<p>My interviewer for Princeton will be interviewing me over the phone. I have already had one interview for another college in person, but I am just wondering why my Princeton interview is not in person. I have done my research, or extensive googling, on the guy interviewing me: class of '69, doctor of internal medicine in city 2 hours away from where I live (travel time doesn't matter to me, I would drive as far as I have to). Could it be because of a high number of interviews requested from him, or Princeton not considering me a great applicant. Or am I over thinking this whole thing?</p>
<p>You’re overthinking it. Being in person vs. over the phone won’t matter.</p>
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<p>I’m an alumni interviewer. Princeton tries to have every applicant interviewed by an alum. That’s a mammoth undertaking – having 25,000 applicants interviewed by who-knows-how-many volunteers.</p>
<p>No one is pre-screened by admissions before they are sent to your area’s alumni interviewing coordinator, a volunteer who tries to find someone nearby who will interview you.</p>
<p>Neither the area alumni interviewing coordinator nor the alumni interviewer know anything about you other than your name, location, high school and contact information.</p>
<p>This person is doing this by phone for one of two reasons, I bet:</p>
<p>1) He doesn’t want to spend too much time on it.</p>
<p>Or, more likely:</p>
<p>2) He doesn’t want you to drive 2 hours for the interview. I wouldn’t ask a high school kid to drive two hours to come see me, and would discourage the person to do so if the applicant offered.</p>
<p>Don’t sweat it. Admissions won’t penalize you because the interview was handled by phone.</p>
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<p>PS: My nephew is a freshman at a non-Ivy school, but one that is a very good school. The alum who interviewed called the day my nephew got back from his first semester. This will tell you something. The alumni interviewers are on the side of the applicant. We want to have local kids kid in and go to our schools. We hate seeing good kids get turned down, and almost all of the kids we interview are very, very good.</p>