<p>For tommorrow afternoon. Long night of preperation tonight...I'm excited. (SCEA)</p>
<p>Wait, you're applying SCEA and they just scheduled your interview for 5 days before the results are supposed to come out?</p>
<p>Aren't the admissions people basically finished with their deliberations? I thought they were, but I guess not.</p>
<p>Anyway, good luck. Read the thread about interviews; they really aren't all that bad. My interviewer was a graduate from my school and was a very nice guy. So don't prepare too much, just basically know reasons why you love Yale, what types of ECs you're interested in continuing through college, and maybe a couple of your favorite authors. And be yourself! :)</p>
<p>Wow isn't that a little too late? My interviewer told me the portfolio thing was due Dec1. But I guess it's pretty flexible... GL</p>
<p>I think this is a good sign. Maybe they accepted you and are trying to attract you with the interview!</p>
<p>Somebody told me getting an interview at ALL was a good sign, and while I've dismissed that idea (the Yale website said so), they asked me if i knew if those with interviews tend to do better with admissions?</p>
<p>Does anybody know?</p>
<p>blueducky; read the sticky thread "RD Applicants Interview Advice". the only correlation between getting an interview and your chances is the number of available volunteer alumni who live in your area. </p>
<p>Don't know the actual breakdown as far as those offered admissions who got interviews. Interesting to find out however</p>
<p>yea, i was pretty sure interview reports were due on the first...so when i had my interview on monday i basically figured it wouldn't count...and i bombed it horribly...not really on purpose...i simply hadn't been expecting where the conversation led to and i thought of anything intelligent i could have said only after the conversation had already moved onto something else...which only made me feel worse during that part of the conversation...it was strange though, cuz he said he only had a half hour in the beginning but we ended up talking for an hour and ten mins and then only stopped cuz i had to attend a city council meeting for the election of the new mayor...i dont know y he would have extended the interview for so long for i am very sure it did not go well, i sounded like a blubbering idiot rather than an articulate yale prospect...anyways, good luck and hope it goes well, if not then just hope interview reports rly were due on the 1st :]</p>
<p>^ Well look on the bright side, if they were looking for diversity, at least "blubbering idiot" is more unique than "LD state class debater".</p>
<p>Probably more memorable too!</p>
<p>BlueDucky, hiding on CC while dodging me on AIM? </p>
<p>QQ</p>
<p>OneKingOneLife, you, sir, are made of win.</p>
<p>Hello SCEA result comes out on monday. interview scheduled tomorrow? what the....</p>
<p>What? Interview scheduled tomorrow? That seems really....unlikely. Either they just want to get more information on you, or the interview will affect you only minorly. Or maybe you're on the edge of acceptance and deferral and they need more to base you on.</p>
<p>I didn't get an interview because no one was in my area....I think. I live in the middle of nowhere in a big fat desert. Were they supposed to contact me (like Harvard)? or was I supposed to call them? And if I didn't get a call, does that mean they have no interviewers in my area?</p>
<p>Sorry, I'm thinking this is the wrong place to post this, but.......sorry =]</p>
<p>Interviews. don't. matter.</p>
<p>They only want to check to see if you smoke pot and/or swear every 2 secs. </p>
<p>I'm sure this won't make or break you.</p>
<p>I have one weird thought. Though I do hope that this contact reflects good luck for you. But I wonder, if an applicant were slotted for a deferral and had not had an EA interview whether Yale would be starting to prepared for the RD portion by offering an interview.</p>
<p>When you get your results Monday, you need to let us know. I am very curious what this had meant.</p>
<p>PS When D had her interview she was told Dec 1 the reports had to have been submitted so he could not see her as late as Nov 30. Then that week I recall hearing that the Dec 1 deadline had been shifted to Dec 5. I've heard nothing since.</p>
<p>Yeah, I tend to think interviews play an extremely minor role in the decisions process. I just had mine this Tuesday because of a paperwork mistake (Yale's fault).</p>
<p>i was told interviews account for approximately 1/5 of their decision.</p>
<p>ive actually had two interviews so i hope that helps a ton.</p>
<p>Yeah, I had mine on the 5th. I contacted my admissions officer who referred me to the local alumni guy around Thanksgiving since I still didn't have an interview and everyone else around me was already done with theirs. The dude told me that the deadline for interview reports was Dec1st, but they've extended it to Dec5th (not sure if it was for my interviewer, or for late interviews in general). Anyway, my interviewer told me that they don't receive your test scores or application, and she basically didn't have any questions to ask besides a cursory, conversational sort of "let me know about you". My interview lasted an hour but it was like 80% me asking questions. Pleasant, but not rigorous at all, so I really doubt it'd count for 20%. Don't know what it means though. :/</p>
<p>akv12--If someone said interviews count for 20% of Yale's decision, they don't know what they are talking about. They are nowhere near that important and can't play a significant role because Yale doesn't have the volunteer workforce to interview everyone.</p>
<p>its possible that this is not correct..although the interviewer actually told me this.</p>
<p>The interviewer is full of it. Not all interviewers are created equal. Some don't read the quarterly publications that interviewers receive from the admissions office or the interviewer guidelines. Some interviewers have participated in workshops with admissions officers and therefore have a better understanding of the system. There are lots of other things that would differentiate one interviewer's knowledge from another's.</p>
<p>I have NEVER heard that interviews count for 20% because I believe there is no percentage attached to the interview's weight. If there were, I'd put it more in the 2-5% range, unless it was an interview report that raised a serious red flag, in which case it could be significant and sink an applicant.</p>
<p>Interviews count as 20% of the decision? Haha, please. I would say less than 5%. 3% maybe. Probably closer to 0%.</p>