there. She says she always has tons of fun with her friends and they do all kinds of social stuff. When she first arrived at MIT, she couldn't stop gushing about how incredibly fun it was for like a month. She even did frat rush in September of her freshman year.</p>
<p>You can sign up for interviews online. It wasn't with an alumni, sorry that I said that I got the phrase in my head from reading the other posts. It was with a current student. I'm not sure if there's much of a difference, but if there is it doesn't matter too much I'll just hope for an Alumni interview with my application. But the current student was really nice. She asked me a bunch of questions, but they were all really hid in the conversation. I think that was a good sign, it was all really continuous. First she asked about my school, what it's like there, and what I would change about it if I could change anything. Then she talkede about some of the htings on my resume (I reccomend bringing one of them, it impresses them and most people I saw there with other interviews didnt have one, so it kind of sets you apart). Then she asked me what books I liked, what character I related to. She asked me what my favorite class was in all my years of high school. What event made me really happy recently. What challengs have I overcome (don't worry it can be as small as studying for the SAT, she said ). It was all pretty easy stuff. Just be prepared for it all.</p>
<p>And I got an email from Yale to register for an interview in June, but you can also go to yale.edu, click on the admissions part, go to application section, interview should be a button the side, click it, and theres something called an interview scheduler ( a link on the pge) you can sign up for. It's really easy.</p>