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 ...

As a college-admissions expert, I know students often dread the alumni interview. I tell all my students to prepare answers for the first and last questions. But the middle of the interview should ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Alumni interviews for prospective students will not resume following their suspension at the outset of the COVID-19 pandemic, according to an email from the Office of College Admission sent to alumni ...

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 ...