Second interview significance

Colleges and Universities A-Z Yale University
1

<p>I applied to Yale RD, and am presently just looking over my application, biding my time as I await a decision like everyone else. </p>

<p>I poked around, and I became aware of the rarity of two interview for Ivy Leagues. I, myself, received a second one. </p>

<p>What does that imply? Is it good? Bad? </p>

2

<p>T21E4 can probably give you a more accurate response, but my guess is that your first interview was inconclusive or in conflict with the assessment from Admissions. Here’s NorthStarMom’s take on second interviews for Harvard; it’s probably the same for Yale.</p>

<p>

</p>

3

<p>Or the local regional interview coordinator got confused and assigned someone twice. No on really knows. Best of luck to you</p>

4

<p>Was your first interview on campus? Then a second interview is not so odd. Very occasionally Yale asks for a second interview of a borderline candidate, particularly one who comes from a high school with which Yale has little experience. If both your interviews were alumni interviews, I agree with T26 that it was most likely an administrative error by the interview coordinator.</p>

5

<p>^^ Actually on-campus interviews are conducted by seniors at Yale and are separate from alumni interviews. Unless a student lives in an area that doesn’t have many alumni, most students that have an on-campus interview are also scheduled for an alumni interview.</p>

6

<p>My interview was not on campus, but the individual who interviewed me my second time acknowledged that it was my second one. </p>

<p>I don’t know if that means a whole lot, but it gave me the impression that it was an intentional scheduling for an unknown reason.</p>

<p>My school is by no means “high”; it sent one student to Stanford three years ago, and that was the first time in it’s history. </p>

<p>I think the prevalent theme is that I will never know the reason behind two interviews. I just hope for the best! Especially since the second one went considerably better than the first (he told me that I was the best candidate he had interviewed in his years!). </p>