<p>I live in deep south, no chance of getting interview?
I submitted my app mid-October…and I have had my Eli account for about two weeks now</p>
<p>I had an on-campus interview with a senior this august AND I have an interview this Friday with an alumnus. (which is pretty lucky because I didn’t do too well the first time)</p>
<p>my daughter has on-campus interview in a few days. from what i’ve gathered, that interview will be conducted by a student?</p>
<p>what does/did she need to do to also get an alum interview?</p>
<p>she lives in a metro area where there are plenty of yalies.</p>
<p>good luck to all.</p>
<p>be well</p>
<p>dod</p>
<p>@dadofdaughters: On-campus interviews are conducted by senior students at Yale.</p>
<p>There is nothing she can do to get an alum interview. Once she submits her application, the interviewer will contact her.</p>
<p>I have an interview at an alumna’s house. Does this happen a lot? I had two college interview before (one on campus, one at a cafe) and I thought the dorm was a public place.</p>
<p>Hey guys, should I be concerned if I have a friend who is a fellow SCEA applicant from my school and submitted my application after mine, but already got an interview notification while I haven’t heard anything?</p>
<p>^
Hm, that’s fishy.
I know everyone saying it doesn’t matter if you don’t get an interview, but I can’t see how Yale would randomly assign interviews when there’s a limited number of interviewers to begin with.</p>
<p>Nikkor, is there any standardized thing that differentiates you guys? I can only think the computer just takes the highest SAT scores down until it runs out of spots or something, as I don’t see how they could assign so many interviews quickly and efficiently with such a result otherwise (seemingly not in order of who submitted first).</p>
<p>I highly doubt, if not fully disagree, that Yale gives people interviews according to their standardized test scores. If that was the case, I wouldn’t have gotten one lol.</p>
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<p>His SAT score is indeed higher than mine, but only by 30 points, and both of ours are above the 2300 threshold.</p>
<p>On the other hand, my GPA is higher than his (but also by a negligible amount. Around the ballpark of 0.1, I think).</p>
<p>my interviewer had a manila folder (with my name on it) with my stats in it. there were definitely a few pieces of paper in that folder, though i don’t know if they were my entire application or just a summary of my scores. he also told me: “if you weren’t qualified, i wouldn’t be here.”</p>
<p>last year, the same guy came to interview students at my school. he said yale gave him the qualified kids (whatever that means) to interview (there were kids who didn’t get interviews and were rejected).</p>
<p>i’m no ■■■■■. i think each region runs things differently.</p>
<p>I live near a major city, and still nothing :/</p>
<p>I can think of no reason why that happened then…
Luck of the draw I guess? Best of luck to you anyway (and your friend I guess heheh)!!
I haven’t gotten an interview yet either, so I share the boat :(</p>
<p>also, my interview was below average. he had only around three questions prepared for me, and i bombed the very first one because i’d never expected an interviewer to ask me something like it. i wanted to explain why i didn’t know the answer to his question, but i ended up frantically trying to say ANYTHING to fill the silence, which made me sound superficial and ignorant. after the interview, i knew exactly what to say, but couldn’t think of it earlier because i was on the spot. the rest of the interview went well, and he said he’d write good things (which he says to everybody), but man, did i really blow the interview.</p>
<p>there goes my effort. i really did come prepared for the interview; i just didn’t see that question coming. and it was a fairly predictable and fair question. my mother was so disappointed. she won’t even look at me right now. sometimes i make myself feel better by telling myself the question was unfair to ask of me, but that’s bologna. i wanted my interview to go well so much, and i blew it. i’d like to think of myself as a good guy, but the interview really didn’t show it. i cried the moment i got home. i think i’m going to cry again. man, i want yale so bad, but ugh how can i live with myself right now.</p>
<p>Nikkor50mm,</p>
<p>i doubt that you have anything to worry about. you are pretty much one of the only people i’d expect to get into yale early. i have a friend at yale who said many of his peers did not receive interviews. if you don’t have an interview, the adcoms will just look at the rest of your divinely chiseled application. </p>
<p>however, if you do get an interview like i did, you might want to have a good one. a bad interview will effectively cast your application into rejection-oblivion. i’ve lost all hope for myself. it’s all you now, Nikkor50mm. get into yale early for me. give me hope that the adcoms really do accept the right people.</p>
<p>Nikkor50mm,</p>
<p>i didn’t address that you have a classmate who did receive an interview. i wouldn’t worry about it. you’re better than him, and you know it – that’s why you worry in the first place. sometimes, the world ends up being a chaotic, illogical place. you just have to accept that. you’re a good person, Nikkor50mm. you better believe it.</p>
<p>yale, like any organization, fights an uphill battle against the disorderly nature of the universe.</p>
<p>Yale does not release any application information to interviewers besides name, gender, EA or RD, phone number, e-mail, address, school, declared major, on campus interview Y/N, and application date. I do not believe that your interviewer had your scores and that goes against the philosophy of the alumni interview process. The fact that they have a line referring to on-line interview suggests you can get an alumni interview after an on-campus interview. I don’t recall if I’ve interviewed someone like that before. It means nothing that your friend sent in a later application and already got an interview request. Perhaps the alumni interviewers got the assignments at the same time and one of them was quicker to act on the request. I know of one student who was given a 4 on his/her interview report on a scale of 1 to 9 and got in so felixfelix, all hope is not lost. I didn’t do that interview but it was a surprise that they got in when so many of our “7’s” don’t. The general agreement is that interviews are the least important part of the application and your interviewer said he would write good things and understands that you are “on the spot” and may get flustered.</p>
<p>Felixfelicis, do I know you? I’m pretty sure I never posted my stats anywhere on the site, and they aren’t even that good, so I’m not sure why you’d arrive at that conclusion…</p>
<p>I wrote this question on the Yale 2015 SCEA Hopefuls thread but I think that it is probably more suitable for this thread:</p>
<p>If I was to be given an interview, would it had been regardless of whether Yale had received my test scores? (which would mean that my application is complete, right? Please correct me if I’m wrong.) I used the free score reports to send my SAT scores to Yale, and CollegeBoard said that the order would not be placed until 11/15 (b/c I can make edits to the score recipients and/or choose scores up until that date). I also took the my SAT Subject tests in November. I heard that it takes at least three weeks for a school to receive your scores from CB.</p>
<p>YaleGradAndDad, thank you for giving me hope.</p>
<p>backfing, i’m sorry for my posts. i will turn the other cheek. but then i’ll be out of cheeks. no, wait – i have two more on my bottom. but after that, i’ll be out.</p>