<p>Hey guys,</p>
<p>I really wanted to inquire whether persons who conduct Brown interviews have an opportunity to know the result of APPLICANT’S admission in advance? I mean, before decisions are announced, will INTERVIEWERS have information of this? (In other words, if one wants to know decisions faster, it would be flexible to contact one’s interviewer) 
Has it ever happened that applicant was let know about acceptance from the interviewer?</p>
<p>No on all counts. Most interviewers are just alumni doing the School a favor by conducting local interviews. They don’t have your stats or any inside info on who you are and I’m certain there hasn’t been a case where the student was given any news of a formal acceptance by their interviewer(I could be wrong but I doubt it). If you’re asking because you either have an interview coming up(rather late one) or you read into some comments made at your already-conducted interview I’d have to say, take a deep breath and know that they have nothing for you in regards to “inside information.”</p>
<p>Hope you have/had a good interview . . .</p>
<p>If you read the Brown interview thread, I think they tell you that interviewers are told the results after decisions have been released to students.</p>
<p>Newtocollege is correct. Your interviewer won’t have much more information about you than your name, high school, and possibly a list of interests or intended concentration.</p>
<p>^Really? My Brown interviewer specifically told me to keep her “updated” because she said that Brown doesn’t notify them of our results.</p>
<p>they do, but you find out at least a week before we do and there is no set date we will find out (in contrast to you). In addition the university doesn’t directly notify us. They just change your status on our alumni interviewer web page so if I was your interviewer, it would be much more convenient for me to get a phone call or e-mail from you than to check the alumni interviewer page regularly.</p>
<p>Brown does not update the interviewer’s internal page that gives us the status of our interviewees until about 4 days after the students get access/notified. Interviewers are not allowed to contact the students until we get the official status change, so some interviewers let the students know that THEY are allowed to contact us during that “moratorium” in case the student needs advice or a listening ear. But Brown does let us know the results (only for the students interviewed, not any others).
I was a rare case where I actually did find out my admission status from my interviewer. Back in the snail mail days, someone there had keystroked my address into their data base one letter off (and that address also existed). I was a naive student from a big school with no guidance and thought no news was bad news. If not for my interviewer, I would have never ended up going to Brown!</p>
<p>Thank you for your responses everyone.
One more question I would love to have: How do students typically find our decisions of their admissions??? In other words, are we let know this via email, or packages come to our homes? Besides this, which way of understandinbg decision is better for us? In other words, what are you gonna do?</p>
<p>I interview for another Ivy. We are informed of decisions of our students 3-4 days later as well. This window is needed for the occasional situation where the student may not have accessed the info personally. The school doesn’t want a “congrats” call from me when the student may not have rec’d word first from the college. There are also NCAA rules of contact for recruited athletes that muddies the waters. Thus, the moratorium on info and contact from alumni volunteer interviewers/recruiters.</p>
<p>Thnx for your responses again.
And what happens if the student was admitted, but not offered apropiate amount of financial aid that is based on his/her need? Should student contact his/her interviewer to help to make a bargain with a college representative?
Any comments will be appreciated.
Thank you in advance :)…</p>
<p>No, never. The interviewer has nothing to do with financial aid offers. You will have to contact the aid office with your appeal.</p>
<p>^ and more, interviewers only serve as an additional pair of eyes/ears in the fact gathering process – they aren’t necessarily advocating for any person in particular but just reporting what they’ve encountered. Intimate info such as Fin Aid is definitely out of the ken of interviewers.</p>
<p>In support of creating a holistic nature for the alum interview process, I would think it important that the student begin by sending the interviewer a cordial thank-you note, after their interview. And later, should the student be accepted to one or more schools with alum interviews, I believe that the student should consider sending the interviewer a note to let the alum that they have decided to go to the alums school. I just think it is proper to follow up with alum interviewers from schools that you were accepted at, and especially to the alum of the school that the student decides to enroll at. Respectfully, Mr. VC</p>
<p>In the perfect Emily Post world, what Mr VC suggests would happen. But these days, rarely does. My student did send a thank you actually to the interviewer from a school where accepted but did not go to, as that alum was so encouraging and wanted to let the interviewer know how much they reflected positively on that school (student felt almost guilty about turning it down.)</p>
<p>Interviewers have absolutely no knowledge about the students financial status unless the student has brought it up in the interview.
Depending on the interviewer, while they can’t “do anything” about financial aide, and any appeals etc have to be between the student/parents and financial aide office, I have in the past had students call me in follow up and given them “talking points” to help in discussing with their parents re the “value” of an Ivy education, and tips on appeal if appropriate, as I’ve “been there, done that”. However the main message I give is that unless there is something very different from what you sent financial aide in the first place, while it might not hurt to try, your aide package “is what it is”.</p>
<p>Brown Alum Interviewers will be able to find out the results of their interviewees admission decision via their eBASC log in on April 2nd.</p>
<p>If interviewers find out April 2, what’s the notification date for applicant?</p>
<p>5 PM on March 29th.</p>
<p>[Brown</a> University Admission Decision](<a href=“http://admissiondecision.brown.edu/]Brown”>http://admissiondecision.brown.edu/)</p>