<p>I'm going to have an alumni interview soon and I plan to bring a resume with me. So shall I include my GPA, my rank and my scores in my resume? </p>
<p>Any idea is appreciated, thanks!</p>
<p>Andrea</p>
<p>Yale asks its interviewers not to ask for this info, but some interviewers break the rules.</p>
<p>My Yale interviewer asked for gpa, sat I and II scores, and class schedule</p>
<p>@AdmissionsAddict</p>
<p>Thank you for your information. So I’d better not to include this info in my resume? But how do the interviewer evaluate applicants’ academic abilities without this info? Or they do not evaluate this point, but other aspects?</p>
<p>@babylunabi</p>
<p>Thank you for your info. So what region do you live in?</p>
<p>@AdmissionsAddict</p>
<p>Add one point… If Yale doesn’t ask for this info, why do some interviewers still ask this? Are my scores of any use when the interviewer writes a report?</p>
<p>You’re overthinking this. Leave that info off the resume. Scores are not used in writing a report.</p>
<p>Interviewers are supposed to evaluate applicants without the bias that knowing GPA and scores cause. The purpose of interviews, as I see them, is to evaluate who would be fun to have on campus, who really lights up about their academic and extracurricular interests, and who radiates intellectual curiosity. If someone is arrogant or socially awkward, an interview may reveal this. Interviewers on this board have also uncovered inconsistent/untrue claims made by applicants or discovered that some really cool extracurricular was primarily orchestrated by the applicant’s parents.</p>
<p>Basically, the purpose of an interview is to get an off-the-record sort of look at an applicant, to get a feel for the person applying to Yale in a more personal way than is possible from just reading stats and essays. Because of this, stats like you’ve mentioned really shouldn’t be a part of the interview process and certainly not a part of the evaluation. AdmissionsAddict pretty much said it in the post above.</p>
<p>I just had my interview last Wednesday and the gentleman knew nothing about me but the school I attend and my name. We never covered any of my stats…I feel that if those questions do arise, it’s either because your interviewer is nosy or because you two have exhausted talking points (not a good sign). In either case, it shouldn’t be happening.</p>
<p>Good luck with your interview! :)</p>
<p>When my friend did her Harvard interview, the interviewer made her fill out a sheet that asked for test scores, GPA, class rank, demographic information, and extracurricular activities. She had to give this sheet to the interviewer at the beginning of the interview. </p>
<p>She hated doing this because she wanted the interviewer to evaluate her on the basis of personality, goals, and extracurricular activities. There’s no way that that sheet didn’t influence the evaluation.</p>
<p>@thereser: yes, for some odd reason Harvard interviewers ask for these stats. Makes no sense because all those numbers are in your application & evaluated by the admissions committee- should not be the interviewer’s job. It can also be, as you say, very off-putting. </p>
<p>Glad to hear that Yale generally does not.</p>
<p>I turn down resumes whenever offered - I don’t even want to look at them. In nearly all cases those bullet points are already known to admissions and I don’t want them coloring my report. By all means, if you have some new noteworthy achievement that occurs between the application submission and the interview, let the interviewer know. I sometimes specifically ask if there is something the applicant left off or would change about the application that they would want me to convey to admissions. I do ask about favorite classes and sometimes about the senior year schedule but never about GPA or standardized test scores. I’m not sure why the H alumni committees ask for those demographic sheets but that is a distinct difference in the interview process for both schools. A “C student” could be applying to Yale and have a charming personality and compelling life story and the alumni interviewers never know why he/she is turned down.</p>
<p>When I had my interview, the interviewer just asked about my interests, some activities that I was passionate about, etc. Not once did he ask about test scores, as the interview is supposed to addanother–more or less–subjective element to your application. An interviewer from another school asked for a resume, so I went ahead and printed a copy out and left it in my car, but I wouldn’t stress too much about your resume. If your he/she asks about test scores/GPA/rank, just politely answer his/her questions and move on.</p>
<p>The whole interview process is a lot less stressful than it’s made out to be. Although I despise trite phrases with a passion, “just being yourself” is probably the best advice. Best of luck!</p>
<p>My interviewer asked me for GPA/test scores and such, but that conversation lasted 5 minutes, tops.</p>
<p>My Interview for UMichigan asked for SAT scores. When I told him, I think he crapped his pants.</p>
<p>AIMEhigh,</p>
<p>Why do you think that he crapped his pants?</p>
<p>Many years ago, when DS was interviewed, he was asked about his SAT scores. He was also asked what other ivies he had applied to. All these question did not surprize him.</p>
<p>However, the interviewer threw him a curve ball, by asking what his PARENTS do during weekend. No other interviewer asked him this kind of question. As a high school student at that time, he felt a little bit uncomfortable in answering this kind kind of question.</p>
<p>Also, to answer the question about what other ivies DS had applied to, DS mentioned an Ivy which is not HYP (but is still an ivy, to the south of Yale) The interviewer made an arrogant comment: “Is that an ivy?” as if only HYP were ivies. I highly doubt he did not know that school is an ivy (He is 30-ish and at most 40 yo.)</p>
<p>Should DS become an interviewer in the future, I do not think he would ask such a probing question, or make such a comment about another ivy.</p>
<p>To his credit, after DS had been admitted, he wrote an email letter to congratulate him. But this interviewer did not show up in the “party” organized by local alumni for admitted students for the SCEA around.</p>
<p>I think Yale asks interviewers to write to accepted students.</p>