<p>I emailed the head of the alumni interviewers and she said that I did not have an alumni interviewer in my area, so if you still have questions email her. otherwise i would have spent a lot of time worrying in vain. her email is on the school website</p>
<p>i had mine today; it was pretty good.
my interviewer was real nice. we had similar interests so yay.</p>
<p>she asked the usual ECs, why yale, good books/movies u read/saw lately, favorite class, influential person, etc.</p>
<p>i felt like i talked fluently but inarticulately; boo.
now really just have to wait till 12/15....</p>
<p>Just to answer some of the questions other posters have posed: </p>
<p>About two days after receiving my Eli account information, I received an e-mail from my interviewer. Apparently they also have your phone number, which means they could potentially call you. </p>
<p>Interview: </p>
<p>We met at a local coffee shop, and we were supposed to speak for about 45 minutes. The discussion was very conversational, and she didn't really have to ask many questions. As she asked, I brought a list of questions about Yale, and we discussed each one individually. The interview ended up being 1.5 hours rather than 45 minutes. </p>
<p>To anyone preparing for their interview, don't worry. It was actually pretty fun.</p>
<p>My interview went pretty well, though it lasted just 45 minutes (my guy had somewhere to be). He said he'd write me a good report, though I'm paranoid that I didn't present myself in a clear enough way.</p>
<p>itsasmallworld, your interview sounds almost exactly like mine. Mine lasted 45 minutes because my interviewer had somewhere to go. She also told me she'd write something good. I think it went well and it was pretty relaxed. I couldn't stop smiling and laughing with her. She was so cool.</p>
<p>I had an on-campus interview with a senior at yale. She was very nice and the interview was pretty typical. She started off by asking me about my high school experience, then why yale, what have I done over the summers, what are my ECs. I was pretty nervous though, first interview, and I only talked about one EC, whoops. But it was cool that we were both NJ gov school science scholars. Some of you CCers' interviews sound really exciting compared to mine. I thought mine went pretty well, but now I don't know!</p>
<p>Mine was ehh. She didn't really seem like she was interested in what I was saying. She asked the typical questions -- what do you do extracurricular, what do you want to get out of Yale, what would you change about your high school, etc. I asked her a few questions myself, and then the meeting ended. Not stellar, but not terrible either, I guess. :P</p>
<p>aww shoot rachel. i should've interviewed there too ;)</p>
<p>I interviewed at an alumni's home, who shared many of the same interests as me. I rambled a lot and it was an hour and almost a half, but it wasn't very focused. I do hope she caught my enthusiasm though. :)</p>
<p>I somehow managed to be interviewed on campus by a rising senior and at home by an alumna. </p>
<p>My on-campus interview went pretty well; I had a great, easy-flowing conversation with the interviewer, and I somehow managed to mention how my friends and I are obsessed with Project Runway and that we have ABBA dance parties after especially stressful weeks.</p>
<p>The alumni interview was a totally different experience. My interviewer was extremely intellectual and she asked a lot of rather deep questions that went far beyond other questions I've answered during interviews. She showed a genuine interest in me as a person and not as an applicant, which I thought was really great. However, because of this aspect of the interview, I'm afraid that I might have totally dug my own grave in terms of getting into Yale. At one point my interviewer asked me where I would go if I were accepted to all of the schools I applied to, to which I answered "I think I'd have to visit extensively in the spring to see where things felt right." As soon as I walked out of the coffee shop I realized that I just should have said "YALE!" However, later in the interview my interviewer said that she found it really refreshing that someone was focused on fit rather than name brand, so maybe she liked my answer...</p>
<p>Whatever, I'm still not expecting anything come December 15...</p>
<p>I just got a phone call from a guy who told me I'd be contacted for an interview later. We talked for about 40 minutes about my standardized test scores, extracurriculars, and academic interests, and when I mentioned I want to get into business, he tried to persuade me not to do so, which was a little weird. But he was a very nice guy and had a lot of interesting things to say... and THAT WAS JUST THE PRE-INTERVIEW CALL!</p>
<p>I wonder what the actual interview will be like.</p>
<p>Also, does this mean that everyone from my school who applied early gets an interview or do they sort of pick and choose?</p>
<p>Okay, so I just posted twice, BUT:
the guy asked what other schools I was applying to. That was awkward.</p>
<p>I just had my interview. She was a recent Yale graduate, and our interview was super casual. We met at Starbucks and just had a very natural conversation. She didn't have a set of questions... we just talked. It last about an hour, and at the end, I felt like we were friends, since she was so young.</p>
<p>My interviewer emailed me saying that she normally interviews applicants for 30 minutes. O.o is this a bad thing lol...? it seems like everyone else has 1 hour interviews....</p>
<p>no it's not a bad thing. my friend got in early last year, and her interview was 20 minutes. i think interviews play a very insignificant role in the admissions decision.</p>
<p>What do you do to prepare yourself? I have NO CLUE as to what i should do to avoid awkward moments lol. </p>
<p>What kind of questions did they ask? Does the interviewer have your entire profile with them? Also, if your interviewer told you to meet them in their "office" does this mean I should dress formally?</p>
<p>^^ I would read the stickied thread up top (or skim, it is a bit long) about RD Interviews. It's basically a guidebook to the Yale interviews.</p>
<p>My interview rocked. We talked about newspaper staffs, politics, feminism, homework, and every topic under the sun. I was pretty pleased. :)</p>
<p>i thought my interview went really well... at one point we started talking about what i'd be doing later on in the summer, so i told her i was going to visit my aunt in durango, and it turned out she was from durango too. so that was pretty cool.</p>
<p>My interview went fairly well. I embarrassed myself a few times, as is expected in any human interaction I have, but nothing disgusting or anything like that. Just moments of inarticulateness. The questions were pretty standard and I did a lot of talking. My interviewer kept ending it and I always had an extra point I had forgotten to bring up. I think he was concerned about time because he thought I had another arrangement, but it could have been that HE had another engagement. :</p>
<p>Anyway, we talked for about an hour and fifteen minutes and the conversation flowed well. Apparently my enthusiasm gave him "warm fuzzy feelings," which is awesome. :D</p>