<p>I know there's a reason, I just don't know what it is. Why doesn't Stanford offer interviews?</p>
<p>Because they think that they can learn the same kind of information from your letters of recommendation, which also come from people who have (hopefully) interacted with you, are familiar with who you are and what you do, and can tell the school what you would contribute.</p>
<p>From what I gather, interviews with most schools are formalities - taken into account last by the adcoms and rarely a swing-factor. Perhaps Stanford has decided it's not worth bothering with them?</p>
<p>Yeah, I think that's basically it. I guess Stanford feels that it learns nothing new from them, nothing that they don't see elsewhere in the application and in the recommendation letters, and since they aren't very important anyways, they might think it's just not worth it.</p>