Anyway, how holistic is Yale? I am a little worried about my grades.
Did anyone get an interview in New York City?
My son applied scea from Nebraska
Keeping fingers crossed
Awaiting interview call/email
Hi, are you an Indian citizen? do u study in CBSE? I would love to know the grading system in your school, so I could see if mine holds up. Its just that Im so nervous abt grade deflation here
we are in NYC, no interview request yetâŠ
It kinda sucks that most of us (55%) will be deferred.
True. But whatever happens, we will certainly end up where we are meant to be. I wish everyone the best.
How Yale gives out the interview? One of my sonâs classmates who also applied Yale SCEA just did her interview, however my S hasnât got the interview yet. should we be worried?
From the Yale website:
https://admissions.yale.edu/faq/interviews
The interviewer assigned to your sonâs classmate may not be the same interviewer assigned to your son. No need to overthink.
thank you @skieurope. Yes we read it too that the interview is not required. But Weâve also heard people saying that the interviews are only given to those who pass the first round of application reviews. I know thatâs silly. But you are right, we will try not to overthink it.
Unless youâve âheardâ such a thing from an AO, chalk it up to urban legend.
Some context, 33,000 applications last year and 18,000 interviews completed. There just are too many applicants and not enough volunteers. It is still early in the interviewing process. I just got my first assignment mid last week.
I would like to know where you âheardâ about this.
When my daughter applied SCEA, she did not get her interview assignment until the week before Thanksgiving - and the interview was a day or so after the interviewer reached out.
thanks @BKSquared . Your post always has great insight. I guess I canât get over this is that if most or all of people admitted are from the bucket of those 18000 being interviewed. If the interview is any indication of passing some threshold of sort. But I think you are right, the interview process just started we will just wait.
My son got a student interview before he applied (he was at Yale for something else, and it was convenient). His alumnus interview was not until after his application (back then, you could do both).
Except in rare circumstances, the interviews are not really evaluative. I imagine you could be denied if you throw a glass of water at the interviewer. My son was nervous before hand, but it quickly became obvious that both interviews were looking to evaluate fit, in both directions. My son decided that he fit, and so did Yale. 
The Yale admissions website currently states that the interviews ARE evaluative:
âAn interview is not a required part of the application process, but we encourage you to meet and talk with a Yale alumnus/a or student interviewer when possible. An interview will help you learn more about Yale and will provide an additional opportunity to share information about yourself. All Yale interviews, both those with alumni and those with current Yale seniors, are evaluative. We read interview reports along with all your application materials. If you find that you have questions that cannot be answered here, please view our Interview FAQ page.â
Yes, the interviews are evaluative. We even assign a multiple choice grade at the end. We are suppose to provide qualitative commentary on the areas identified in the pinned thread on Yale Interviews. That having been said, what has been communicated to me is that the AOâs are using this commentary to confirm/round out the picture that the AO already has of the candidate through the application. A great interview is not going to convert a ânoâ to a âyesâ or a âyesâ to a ânoâ (absent something totally extreme). It might have some influence in the truly borderline cases. I think the AO weighs these reports for what they are, an impression of 1 person of a candidate over a 1/2 to 1 hour conversation.
@BKSquared, as always, you are helpful and careful in your posts. When I said âexcept in rare circumstances, the interviews are not really evaluative,â I should have been more careful in how I phrased it. Of course the interviewer will submit an evaluation, but, as you say, it seldom will convert a decision in either direction.
What I find sad is the number of applicants who had a great interview and think that it will result in an acceptance. I have heard, third hand of course, of some interviewers whose enthusiasm for the candidate gets them to say encouraging things about the report theyâll file. It is good for applicants to be optimistic, but when the overwhelming majority of them will not get the news that they hope for, everyone in the application process should be encouraging a realistic view.
@IxnayBob very true. I havenât saved up a record of all my interviews for over the years, but I would estimate that more than 90% of the applicants I have interviewed have gotten denied, including some very strong candidates (as far as I could tell since I did not have access to grades/test scores). I always wish my interviewees the best of luck in the process and remind them that their future success and happiness is not dependent on where they get accepted, but what they make out of their time there. An interviewer would be doing a disservice by giving false hopes; we have no clue what the candidate has submitted and how that has been received by the AO ,absent the rare case of some applicant who spends part of the interview talking about some major national award/recognition or the odd athletic recruit.