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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

The Class of 2016 admission cycle, the first after the Office of Undergraduate Admission announced the permanent installation of alumni interviews, saw similar success for the program. A three-year ...

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 ...

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 ...

No matter how much I try to scrub my mind clean, the residual smudges of my college application process still resurface when I least expect them. Sometimes it’s at 3 a.m., waking up convinced I made a ...

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 ...