@whartonboy14 - Well, no admissions officer we have spoken with agreed with your statement. A US citizen is treated as a “US Citizen living abroad” for purpose of admission. Not an international application. Same for financial aid/merit/etc. However, if they are offering interviews in India - I would imagine they would offer to both “international” applicants as well as “US Citizen applicants.”
@CValle yeah precisely I agree with the financial aid statement. But a US citizen living abroad will be compared and evaluated with other citizen living in that same region. Not with US citizens in America. This is what I meant to say.
All who received an email for an interview- what did it look like? I have not received an email yet, and I am beginning to get worried- I checked all my junk mail and such. I live in a very rural area- perhaps there are no interviewers in my area. Should I contact the Office of Undergraduate Admissions?
Thank you very much, @BKSquared. It’s nice to see an insider’s stance. I’m kinda worried because my interviewer is about 70 and wants to go to a local McDonalds, but I’m hoping we manage to hit it off.
@Meaningoflife42, the older alums tend be the biggest “teddy bears”. Everyone of course is different, but if they are still interviewing, they obviously still have strong feelings of attachment. This alum most likely attended Yale when it was all male (or attended during the transition) and during the Vietnam War era. It should be easy to engage him in a conversation about how Yale has evolved since that time.
Good luck, have fun with it.
Just (couple of days ago) applied SCEA. So glad I’m done with one college app!! Does anyone know how important teacher recs are? My STEM rec really likes me but doesn’t really put in effort in her recs. She uses a template for every one of her students, although she did embellish a little with mine.
Also, I’m guessing interview offers come about two weeks after submission? The alumni association in my area guaranteed that everyone who wanted one, got one, so I was just wondering when I should expect an offer.
@Benji3025 I would assume that the emails vary by interviewer but mine went something like “Hi, I’m ___and I’ve volunteered to be your interviewer for Yale. I’m free these days at these times. Please let me know where and when you would like this interview to take place” (obviously more formal than that but that’s the gist of it).
There is a chance that alumni interviewers aren’t available in your area. However, remember that Yale can’t hold it against you in any way. The only other alternative would be to schedule an on-campus interview but, again, that isn’t expected in any way.
@culaccino I wouldn’t say that two weeks after is a hard and fast rule (@writergirl0316 and I have already gotten emails from our interviewers). I would guess that when interview offers come in vary by region and alumni association.
AHHH December 14 can’t come soon enough!!! Finally decided to hop onto this thread with all the rest of you. I applied SCEA and am now a nervous wreck, so might as well be nervous wrecks together right! I already got my portal but now I’m waiting to see if I’ll get an interview.
Since they opened up two new residential colleges, do you think that there will be better acceptance rates this year?
@Benji3025: My experience was similar to what @dreamsofbrown describes. I received the email about a week and a half after I got my confirmation email from Yale. My interviewer introduced himself, said he was my interviewer, described how long the interviews usually are & where they’re held, and said he can meet with me any day of the week of the 13th.
The only thing, though, is that I emailed him about an hour after he responded on Thursday when works for me, and he hasn’t responded since. Any thoughts on when would be appropriate to follow up? I was thinking maybe Wednesday or Thursday of this week (if he doesn’t reply by then), but not positive.
@MyDogsNameIsFat I suspect that the acceptance rate will stay around the same or decline a bit. Although the target class size has increased, so will the number of applicants in all likelihood. Also, colleges never really like to advertise their acceptance rates increasing- some colleges (*cough UChicago *cough) do whatever manipulation they need to with their numbers to have it decrease. 
Woah. @benji3025 do you mind elaborating on that number twisting part? I’m not applying to UChi, just curious
@culaccino For last year’s admission cycle (aka the freshmen Class of 2021), UChicago did not release its acceptance rate following regular decision release as all other colleges did, but instead just recently released it in the middle of October. Many (I included a link to the CC thread- http://talk.qa.collegeconfidential.com/university-chicago/1977458-2021-admissions-statistics-p1.html) have speculated to why this was done, but my own interpretation is that due to the increased acceptance rate, the university did not want talk of it being “less prestigious” and thus released the statistics as late as possible after many had already decided on applying EA/ED. UChicago also added an EDI and EDII option likely in hope of increasing its yield and accepting fewer during the RD/EA rounds. Harvard is kinda doing the same thing this year… the university announced that they would accept up to 100 students off of last year’s waitlist into the Class of 2022, thus decreasing the number of spots to fill this admissions cycle (http://talk.qa.collegeconfidential.com/harvard-university/2019046-harvard-will-accept-fewer-students-in-class-of-2022-p1.html). It has been thoroughly discussed (see thread) that Harvard may be doing this to lower their acceptance rate for the Class of 2022 and to “beat Stanford” for the “most selective U.S. college/university” title. I guess you can see that I am applying to Yale with an intended major in stats lol 
Sorry for this (off topic) information in the Yale 2022 thread- best of luck to all with Yale and other college decisions 
@Benji3025 wow super informative answer. That’s sketchy af, but oh well. Luckily I don’t have a dream school so rejections from these top tier schools won’t hurt me 
Just got an email from my interviewer! I’m a little nervous about it since it’s gonna be over Skype. I would have preferred face-to-face but I’ll take what I can get! For reference I submitted my application on November 1. (I had actually had it done a lot earlier but I was just so nervous that I kept pushing it back into the last moment whoops)
I’m so paranoid/frustrated about not getting an interview request from Yale yet… I really love the university! Best of luck to all that have received emails.
Got an interview tomorrow! Wish me luck 
@nicknick567 @MyDogsNameIsFat where are you guys geographically located
Anyone from Singapore received an interview yet?
@karen88 if you know anyone who’s got an interview in singapore, they’re in. It’s selective in the EA round for internationals.
@whartonboy14, you are so wrong. I interviewed for close to 10 years for international candidates when I was based overseas. I interviewed candidates that were accepted and candidates that were rejected in both the EA and RD rounds. The fact is that Yale’s admissions rate is less than 7%, and it is even lower for internationals so that the vast number of applicants will be rejected. Interviews are granted based on the number candidates for a region and the number of available alumni. In fact there has been a major push for alumni interviewers who are willing to do “Skype” type interviews for underserved regions, including international.
The deadline for SCEA applications was Nov 1. It is only the morning of Nov 7. The review process for all candidates is the same. A regional AO is tasked with the first reading of all applicant files for his/her region. Some may be tossed based on the first reading. Those that survive the first cut are read by a second reader. If they both concur that the candidate is worthy of consideration by the full admissions committee, that candidate’s file will be put up for consideration where the original AO will serve as the presenter/advocate. It is impossible for any decisions to have already been made except for athletic recruits and potentially super hooks like children of major donors at this date. Because of the tight timelines, interview scheduling has to be run in parallel to the admissions assessment. It takes time to sort the candidates by region, for the regional ASC director to make the assignments, for the interviewers to contact the interviewees, schedule the interviews and then write the reports to fall within the decision deadlines. While I would not be terribly surprised that for some regions certain candidates are weeded out early for interviews because of the large number of candidates relative to a small number of interviewers, I know it is Yale’s goal to interview as many candidates as we can. Getting an interview is never an assurance of admissions.