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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Starting this fall the University is offering prospective students the option to submit a video testimonial in place of the traditional alumni interview as part of their application. The video ...

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 ...

On July 16, Penn announced that its 2025-26 undergraduate admissions process would no longer include conversations with alumni, sparking mixed reactions from members of the Penn Alumni Ambassador ...