<p>Interviewers do know the decesions. My interviewer told me she would be checking the boards when decisions came out.</p>
<p>Yeah, someone on last years thread claimed they were told by their interviewer that they were accepted, the day before the decisions were actually released. This could have been fake, but I was just wondering.</p>
<p>Interviewers do know the decisions for their interviewees and are required to offer themselves as a point of contact for more information for those that are accepted.</p>
<p>Can you be interviewed by an Alumni that you know?</p>
<p>Probably, but you can’t be related to them. I work at microsoft and found a list of Duke alumni interviewers on their Global Adress List, including some that lived in my area. I could have requested one of them to interview if necessary. Luckily enough for me one of them actually was assigned me, so I got an interview from someone at Microsoft!</p>
<p>Longsx3: No, interviewers are asked to not interview those that they know or are related to. In addition, they are asked to not interview during any cycle in which a family member is applying to Duke.</p>
<p>Thanks for the info, The person we “Know” is someone that my husband was stationed with during our first assignment in the Air Force and hasn’t seen D’13 since 1996 (the yr she was born) but I thought she might be more at ease around him all though they don’t know each other. Oh well maybe he could help her warm up so to speak.</p>
<p>BUMP for everyone going into the admissions process!</p>
<p>Rats. I would have liked to have read through this thread before my son’s interview. It all went well (to quote him “Pretty good”), so we aren’t really worried, but what I found interesting was when the call first came and I heard the name on our caller ID, my very first thought was, “Why in the heck is my son’s eye doctor from 14 years ago calling us??” I recognized the last name. Turns out the interviewer was the docs husband, whom we’d never met before, but his daughter had gone to school with my son. Also, his nieces and nephew, and his brother and brother’s wife were close friends of our family back in the elementary school days. But, since my son didn’t actually know him, it seemed OK.</p>
<p>@my3gr8boyz: Don’t worry about it. The onus is on the interviewer to identify potential sources of conflicts of interest and if necessary to inform Duke and/or recuse him/herself. From what you’ve posted, it isn’t a huge deal and not likely to raise any red flag (Duke probably won’t even know).</p>
<p>My son had his interview today and it went great. He applied RD and has to wait until April!!!
Most of he questions he answered is in this blog [Sooo</a>… Tell Me About Yourself: Current Interview Questions: Duke University](<a href=“http://www.soootellmeaboutyourself.com/2009/11/current-interview-questions-duke.html]Sooo”>http://www.soootellmeaboutyourself.com/2009/11/current-interview-questions-duke.html)</p>
<p>My interview is in 2 days and I just thought of a question. We are scheduled to meet at a local Starbucks. How are we going to recognize each other? I don’t know how he looks and I don’t think he knows what I look like. Help please!</p>
<p>Email him asking for some specifics on how to identify him and also give him suggestions on how he should identify you. Clothing would be a good suggestion.</p>
<p>Or ask for a cell phone number</p>
<p>Honestly if the Starbucks is a small place (ie suburbia and not downtown New York) you should easily be able to find your interviewer</p>
<p>Usually it’s pretty easy for an interviewer to identify the person who looks like a high school teenager, with no prior information.</p>
<p>It’s Starbucks we’re talking about. It’s ridden with teenagers.</p>
<p>Did you find them?</p>