Devaluing the College Alumni Interview

Originally Published on December 28, 2017: Around this time every year, students get excited when they hear from an alum of a school to which they applied to schedule an interview, thinking it means their application is under strong consideration for admission. Likewise, students often get anxious when they don’t … 

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The Importance of the Alumni Interview: Tips for Success

Originally Published on October 17, 2017: Did you recently hear from an alumni interviewer asking you to meet in person or virtually? If so, you might be excited. You might be nervous. You might wonder if this means you’ve got a strong chance of earning admission. And you might be … 

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MIT Interview Process, Questions, and Tips

The Massachusetts Institute of Technology admitted 5.7% of Early Action applicants to the Class of 2027. Between the Early Action and Regular Decision rounds for the MIT Class of 2026, 3.96% of applicants got in. Last year’s record-low overall admission rate eclipsed the 4.03% of applicants who earned admission to … 

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Brown Suspends Alumni Interviewing

Have you been prepping for your Brown University alumni interview? If so, might we suggest using that time to bake a cake or shoot some hoops instead? And why? Because Brown University has opted to suspend alumni interviews. In light of the spiking COVID-19 pandemic, it seems logical that a … 

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College Interview Prep

The alumni interview is one of the least important components of the college admissions process. And so it always boggles our minds when folks who are not our clients come to us around this time every year desperately seeking interview prep. We’re not so surprised that they feel so anxious. … 

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College Interview Season

‘Tis the season for college interviews. Around this time every year, alumni interviewers are emailing, calling, and, yes, texting Early Decision and Early Action applicants to set up their interviews. So if you have an unread voicemail that’s been sitting on your cell phone for the last several days, you … 

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The Importance of College Interviews

The college interview can make or break one’s case for admission to highly selective colleges, right? If you read a bunch of articles online about the importance of the college interview, you might very well come away thinking that the interview is paramount to a student’s success in the admissions … 

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College Alumni Interviewers Often Overstate Their Influence

While the college alumni interview is one component of the admissions process to highly selective colleges, many parents and high school students overvalue its importance. And one key reason why so many folks overvalue the importance of the college alumni interview is because alumni often have a tendency to overstate … 

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The College Interview is Overrated

Much like Chandler Parsons, perhaps the NBA’s most overrated and overpaid player, the college interview is overrated. Now don’t get us wrong. Saying something offensive or cruel or inconsistent with your application can certainly derail your application to a highly selective school. But in our experience, students and particularly their … 

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Securing College Interviews

We don’t mean to be Debbie Downer, who interestingly was played on “SNL” by Dartmouth alumna Rachel Dratch. But students and parents who are not our clients have been emailing us some version of the following in recent days: “My son just landed an interview with Harvard. As this means the … 

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