After filling out forms, writing essays and taking a leap of faith to apply to the University, there's one more step for many applicants: the off-campus alumni interview. Now that the most competitive ...

While 1999 Wharton graduate and alumni interviewer Andrew Ross has interviewed more than 50 prospective students over the past decade, he has faced a dilemma: hardly any of the students he has spoken ...

In February, then-high school senior Matt Sarafa posted a YouTube video recounting a disturbing interaction with his Brown alumni interviewer. Sarafa claimed that his alumni interviewer made racist ...

Want to hear more about alumni interviews gone wrong? Yes, of course you do. Seemingly everyone in the admissions realm has cringeworthy stories about graduates behaving badly in the presence of ...

Following the Supreme Court’s decision to strike down affirmative action in higher education admissions, Harvard has instructed alumni interviewers to not take an applicant’s race or ethnicity into ...

Many Georgia high school seniors aiming to attend select colleges will participate in alumni interviews in which a graduate of the prestigious university meets with them. Do these interviews matter? I ...

I am applying to several colleges this fall and I have been told some of the more elite schools will require an interview by an alumna or an alumnus. Can you share with me what kind of information ...

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Alumni interviews have for decades been part of the admissions process at elite private colleges. Their role has sometimes frustrated applicants, and left them guessing about strategies. Over the ...