<p>I had my interview yesterday. We talked for about 45 minutes. I was a little nervous in the beginning but she was very nice, and I learned a lot about Yale in the process!</p>
<p>@kqguo10 where r u from? i still haven’t heard about anything about an interview</p>
<p>anybody from connecticut received an interview yet? I live in bristol and i haven’t heard anything yet…I submitted my application in the middle of october though</p>
<p>I’m from California, so there are probably plenty of alums in my area.</p>
<p>@kqguo10 yeah i bet, that’s a popular place haha</p>
<p>@kqguo10 btw how’s the interview??? is that frightening?</p>
<p>Do they email you or call you to set up an interview? My telephone number does not work as I am studying out of the States but am a U.S. resident. </p>
<p>Quick question: I realized that I forgot to self-report my AP scores to Yale when I submitted my common application in October, and it says on their website that they strongly recommend submitting them. I was thinking about either sending them an official report or faxing them a short note with the scores today. Does anyone have any suggestions or answers? @IxnayBob @Tperry1982 </p>
<p>My interviewer contacted me through email. I was pretty nervous in the beginning of the interview, but she was really nice and that helped as I went on. Definitely not frightening! Keep in mind they’re not trying to trip you up with their questions; they just want to learn more about you!</p>
<p>@Stargazer25, do not send an official report; it goes to the wrong place and is a waste of money. Send the scores with a short explanation. </p>
<p>Btw, I’m somewhat surprised that they strongly recommend sending them. I try to learn something every day and look, it’s not even noon yet :)</p>
<p>ETA: the official reports go to the registrar’s office and don’t make it to the AO. </p>
<p>@IxnayBob Thank you so much for all the help!! I will do that today :)</p>
<p>Have anybody not received an interview yet??? I’m pretty worried about that…</p>
<p>(raising a hand)</p>
<p>Hello guys,</p>
<p>So, I took a gap year and I neglected to write an essay about what I got up to during my year off on the common app. I was told that it would be a good idea to send an email to admissions telling them exactly what I got up to. Does anyone know to who/where such an email should go, in order to make SURE admissions sees it and adds it to the rest of my application.</p>
<p>Thank you in advance for your help!</p>
<p>Still haven’t received Eli account link 
I feel so confused and frustrated. All the initial handling of paperwork should be done by now. Everyone I know of has received his/her account details. Do you think I should drop Yale admissions an email, asking if my application was overlooked? </p>
<p>I haven’t received mine either, Hephaestus, but they definitely haven’t overlooked your application. Give them time. If you’re a week out from hearing back and still haven’t gotten your info, THEN you should be worried. </p>
<p>Thanks a lot billymayshere for that information. I was starting to feel singled out from the pool. It’s a bit normal now to know I’m not the only one.</p>
<p>@Blueintheeyes,</p>
<p>I am a fellow gap year applicant. I wrote my supplemental essay on the reasons I took the gap year and what I’m currently doing/hope to achieve from this gap year. I suggest, since you did not add that information to your application, to call your regional admissions officer and ask him or her the best way to go about this. When I asked my regional officer, she recommended that I write either my common app essay or my supplemental essay on this. She even said that if I put it in the “additional information” section on the common app, that it would be just as fine.</p>
<p>Adcomms tend to be very willing-to-help, and I’m sure yours will allow you to email a brief statement. If he or she lets you submit an email with this statement, do make sure to politely ask him or her to confirm that she or he has received the statement and will/has filed it along with your application. Adcomms are usually very good with this, but remember that they are human.</p>
<p>Best of luck.</p>
<p>Hi all. I think I posted earlier in the stream that I do interviews for Yale. I live in the DC Metro area where there are a lot of alumni so most students get interviews. Yale has started virtual interviews this cycle so that it can reach applicants in areas where there are fewer alumni and also as a nod to younger alumni who are more used to the virtual world. Since the interview report is the same for both in person and virtual interviews, there is no disadvantage or advantage to either.</p>
<p>I just did an interview for a SCEA applicant yesterday. Held it at Panera. Very informal, but I got a lot of information.</p>
<p>Also, remember that interviewers are Yale alumni and by the very fact that they are interviewing, are very involved, happy alumni. Use this as a means to ask them questions about Yale that you may not have gotten answers to from the literature. Ask them real questions - how was the food, what really happens during the first snowfall, are the professors helpful, how hard is the work, do I have to declare a major early, did you like New Haven? I could go on, but have some questions in mind to ask them. Do not ask about what test scores get you in, what class rank do you have to have or what EC do they look for. Sometimes I get to know more about an applicant from the questions they ask me and not asking any questions is a red flag (at least for me).</p>
<p>Good luck to all of you and relax, we are not that bad.</p>
<p>@Tperry1982, I have a question that I’d love your perspective on. </p>
<p>My kid got an initial email from the alum (also DC metro - but I am confident its not you!) last week suggesting a date - Friday of this week - she has replied twice and the alum has never responded. A freebie service email address was used to send the intro/interview scheduling email. We googled the name and found an alternate email address for the interviewer - what do you think of the idea of cc’ing the alum’s publicly available work email address with the third attempt to reply. </p>
<p>Either this person has had a life crisis or the email address doesn’t work, but it seems to me that being unresponsive for 7 days is far outside the expected window. On the other hand, I don’t want my kid to seem like she’s stalking this person - would it be creepy to get such an email in your work address? </p>