Super late interview, good or bad sign?

<p>Ok, so today I got a call from a Yale alum wanting to do an interview and we decided on to have it this Wednesday. Is it unusual to get an interview this late in the application process, seeing as we get our decisions in two weeks? is it a good or bad sign?</p>

<p>Unusual yes. Good sign, probably. Yale still wants to know something about you. You’re still in contention.</p>

<p>This happened to me SCEA. I was deferred, but am convinced that this is a good sign.</p>

<p>Unfortunately, it’s probably not a good sign (but fortunately, it’s not a bad sign, either!). I had my interview a couple of weeks ago, and the woman I met with apologized for having the interview so late; she said it was because of a problem with the database that is supposed to give the alumni the names/info of students to interview. At least, that was the case for me (I live in the Chicago area).</p>

<p>Good sign, sort of. The reason you were not interviewed earlier may have to do with a problem with the database, etc., but I don’t think they would bother to do anything about it now unless someone in New Haven were asking for it. Which probably means you are on the bubble – not in, but not out yet, either (unlike 90%+ of the applicants at this point).</p>

<p>JHS took the words out of my keyboard. +1.</p>

<p>Something similar happened to me last year: I applied early and was contacted for an interview on literally December 9 or 10, and admissions were slated to come out on December 15. I was deferred but then accepted, so I don’t know how important the interview was.</p>

<p>I remember subtly commenting on how late the interview was, during the interview, but my interviewer seemed fairly oblivious. He said something about there being few interviewers to handle all of the interviews in my city, and said that they sometimes get to some people late. Nothing during the interview indicated that it was special in any way… In restrospect, I don’t think my interviewer was even aware that admissions decisions were going to be released in like five days.</p>

<p>i don’t think anything concerning an interview is either good or bad, unless you are contacted for a second interview or something. yale, like most other colleges, tries to interview as many people as possible so they can get to know each of its applicants better. having a late interview means…<em>wait for it</em>…that you’re getting a late interview. no big deal.</p>

<p>but because its so late i might be a little worried that the information might not get processed. i don’t know. i’m not a yale admissions officer.</p>

<p>^If Yale admissions specifically asked that they make sure a given candidate is interviewed, I’m sure they would follow up and get the information.</p>

<p>I know someone who was called two years ago around a week before decisions came out. Yale mysteriously wanted to have a current student give her a campus tour. Turns out, she was accepted…</p>

<p>@JHS that would be fantastic if that were the case!</p>

<p>I had my interview around this time (maybe a little later) three years ago and was accepted regular decision. I’m convinced that my interview is what got me in. I live in an area where there is a large number of Yale alums so I could have had one earlier. My interviewer loved me and when I talked to my regional admissions person, he mentioned things that my interviewer had told him about me. Thus, I think this is a good sign.</p>

<p>im 99% sure the interviews arent set up by the admissions office. So its probably not a good or a bad sign.</p>

<p>I think it is a very bad sign.</p>

<p>Or maybe a very good sign.</p>

<p>I had my interview on the very last day – as in, the day all the interview letters were supposed to be faxed into the admissions office. </p>

<p>I still got in. You’re okay.</p>

<p>Hockey,</p>

<p>The admissions office farms out the interviews to regional coordinators. If one was requested in the 11th hour I’m pretty sure the local interviewer didn’t spontaneously remember his or her assignment almost a month after the deadline. </p>

<p>So yes, I would think the admissions office was behind it, hence the suggestion the applicant is on the bubble. </p>

<p>But who knows. </p>

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