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Top College Interview Policies

• Yale is the only Ivy that offers on-campus EVALUATIVE interviews.
• Harvard offers on-campus interviews, but they are not added to a student’s file.
• Neither Stanford nor MIT offers on-campus interviews.
• Columbia and Penn allow legacies (and they count parents OR grandparents as legacies in this sense) to interview on campus. [Read more]
  

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  Is the Interview Obsolete?

  Dartmouth announced last year that it would no longer offer on-campus interviews. Now Yale is the only Ivy that actually does an official evaluative on campus interview! These interviews are conducted by current Yale students at the admissions office. Harvard offers on campus interviews, but they are not added to a student’s file. Neither Stanford nor MIT offers on campus interviews.  Middlebury does offer on campus interviews from June – November, but stresses that they are not evaluative in nature.  Columbia and Penn allow legacies (and they count parents or grandparents as legacies in this sense) to interview on campus, but not the rest of the crowd. Keep in mind that just about all of these schools do offer alumni interviews once the student applies. [Read more]

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  Athletic Recruiting

  

  We’ve had so many questions about college recruiting lately we thought we’d bring you an interview we recently had with John Wolff.  John was recruited to play baseball at Harvard and went on to play professional baseball with the Chicago White Sox and the New York Mets!

  First, I would like to thank Mimi and Michele for asking me to share my thoughts on college athletics and the recruiting game. Having gone through this process myself and knowing what a major influence it had on my life, I certainly wish I had more access to detailed first-hand information when I was still in high school. To that end, I hope the readers of this blog find value in my experiences and learn from my successes and failures.

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